Putney

:This is an article about the place in London. For other uses of the name, see Putney (disambiguation).

Famous residents

• Algernon Swinburne the poet
• Theodore Watts, who looked after Swinburne
• Constance Garnett, translator of War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, and other Russian literature.
• Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf grew up in Putney
• Edvard Benes, the second President of Czechoslovakia, lived in Gwendolen Avenue during his exile in London from October 1938 to the end of World War II
• Clement Attlee was born, brought up and cremated in Putney.
• Edward Gibbon, historian, was born in Putney, and gave his name to the local Telephone Exchange.
• J. R. Ackerley, author and literary editor of The Listener lived at Star and Garter Mansions from 1944 until his death until 1967