Wimbledon, London

Wimbledon is a suburb of London, part of the London Borough of Merton seven miles (11.3 km), southwest of London's centre at Charing Cross.

Famous residents past and present

• William Wilberforce - 19th century anti-slavery campaigner
• Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham - Lord Chancellor
• Henry Dundas - cabinet minister
• Joseph Bazalgette - civil engineer; his creation of the sewer network for central London eliminated the incidence of cholera epidemics
• Hugh Dowding - commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain.
• Frederick Marryat - novelist
• Lord Baden-Powell - founder of the Scout movement; wrote Scouting for Boys while staying at the windmill on Wimbledon Common
• Thomas Hughes - author of Tom Brown's Schooldays which was written in Wimbledon
• John William Godward - painter
• Ford Madox Ford - novelist
• Robert Graves - poet
• Richard Briers - actor
• Don Lang - Britain's answer to Bill Haley; with his band, a mainstay of Britain's first television rock and roll programme Six-Five Special
• June Whitfield - actress
• Annette Crosbie - actress
• Raymond Briggs - cartoonist
• Oliver Reed - actor