•
Roman Abramovich,
Russian oligarch and former owner of
Chelsea FC •
Matthew Arnold, poet and critic •
Tony Curtis, actor, had a house here when he was filming
The Persuaders! in the early 1970s. •
Blake Edwards and
Julie Andrews, film director and his actress wife, lived here for a few years in the early 1970s after their departure from Hollywood •
George II, King of the Hellenes, bought a lease on a house at No. 45 shortly before his return to Greece in 1946 •
Mick Jagger and
Marianne Faithfull, pop musicians, lived here in 1966-67 •
Nigella Lawson, celebrity chef and food writer; daughter of Conservative former Cabinet Minister
Nigel Lawson • Sir
John Liddell, doctor and director-general of the
Royal Navy medical department, lived at No. 72 until his death in 1868 •
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, American-born violinist and conductor •
Edward Ford, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, lived at No. 16 during the 1950s •
Margaret Thatcher, former British Conservative Prime Minister, lived at No. 73 until shortly before her death in 2013 •
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, had her headquarters at No. 77 during the
Second World War • Major Conrad Norman, Senior Gunnery Officer Royal Artillery Woolwich, Dunkirk survivor, officer in charge of British coastal gun emplacements in the Second World War, lived at No. 56 from 1946 until 1951 •
Gideon Mantell, an obstetrician, geologist, and palaeontologist, whose attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of the Iguanodon began the scientific discovery of dinosaurs, lived until his death at No. 19. •
Tony Fernandes, Malaysian businessman and founder of
Tune Group and former owner of
Queens Park Rangers FC •
W H Elliott, a broadcaster on religious matters for the
BBC, and known as "the Radio Chaplain", was vicar of St Michael's in the mid-20th century. ==Footnotes and References==