- Brian Paddick
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Leonard Paddick (born April 24, 1958 in Balham) is a senior officer in the Metropolitan Police in London. He is the United Kingdom's most senior openly gay police officer. - Keith Hill
Trevor Keith Hill, known as Keith Hill, (born 28 July 1943, Leicester) is a politician in the United Kingdom who has served in a variety of Government roles as a Whip and a junior minister. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Streatham, where he was first elected in 1992. - Captain Sensible
Captain Sensible (born Raymond Burns, 24 April, 1954) is a singer and guitarist (and sometimes bassist) who grew up in Croydon, England and founded the punk rock band The Damned in 1976. After leaving the band, he reinvented himself as an (alternative) pop singer with a rebellious, self-conscious image. His signature headwear is a red beret. - John Sullivan
John Sullivan OBE (born December 23 1946 in Balham, London,England), is the writer of several British sitcoms including the immensely popular "Only Fools and Horses" as well as "Citizen Smith", "Dear John", "Just Good Friends", "Roger Roger", and "The Green Green Grass". In addition, he also wrote the comedy drama series "Micawber" for ITV. John also co-writes many comedies including "Heartburn Hotel". - Ainsley Harriott
Ainsley Harriott (born February 28 1957) is a British celebrity chef. His most well-known role is perhaps that of presenting the quick-fire cookery programme "Ready Steady Cook". Harriott was born in Balham in south London. Harriott is married to former costume designer, Clare Fellows. They have two children and a dog called Oscar. Clare is the sister of the creator of "John Shuttleworth" and "Jilted John", Graham Fellows. - Art Malik
Art Malik (born as Athar Ul-Haque Malik on November 13, 1952) is a Pakistani-born British actor. - Fred Harris
Frederic Walter Harris (6 March 1915 - 4 January 1979, Kenya) was a British politician and businessman. He was Conservative Member of Parliament in Croydon between 1948 and 1970. Fred Harris was born in Balham, South London and educated at Belmont College, Streatham. After working for a period in local government, he set up his own business with money invested by Sir Sidney Marshall. Marshall's Malted Milk was set up in Clapham but soon moved to Croydon. - Dee C. Lee
Dee C. Lee (born Diane Catherine Sealey, 6 June 1961, Balham, South London) is an English singer. Lee was a backing vocalist for the pop group Wham! in the early 1980s, but she soon left the group to join Paul Weller's new band, The Style Council. She was married to Weller (but now divorced), and they have two children, Nathaniel and Leah. The Style Council were never as commercially successful as Weller's earlier band, The Jam. - Rodney Ackland
Rodney Ackland (May 181908 - December 6 1991), born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, died in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey. Ackland was an English playwright, actor, theatre director and screenwriter, educated at Balham Grammar School in London. In his 16th year he made his first stage appearance at the Gate Theatre Studio, playing Medvedieff in "The Lower Depths". Studied for the stage at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. - Percy Fender
Percy George Herbert Fender (born 22 August 1892 in Balham, London, died 15 June 1985 in Exeter, Devon) was an English all-round cricketer who played 13 Tests for England. Fender began his first-class career with Sussex. He made his debut in 1910, but achieved little at the club and in 1914 moved to Surrey, where he was to remain for the rest of his time in the game. He took 84 wickets that season helping Surrey to win the title, … - Mike Ketley
Keyboard player and singer Mike Ketley (born 1 October 1947 in Balham, London) started out in Bognor Regis band, The Soundtracks. In 1962, he joined Johnny Devlin & The Detours and later was a member of Beau Brummell & The Noblemen with Bryan Stevens. In 1966, Ketley and Stevens formed a new group, The Motivation, which evolved, with various line up changes, through The Penny Peeps and Gethsemane. - Freda Corbet
Freda Künzlen Corbet was a British Labour politician. Born Freda Mansell, she was educated at Wimbledon County School and University College, London. She became a teacher, lecturer and a barrister. She was married and widowed and later re-married Ian McIvor Campbell. Corbet became active in the Labour movement, serving as secretary of the Balham and Tooting Independent Labour Party. - Geoffrey McGivern
Geoffrey McGivern (b. England 1952) is an English actor in film, radio, stage and television. He was born in Balham, South London and grew up in York. There he attended Archbishop Holgate's School, where he was made Head Boy. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was involved in the renowned Footlights society and the Marlowe Society. - Barry Cole
Barry Cole (born 1936, Balham, South London) is a British poet. Apart from two years (1970-1972) as Northern Arts Fellow in Literature at the universities of Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and two years (1955-1957) in the RAF as a National Serviceman, he worked until 1995 as an editor at the Central Office of Information, and is now a freelance editor and writer. He has published seven collections of poems and four novels. His poems appear in more than a dozen anthologies, … - John Leonard Dawson
John Leonard Dawson MS, FRCS, CVO (1932-1999) was the Serjeant Surgeon to the Royal Household of the United Kingdom. Born in Leicester, in 1932. He graduated from King's College in 1955 and after training at St James’s Hospital, Balham, and at Harvard he was appointed as a consultant surgeon at King's College Hospital where he studied the causes of postoperative kidney failure and liver disease. He pioneered surgery techniques, including radical tumour resection, … - Brian Croudy
Brian Croudy was born on December 31, 1936 at Balham, London. His early life was spent in Putney and he was educated at Salesian College, Battersea. After three years National Service in the R.A.F., he joined London Transport and spent the next thirty years there. He took up cricket statistics for something to do in the evenings and his first purchase was Test Form at a Glance by A.A.Thomas. - Julius Amedume
Julius Amedume (born 1977) is a United Kingdom British Film director, CEO and majority shareholder of worldwide production company Amedume Films. Amedume was born in Balham, South West London. - John Balham
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Healey Willan, CC (October 12, 1880 - February 16, 1968) was a Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and piano. He is best known for his religious music. He was born in Balham, London and emigrated to Canada in 1913 to become the head of the theory department at the Canadian Conservatory of Music (now the Royal Conservatory of Music) in Toronto. - Jimmy Hill
Jimmy Hill (James William Thomas Hill) (born July 22, 1928 in Balham, London and currently resident in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex) is an English football personality. His career has taken in virtually every role in football, including player, union leader, coach, manager, director, chairman, television executive, presenter, analyst and even match official. - Mark Thomas
Mark Clifford Thomas (born 11 April, 1963) is an English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from south London. He first came to light as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" in the late 1980s. He is best known for political stunts on his show, "The Mark Thomas Comedy Product" on Channel 4. - Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Rutherford DBE (11 May 1892-22 May 1972) was an English Academy Award-winning character actress who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit", and Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest". - Alan Knight
Alan Edward Knight MBE (born 3 July 1961 in Balham, London) is a former English footballer. He holds the record for the most appearances for a single club by a goalkeeper, having played 801 games (683 in the league) for Portsmouth F.C. between 1978 and 2000; this superseded Peter Bonetti's record of 600 goalkeeping appearances for Chelsea. In addition to his goalkeeping record, Knight is the second-longest serving Portsmouth player of all time behind Jimmy Dickinson, … - Junior Mendes
Junior Albert Mendes (born September 15, 1976) is a professional footballer with League 2 side Notts County. - David Smith
David Mark Smith (born January 9, 1956, Balham, London) is a former English cricketer who played in 2 Tests and 2 ODIs from 1986 to 1990. - Johnny Kidd
Johnny Kidd (born September 20, 1955) is the ring name a British professional wrestler best known for his work during what was known as the Golden Era of British Wrestling. - Derek Fowlds
Derek Fowlds (born 2 September 1937 in Balham, London) is an English actor. Derek Fowlds had appeared in minor British films before he became familiar to British television viewers as "Mr Derek" in the children's series "The Basil Brush Show" (replacing Rodney Bewes as presenter of the show). Probably his most famous role, however, was that of Bernard Woolley in "Yes Minister" and its sequel, "Yes, Prime Minister", … - Chris Balham
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im cool if u r, if u aint den i aint datz me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wanna no more den ask! - Malcolm Tucker
I'm me. I was born under a dark moon on a chill winters night as the wind was howling and a gale picked up from over yonder. Then I grew up till I became the age I am now. - Jeremy
Yes, that's right, I'm Jeremy (informally 'Jez') a writer and sometime artist perhaps best-known these days as the author of Number One in Heaven (left) - the bible of pop's dead - out now from Penguin and shortly Chicago Review Press in the US (please check it out via the former's website). My earlier career took in a spell as a writer/associate producer on the BBC's Never Mind the Buzzcocks and has since seen many credits in TV/publishing. - Derek Warner
I'm OK, thank you. - Olivia
a mouse [they say]. - Laura Weller
No, its not me who's having a baby its my Sister!!!kittens are as far as im ready to go right now so dont worry, there will not be a little Laura just yet. - Tom
My names Tom, i woz born in Bangkok, Thailand, but i have lived most of my life in Balham, South London. At the moment, i'm studying Foundation Art & Design Media, specializing in Film. Next year i hope to go on a study BA Film Production. My student house is Blue and its 5 mins from the town centre and 5 mins from the beach, so its not a bad place to be. - De-Relle Mustafa
15 m frm london support manchester united i am going into my last year of school year 11 of Carshalton Boys Sports College, msg mi if ya wanna know more.
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