- Tom Hood
Tom Hood (January 19, 1835 - November 20, 1874), English humorist, son of the poet Thomas Hood, was born at Lake House, Leytonstone Borough of Wanstead & Woodford strip After attending University College School and Louth Grammar School he entered Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1853, where he passed all the examinations for the degree of BA., but did not graduate. At Oxford he wrote his "Farewell to the Swallows" (1853) and "Pen and Pencil Pictures" (1857). - Colin Kazim-Richards
Colin Kazim-Richards is a professional footballer for who plays for Turkish Fenerbahçe SK in the Turkcell Super League. His father is of Antiguan descent, and his mother is Turkish Cypriot. The Turkish forename "Kâzım" was intended to be a middle name, which would have rendered his full name 'Colin Kazim Richards', but due to an error, he was registered as 'Colin Kazim-Richards'. - Steve Harris
Stephen Percy Harris (born March 12, 1956 in Leytonstone, London, England) is the bassist and primary composer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. In addition, he plays keyboards, sings backing vocals, and is the leader and sole owner of the band. He founded the band as a teenager in 1975. Along with Dave Murray, they are the only members of the band that have appeared on all of the band's albums, and Harris is the only member to remain in the band throughout its duration. - Damon Albarn
Damon Albarn, (born March 23, 1968 in Leytonstone, London), is an English singer-songwriter who gained fame as the lead singer of rock band Blur. Though Blur has not disbanded, of late Albarn has been more active as a member of Gorillaz and The Good, the Bad and the Queen project. - David Bailey
David Bailey CBE (born January 2, 1938 in Leytonstone, London) is a celebrated and famous English photographer. - Talvin Singh
Talvin Singh (Matharoo) (born in 1970 in Leytonstone, London, England) is a British DJ and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of classical Indian music and drum n bass. Talvin Singh is generally considered involved with an electronica sub genre called Asian Underground. Singh grew up in Leytonstone and began playing the tabla, breakdancing and listening to punk rock as a child. - John Still
John Leonard Still (born April 24, 1950 in West Ham, London) is an English former footballer and current football club manager. He is currently in charge at Dagenham & Redbridge. Still joined Leyton Orient as a junior, signing as an amateur for them in May 1967. He made his league debut the following season, but that was his only league appearance and he moved into non-league football with Bishop's Stortford, Ilford and Dagenham. - Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock Kbe
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13 1899 – April 29 1980) was a highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. He directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of talkies, to the colour era. Hitchcock was among the most consistently successful and publicly recognizable directors in the world during his lifetime, … - John Drinkwater
John Drinkwater (June 1 1882 - March 25 1937) was an English poet and dramatist. He was born in Leytonstone, London, and worked as an insurance clerk. In the period immediately before the First World War, he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke and others. In 1918, he scored his first major success with his play, "Abraham Lincoln". He followed it up with other plays in a similar vein, … - Graham Gooch
Graham Alan Gooch, OBE (born July 23 1953) is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation. Gooch was born in Whipps Cross Hospital, Leytonstone, in East London. Gooch played first-class cricket regularly between 1973 and 1997. His debut in Test cricket came in 1975 against Australia, and was marked with a 'pair'. He scored 6 and 31 in the next game of the series, and was dropped from the side. - James Foster
James Savin Foster (born 15 April 1980 in Leytonstone, London) is an English cricketer, a wicket-keeper who played seven Tests and 11 One-Day Internationals in 2001/02 and 2002/03. Rather too many mistakes with the gloves and rather too few runs with the bat meant that he was never completely secure in his place, on one occasion suffering the indignity of seeing his place behind the stumps taken by Marcus Trescothick in an ODI against New Zealand. - Paul Ross
Paul John Ross (born "John Ross", December 31, 1956 in Leytonstone, London) is an English journalist, television editor, and media personality. He is the elder brother of presenter Jonathan Ross and is also an up and coming film reviewer. He has also been presenting Most Haunted Live from May 2006 onwards. - Justin Hoyte
Justin Raymond Hoyte (born November 20, 1984 in Leytonstone, London) is an English football player who currently plays for Arsenal. - Morell MacKenzie
Sir Morell Mackenzie (July 7 1837 - February 3, 1892) was a British physician, one of the pioneers of laryngology in the United Kingdom. Morell Mackenzie was born at Leytonstone, Essex, England on July 7, 1837. He was the son of Stephen Mackenzie, a general practitioner and surgeon. After going through the medical course at the London Hospital and becoming a member to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1858, he studied abroad in Paris, … - Don Henderson
Don Henderson (10 November, 1932 - 22 June, 1997) was an English actor, from Leytonstone, London, whose film and TV work covered many years but will be best remembered for his role as the fictional detective George Bulman. This character featured in three TV series "The XYY Man" in the mid-1970s; the later "Strangers" that saw Bulman rise from Detective Sergeant to Detective Chief Inspector and, in 1985, … - Fanny Cradock
Fanny Cradock (February 26 1909 - December 27 1994) born Phyllis Nan Pechey, in Apthorp House, Leytonstone, London, was a British writer, restaurant critic and television cook who mostly worked with John "Johnnie" Cradock, whose surname she adopted long before they married. She was the daughter of novelist and lyricist Archibald Thomas Pechey. - Curtis Davies
Curtis Eugene Davies (born March 15, 1985 in Leytonstone, London) is an English professional footballer who plays as a central defender. He is currently the captain of West Bromwich Albion. - Albert Chevallier Tayler
Albert Chevallier Tayler (b. 1862 in Leytonstone, Essex - d. 1925) is an important English artist who specialized in portrait and genre painting, but was also involved in the plein air methods of the Newlyn School. He was a member of the British Royal Academy of Painters, and he studied at Heatherley's School of Art, Royal Academy Schools and with avant gard painters in Paris. - Ken Farnes
Kenneth Farnes (July 8, 1911 - October 20, 1941) was an English cricketer. He played in 15 Tests from 1934 to 1939. Farnes was born in Leytonstone, Essex, and played his first first-class cricket for Essex in 1930, aged only 19. He took 5-36 in his second county match against Kent. He studied at Cambridge University, playing cricket in the University side for three years while also continuing to play for Essex. After graduating, he became a teacher at Worksop College, … - Sydney Horler
Sydney Horler (July 18, 1888 - October 27, 1954) was a prolific British novelist specialising in thrillers. Born in Leytonstone, London and was educated at Redcliffe School and Colston School in Bristol. His first job was with Western Daily Press and Allied Newspapers in Bristol started in 1905. This lasted until 1911 when he left to become a special writer on the staff of Edward Hulton and Co. in Manchester. - Jammer
Jammer (also known as The Murkle Man) is a record producer, rapper and MC from Leytonstone, East London, associated with the grime movement. Jammer's most memorable song was the club favourite "The Merkle Man", the first well-known track to feature his own vocals. Prior to being an MC, he was mainly a producer, working for Jahmek the World Productions, a small collective of producers and MCs from the UK urban scene, mainly genres such as 2-step, 4x4, … - Joanne Fenn
Joanne Fenn née Mersh, (born October 19, 1974 in Leytonstone, London) is an English middle distance runner. - Keith Greene
Keith Greene (born January 5, 1938 in Leytonstone, London) is a former Formula One driver from England. He participated in 5 grands prix, debuting on July 18, 1959. He scored no championship points. After retiring from driving, Greene became a team manager in F1 and sports car racing. - Angela Watkinson
Angela Eileen Watkinson (born 18 November, 1941, Leytonstone) is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Upminster, and was first elected in 2001, beating Keith Darvill who had taken the seat from the Conservatives in 1997. She was re-elected with an increased majority in 2005. She lives in Wickford, Essex and is a member and elder of the United Reformed Church. - Billy Williams
Billy Williams (1906 - 1994) was a footballer. He was born in Leytonstone. He became the youngest ever professional at 15 years of age, when in 1921 he signed for West Ham United from Fairbairn House. The forward made 44 appearances and scored 9 goals for West Ham before joining Chelsea in 1927. - Ernie Gregory
Ernie Gregory (born November 10 1921 in Stratford, London) is an English former footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for West Ham United. Gregory played for West Ham Boys, and was noticed by Charlie Paynter during an English Trophy Final against Preston North End at Upton Park. He joined the groundstaff at West Ham United in 1936. He won an Isthmian League Championship medal with Leytonstone as an amateur, … - Graham Saville
Graham John Saville (born 5 February 1944) is a former English cricketer of the 1960s and 1970s. His main career was with Essex, whom he represented on 170 occasions at first-class or List A level, though he also turned out twice for Minor Counties in first-class games and twice for Norfolk in the Gillette Cup. He was born in Leytonstone, Essex, and is the cousin of Graham Gooch. - Jack Tresadern
John Tresadern (born September 26, 1890 in Leytonstone, died December 26, 1959 in Tonbridge) was an English professional footballer and football manager. He played twice for the England national side. - Danny Clapton
Daniel Robert "Danny" Clapton was an English footballer. Born in Stepney, London, Clapton first started out as an amateur with Leytonstone before joining Arsenal in August 1953. He made his debut in a 1-0 win over Chelsea on December 25, 1954, and by the end of the 1954-55 he was Arsenal's first choice right-winger, taking Arthur Milton's place. He became a near ever-present for Arsenal for the next four seasons (aside from 1957-58, … - Eric Ashby Baron Ashby
Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby FRS (24 August 1904 - 22 October 1992) was a British botanist and educator. Born in Leytonstone in Essex, he was educated at the Royal College of Science, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He was then demonstrator at the Imperial College from 1926 to 1929. In 1929, he received a Commonwealth Fellowship of the University of Chicago. - Vic Groves
Victor George "Vic" Groves (born November 5, 1932) is an English former footballer. Born in Stepney, London, Groves started his career at east London non-league clubs Leytonstone and Walthamstow Avenue, and then briefly as an amateur for Tottenham Hotspur before signing professional forms with Leyton Orient in 1954. Playing as an inside forward, his regular goalscoring for Orient soon attracted the attention of Arsenal, who signed him in November 1955 for £23,000, … - Charlie McGahey
Charles Percy McGahey (born 12 February 1871, Stepney, London, England; died 10 January 1935 in Whipps Cross, Leytonstone, Essex, England) was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Essex between 1894 and 1921. McGahey also played for London County between 1901 and 1904 and was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1902. McGahey played two Test matches for England during Archie MacLaren's tour of Australia in 1901-02. - Muriel Lester
Muriel Lester (December 1885-February 11 1968) was born in Leytonstone in East London and grew up at Loughton, where she was a member of the Union Church. She was a social reformer, pacifist and nonconformist. As a Baptist, she was baptized in 1898, at 15. She was responsible, along with her sister Doris, for Kingsley Hall, named after her brother who died young, aged 26. - John Henry Gurney
John Henry Gurney (July 4, 1819 - April 20, 1890) was an English banker and amateur ornithologist. Gurney was the only son of Joseph John Gurney of Earlham Hall, Norfolk. At the age of ten he was sent to a private tutor at Leytonstone near the Epping Forest, where he met Henry Doubleday, and commenced his first natural history collection. From there he moved to the Friends' School at Tottenham, and whilst there met William Yarrell. - C. A. G. Russell
Charles Albert George "Jack" Russell (erroneously written during his playing career as Albert Charles Russell) (born October 7, 1887, Leyton, Essex, England; died March 23, 1961, Whipps Cross, Leytonstone, Essex, England) was one of the leading batsmen in county cricket during the period after World War I. Never regarded as an attractive batsman, Russell's main strength was his leg-side play, … - Jackie Wood
Edward John "Jackie" Wood (born 23 October 1919 in Canning Town, London, died 1993) was an English footballer who played as an outside left. Wood played amateur football with Leytonstone, and once for England, before signing pro with West Ham United in 1937. His debut came with a 0-4 mauling of Manchester United in the old Second Division on 23 February 1938. He made ten appearances for the Hammers before the outbreak of World War II, … - Muazam Ali
Syed Muazam Ali (born October 23, 1979) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who played for Durham between 1999 and 2000. He was born in Leytonstone. Ali made his debut for Durham in List A cricket during the 1999 season, having played Second XI cricket since 1997, for the second elevens of Durham and Essex. Ali participated in the County Championship during 2000, however, with an average of just 5 runs, … - Tray Grinter
Trayton Golding Grinter was a first class cricketer who played 8 matches for Essex County Cricket Club between 1909 and 1921. He was born on December 12, 1885 in Leytonstone, Essex and died on April 21, 1966 in Frinton-on-Sea. A right handed batsman, he scored 201 runs at 16.75 with a highest score of 49*. He was handicapped by a war wound to his left arm but still recorded his 100th century in club cricket when he made 141 for Wanstead against Woodford Wells in 1924. - M. G. Scroggie
Marcus Graham Scroggie, B.Sc., F.I.E.E., (1901 - 1989) was a British technical author active in the fields of radio and electronics. He was born in Leytonstone, Essex in 1901 and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1922. He gained practical experience, in the still emerging technologies of radio and electronics, at Bruce Peebles Ltd and Creed Telegraph, before moving to Burndept Wireless Co - one of the original constituents of the pre-Reith British Broadcasting Company. - David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE (pronounced) (born 2 May 1975) is an English professional football (soccer) midfielder who plays for Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy. He is also currently a member of the England national team. He was twice chosen runner-up for FIFA World Player of the Year, and as recently as 2004 was the world's highest-paid footballer. He was Google's most searched of all sports topics in both 2003 and 2004.
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