The following is a list of those people who were either born or live(d) in Royal Tunbridge Wells, or made some important contribution to the town. As a spa town Royal Tunbridge Wells was a popular resort for the upper classes, including members of the British royal family.
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Luke Baldwin (born 1990), rugby player Gary Barden (born 1955), musician The Reverend Thomas Bayes (1702–1761), mathematician, who lived in Ashton Lodge Will Bayley (born 1988), paralympian C. A. Bayly (1945–2015), historian Jeff Beck (1944–2023), musician Rachel Beer (1858–1927), newspaper editor Compton Bennett (1900–1974), film director Golding Bird (1814–1854), medical writer Douglas Booth (born 1992), actor and musician Frank W. Boreham (1871–1959), Baptist preacher Jo Brand (born 1957), comedian William Thomas Brande (1788–1866), chemist Gary Brazil (born 1962), football player Christopher Brown (born 1943), British composer Nick Brown (born 1950), politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), author Thomas Harrison Burder (1789–1843), physician and author Peter Burton (1924–2007), physicist, philosopher, logician Ballard Berkeley , British actor C
John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll (1845–1914), Governor General of Canada Oliver Chris (born 1978), actor George Cohen (born 1939), football player Paul Condon, Baron Condon (born 1947), police commissioner Emma Corrin (born 1995), actress Martin Corry (born 1973), rugby player The Reverend Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869–1952), missionary and writer Sidney Elisabeth Croskery (1901–1990), doctor Richard Cumberland (1732–1811), dramatist Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887–1963), military officer D
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G Thomas Field Gibson (1803–1889), Tunbridge Wells improvement commissioner and Royal Commissioner for the Great Exhibition of 1851 Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe , artist and educator Jilly Goolden (born 1956), television personality Léon Goossens (1897–1988), oboist Edward Meyrick Goulburn (1818–1897), clergyman and writer ↑ David Gower (born 1957), cricketer Pauline Gower (1910–1947) pilot, commandant of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary in Second World War Sir Robert Gower , MP (1880–1953) Sarah Grand (1854–1943), suffragist and "New Woman" writer Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), theatrical director H J L M N O P R S Sir David Lionel Salomons (1851–1925), scientist Sarah Sands (born 1961), journalist Henry Albert Seymour (1861–1938), secularist, anarchist and gramophone pioneer Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott (1852–1920), author Dominic Sherwood (born 1990), actor Slaves , musical band Colin Smart (born 1950), rugby player Horace Smith (1779–1849), poet and novelist Jamie Spence (born 1963), golfer Sir Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt (1811–1888), naval officer The Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1835–1926), zoologist Gary A. Stevens (born 1962), footballer Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1863–1941), photographer T V W Z References
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