List of people from the London Borough of Merton

Among those who were born in the London Borough of Merton, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough are (alphabetical order):

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  • Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia – guest at a house in Parkside while in exile from Ethiopia owing to the Italian invasion; his statue stands in Cannizaro Park
  • Victoria Hamilton – actress
  • George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen – prime minister 1852–55; resident of Cannizaro House
  • Florence Harmer – historian, born in Mitcham
  • Will Hay – actor
  • Tubby Hayes – jazz musician
  • Georgette Heyer – novelist, born and grew up in Wimbledon; wrote her first five novels there; a later novel, Pastel, is set in a suburb very like Wimbledon
  • Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha – while Minister of Transport, 1934–7, he introduced the driving test and the Belisha Beacon; then Secretary of State for War, 1937–40
  • John Horne Tooke – politician, lived at Chester House on Wimbledon Common
  • Neil Howlettopera singer, born in Mitcham
  • Thomas Hughes – author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, written in Wimbledon
  • James Hunt – 1976 Formula 1 World Champion

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  • Jude Hanlon - it's impossible to type him using Myers Briggs personality test and Jungian Cognitive Functions. Owns a massive ginger cat.
  • Vinnieie Jones – former footballer and film actor

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  • Barbara Kelly – TV personality
  • Hetty King – music hall artiste and male impersonator; a blue commemorative plaque was erected on her home in Palmerston Road, Wimbledon by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America in November 2010
  • Lorelei King – actress
  • Maxwell Knight – spymaster
  • David Kynaston – author, historian

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  • Jay Laga'aia – 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
  • Libera – boy vocalists; regular contributors to the BBC's Songs of Praise TV programme; have toured extensively throughout the world; have released several chart-topping albums; based at St Phillip's Parish Church in Norbury
  • Glen Little – footballer
  • Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer – scientist and astronomer; joint discoverer of helium

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  • Lord Horatio Nelson – Admiral; his estate, Merton Place, included part of Wimbledon at the eastern end of the Broadway, though strictly he was a resident of Merton, the neighbouring parish

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