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List of people from the London Borough of Merton

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The following is a list of people who were born in the London Borough of Merton, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough (in 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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  • 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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