Famous people from Hackney

Before I moved to Fulham, I lived in Hackney in East London, where I was born.

There are a number of famous people who were also born in Hackney:

• Marc Bolan, the lead singer of T. Rex,
• Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe
• The playwright, Harold Pinter
• Jessica Tandy, who starred in Driving Miss Daisy (a film I like)
• Tony Robinson (aka Baldrick)
• Astronomer, Edmond Halley who named Halley’s Comet
• TV personality, Jeremy Beadle
• Businessman, Sir John Harvey Jones
• Darts champion, Eric Bristow
• Dennis Norden, the radio and TV personality

Barbara Windsor moved to Hackney when she was a small girl and Jimmy Choo moved there to study shoe design. Even Alfred Hitchcock began his film career in Hackney.

Anyhow, it's years since was there and I’m now a Fulhamite....