List of people from Benenden

This is a list of people from Benenden, Kent, England.

Born in Benenden

• Aidan Crawley (1908–93), journalist and MP.
• John Grimston, (born 1951) British peer.
• Dora Honnywill (1870–1959), Olympic archer.
• Edward Leeds (died 1589) clergyman.
• Brian Moore (1932–2001), football commentator

Cricketers

• Edmund Hinkly (1817–1880), cricketer
• John Mayers (1801–65), cricketer.
• George Mills (1793–1865), cricketer.
• Richard Mills (1798–1882), cricketer.
• Stephen Southon (1806–1880), cricketer
• Charles Wenman (1797 – after 1841), cricketer.
• George Wenman 1805–37), cricketer.
• John Wenman (1803–77), cricketer.
• William Wenman (1832–1921), cricketer

People connected with Benenden

• Anthony Barker (1880–1963), artist, lived in Benenden.
• Anthony Beattie (1944–), civil servant, lives in Benenden.
• Jo Brand (1957–), comedian, lived in Benenden as a child.
• Kitty Fisher (d 1767), courtesan, lived in Benenden.
• Andrew Gardner (1932–1999), newsreader, lived in Benenden.
• Lady Victoria Hervey (born 1976), an English model, taught at Benenden School.
• Collingwood Ingram (1880–1981), ornithologist and horticulturalist, lived in Benenden.
• George Miles (1913–88), organist, was curate of St. George's Church, Benenden 1919–22.
• Charles Marriott Oldrid Scott (1880–1952), architect, worked on worked on Benenden School Hall in 1938
• James Tinling (1900–83), partner in Power Jets Ltd, resided in Benenden at the time of his death.
• Philip Turbett (1961–), musician and teacher, taught at Benenden School.

See also

• List of people educated at Benenden School