People associated with Stoke Newington

• Lady Mary Abney, inherited the manor and commissioned the first map-based survey.
• William Allen, quaker, philanthropist, scientist and abolitionist - lived in Stoke Newington.
• Anna Lætitia Barbauld, writer and poet of the Victorian era, lived at 113 Stoke Newington Church Street.
• Wynne Edwin Baxter, Coroner for several of the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 died at his home in Church Street in 1920.
• Bad Manners come from Stoke Newington. The band were formed at Woodberry Down comprehensive school in 1976.
• 80's pop star Buster Bloodvessel lived on Batley Road.
• Mark 'Bedders' Bedford, bass player with Madness - lives in Stoke Newington.
• Violet Berlin, television presenter - lives in Stoke Newington with partner Gareth 'Gaz Top' Jones.
• Marc Bolan (born, Mark Feld), musician - lived on Stoke Newington Common until age 15.
• William Booth and his wife Catherine, founders of The Salvation Army, are buried in Abney Park Cemetery.
• Eric Bristow, retired darts player, 5 times world professional darts champion, born in Stoke Newington.
• Asa Butterfield, child actor, goes to Stoke Newington Middle School, lives in Islington.
• Clem Cattini, musician - born in Stoke Newington.
• Joseph Conrad, writer - lived in Stoke Newington.
• Sir Horace Cutler, politician - born in the district.
• Elton Dean, experimental jazz saxophonist from Bluesology lived in Stoke Newington.
• John Diamond, journalist and radio presenter - born in Stoke Newington.
• Daniel Defoe, writer - born and lived on Church Street. His gravestone can be seen in the Hackney Museum.
• DJ Dextrous, Ivor Novello & BAFTA awards winning Producer/DJ - born in Stoke Newington.
• Rupert Evans, film and theatre actor lived in Stoke Newington.
• Paloma Faith, singer and actress- raised in Stoke Newington.
• Charles Fleetwood, Parliamentary General during the English Civil War, later Lord Deputy of Ireland and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces lived in Stoke Newington.
• Paul Foot, political activist and writer - born in Palestine, lived in Stoke Newington.
• Jonathan Freedland, journalist and author - lives in Stoke Newington.
• Joseph Jackson Fuller, Jamaican missionary to pre-colonial West Africa
• Samuel Hoare, Quaker and abolitionist lived in Paradise Row, Stoke Newington.
• John Howard, founding father of the prison reform movement, lived in Stoke Newington.
• Hugh Gater Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Putney, representative 1958–1965 of the Stoke Newington & Hackney constituency on the London County Council.
• Gareth Jones, aka Gaz Top, TV presenter and producer - lives in Stoke Newington.
• Stewart Lee, comedian and writer - lives in Stoke Newington.
• Michael Levy, Baron Levy, impresario and political fund raiser - born in Stoke Newington.
• Bernard Lewis, foremost historian of Islam and the Middle East, born in 1916 in Stoke Newington.
• Joseph Jackson Lister, amateur opticist and physicist, inventor of the modern microscope and the father of Joseph Lister - born in Stoke Newington.
• Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London was the representative for Stoke Newington on the Greater London Council between 1977 - 1981.
• Zöe Lucker, actress in Holbyblue & Footballers Wives lives in Stoke Newington.
• Thomas Manton, appointed minister of St Mary's Church 1644/5; a forthright defender of Reformed principles and one of Oliver Cromwell's chaplains
• Jean Marsh, actress and writer for television, co-creator of Upstairs, Downstairs.
• Kevin MacNeil, Hebridean-born novelist, poet and playwright, lives in Stoke Newington.
• Warren Mitchell, actor - born in the district.
• Samuel Morley MP, businessman, statesman, philanthropist and abolitionist - lived in Stoke Newington.
• David Farren, bassist with Bad Manners was born in Stoke Newington.
• Robert Oakeshott, champion of worker co-operatives. Obituary in The Economist. Funeral in St. Mary's Old Church, on 29th June, 2011.
• David O'Leary, football manager and Arsenal FC appearance record holder - born in Stoke Newington.
• Alexei Sayle, comedian - wrote a famous stand up sketch about Stoke Newington.
• Tjinder Singh, lead singer of Cornershop, currently lives in Stoke Newington.
• Chris Singleton, the Irish singer-songwriter, currently lives in Stoke Newington; his 'Twisted City' album cover features a girl walking in Abney Park Cemetery.
• James Richardson Spensley, doctor, Genoa CFC footballer, manager, Scout Leader and medic was born in 1867 in Stoke Newington.
• James Stephen, slavery abolitionist - his father moved the family home to Stoke Newington in 1774.
• Edgar Allan Poe, writer - attended Manor School on Church Street around 1820. (His stay in the area provides the background for the popular 2004 novel, The American Boy, by Andrew Taylor). His story "William Wilson" featured a character based on the school's headmaster Rev Dr Bransbury.
• Isaac Watts, theologian, logician and hymnwriter - lived and died at Abney House.
• Barbara Windsor, actress in EastEnders & the Carry On films - born in Shoreditch but grew up around Amhurst Road and lived in Yoakley Road.
• Joseph Woods, Quaker, botanist and architect, son of a founding abolitionist by the same name.
• Fyfe Dangerfield, lead singer of Guillemots lives in Stoke Newington
• Andrew Ranken, drummer in The Pogues
• Actor Jack Guinness, from drama 'London Fields' lives near Church Street
• Louis Alphonso (Louis Cook), guitarist with Bad Manners, was born in the district.
• Rocker Josh Hayward, of The Darkness, lives in Stoke Newington
• Drummer, Brian Tuitt, of Bad Manners went to school in Stoke Newington.
• Winston Bazoomies (Alan Sayag) of Bad Manners was born and still lives in Stoke Newington.
• Paul Hyman, trumpet player with Bad Manners, was born in Stoke Newington.