Edith Nesbit - Lewisham Nesbit was a regular lecturer and writer on socialism throughout the 1880s.
Edward Heath - Bexley For more than half of his life, Sir Edward Heath represented Bexley as its MP.
Emma Noble - Sidcup Glamour girl Emma Noble was born and brought up in Sidcup.
Enid Blyton - Beckenham Enid Blyton - regarded as the greatest, as well as the most prolific, children's author of all time - grew up in and around Beckenham.
Ernest Shackleton - Sydenham Intrepid explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been described as "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of the 27 men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost two years.
