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- This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, the Borough of Woking in England, who have a Wikipedia page. Woking is a town and borough in Surrey, around 23 mi (37 km) southwest of central London. In addition to the town of Woking, the borough also includes the settlements of Brookwood, Knaphill, Pyrford, Byfleet and West Byfleet. The first surviving record of the settlement is from Domesday Book of 1086, in which the manor appears as Wochinges. The "monastery at Wocchingas" is mentioned in a c. 1200 copy of an early 8th-century letter from Pope Constantine to Hedda, Abbot of Bermondsey and Woking. (en)
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- Novelist (en)
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- actor (en)
- rapper (en)
- Olympic pole vaulter (en)
- Academic, historian and commentator with special interest in Iran (en)
- Rock music producer/engineer for Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden (en)
- former England international rugby union player, was born in Woking (en)
- Politician, suffragette, lived at Fisher's Hill, Hook Heath Road (en)
- Bestselling author from Winston Churchill School (en)
- CEO/Chairman of the McLaren Group (en)
- Co-Writer of The Inbetweeners, born in Woking (en)
- musician, singer-songwriter, television presenter and actor, who was a founding member of pop rock band Busted and was the winner of I'm A Celebrity... in 2006, lived in Woking and attended Woking High School (en)
- Ballerina, principal dancer with Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich and formerly with the English National Ballet, grew up in Woking (en)
- Liberal Democrat politician (en)
- Lived in Sutton Green (en)
- Olympic rower, from Pyrford (en)
- actor, former lead in Doctor Who attended The Winston Churchill School (Woking) (en)
- Singer and guitarist born at Woking (en)
- Soldier, barrister and historian of Freemasonry (en)
- Surrey County Cricketer (en)
- Surrey County and England Cricketer (en)
- WW2 Special Operations Executive agent (en)
- guitarist for Status Quo went to school in Sheerwater and has family in the area, (en)
- actor, 1943 (en)
- bass player with The Jam, (en)
- best-selling cook was born in Woking (en)
- businessman, lived at Pyrford (en)
- children's entertainer, born in Woking (en)
- comedian, was born in Woking (en)
- composer and the first woman suffragette (en)
- concert pianist, lived and worked in Woking. (en)
- drummer with The Jam, (en)
- founded the Kenwood company in Woking (en)
- First Englishman to be a convert to the Baháʼí Faith (en)
- lover of Horatio Nelson. Hamilton lived in Pyrford (en)
- mathematician, Cremated at Woking Crematorium (en)
- naturalist and writer, lived at Sutton Place and Whitmoor House (en)
- newspaper executive, was born at Worplesdon Hill (en)
- novelist, attended Woking County Grammar School (en)
- photographer/filmmaker (en)
- playwright, critic, political activist (en)
- author who used the town as a setting for his novel The War of the Worlds and was staying in the town when he wrote it. A large sculpture of a Martian Fighting Machine was installed in the town centre to commemorate Woking's links with the story. (en)
- neo-folk musician, co-founder of Death in June, founder and vocalist of Sol Invictus, & L'Orchestre Noir (en)
- art historian, feminist and trade unionist, lived at Pyrford Rough (en)
- Politician, lived at Fisher's Hill, Hook Heath Road (en)
- Businessman, Entrepreneur and Former Chairman of Woking F.C. (en)
- co-founder of Aardman Animations, attended Woking Grammar school (en)
- guitarist and singer-songwriter, The Style Council, The Jam. "Town Called Malice", which was written by Paul Weller and recorded by his band, The Jam, is about Woking. The song reached No. 1 in the UK Charts. (en)
- a lexicographer and the dictionary expert on Countdown (en)
- pop group, started their careers at a Knaphill studio (en)
- composer, pianist, conductor and music arranger born in Woking , attended Sheerwater Secondary School, Woking Boys Grammar School and Woking VI Form College. (en)
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- This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, the Borough of Woking in England, who have a Wikipedia page. Woking is a town and borough in Surrey, around 23 mi (37 km) southwest of central London. In addition to the town of Woking, the borough also includes the settlements of Brookwood, Knaphill, Pyrford, Byfleet and West Byfleet. (en)
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