List of people from Hawkhurst
# List of people from Hawkhurst

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

## Born in Hawkhurst

* George Goschen (1866–1952), Member of Parliament, Governor of Madras and Acting Viceroy of India from 1929 to 1931.
* Rod Kedward (born 1937), historian.
* Nathaniel Lardner (1684–1768), theologian.
* John Leaney (chr, 1790), cricketer.
* William Leaney, cricketer.
* Tim Richmond (born 1959), photographer
* Charles Willis (1827–1895), cricketer.

## Old Marlboroughians

These people attended Marlborough House School.

* Wilbert Awdry (1911–1997), clergyman and author.
* David Gower (born 1957), cricketer.
* Stephen Poliakoff (born 1952), playwright.
* Peter Vansittart (1920–2008), novelist.

## Old Ronians

These people attended St Ronan's School during the time it has been based in Hawkhurst (since 1946).

* Raymond Bonham Carter (1929–2004), banker.
* Nick Brown (born 1950), MP.
* Richard Bridgeman (born 1947), peer and restaurateur.
* Frank Gardner (born 1961), journalist.
* Philip Langridge (1939–2010), musician.
* John Palmer (born 1940), hereditary peer

## People connected with Hawkhurst

These people have a connection with Hawkhurst

* William Angliss (1865–1957), businessman, was educated in Hawkhurst.
* Edward Crankshaw (1909–1984), writer, lived in Hawkhurst at the time of his death.
* Thomas Dunk (died 1718), Sheriff of London in 1711, lived in Hawkhurst.
* John Herschel (1792–1871), astronomer, lived in Hawkhurst at the time of his death.
* George Kilburne, (1839–1924) artist, was educated in Hawkhurst.
* John Mayers (1801–1865), cricketer, lived in Hawkhurst at the time of his death.
* William Penn, (1644–1718), founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, now the American State of Pennsylvania, owned an ironworks at Hawkhurst.
* William Rootes (1894–1964), established Rootes Motors in 1909 in Hawkhurst.
* Alexander Tolmer, (1815–1890), was educated in Hawkhurst and became a police officer in Australia.
* The Hawkhurst Gang, smugglers active from 1735 to 1749, were named after the village. They were based at the Oak and Ivy Inn.
