Famous Residents of Bloomsbury

Check out the Blue Plaques of the famous residents of Bloomsbury to see where everyone lived as you wander around Bloomsbury.

Vanessa Bell (1879–1961), painter, sister of Virginia Woolf lived at 46 Gordon Square.

William Copeland Borlase M.P. (1848–1899)

Randolph Caldecott (1846–1886), illustrator, lived at No 46 Great Russell Street.

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) lived at 12 Upper Gower St in 1839.

George Dance (1741–1825), architect lived at 91 Gower Street.

Charles Dickens (1812–1870), novelist lived at 14 Great Russell Street, Tavistock Square and 48 Doughty Street.

Philip Hardwick (1792–1870) and Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892), father and son architects lived at 60 Russell Square for over ten years.

John Maynard Keynes, lived for thirty years in Gordon Square.

Bob Marley lived in 34 Ridgmount Gardens for 6 months in 1972.

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) lived at 24 Great James Street from 1921–1929.

John Shaw Senior (1776–1832) and John Shaw Junior (1803–1870), father and son architects lived in Gower Street.

Catherine Tate (b.1968), actress and comedienne, was brought up in the Brunswick Centre, close to Russell Square.

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), author, essayist, and diarist resided at 46 Gordon Square.

Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807–1880), architect lived at 77 Great Russell Street.

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), poet, dramatist and prose writer lived at Woburn Walk.

Ricky Gervais, comedian, until recently lived in Southampton Row and Store Street.

George du Maurier (1834–1896), artist and writer, lived at 91 (formerly 46) Great Russell Street

JM Barrie (1860–1937), playwright and novelist, lived in Guilford Street and Grenville Street when he first moved to London; it's where the Darling family in Peter Pan live.

John Wyndham lived at the Penn Club in Tavistock Square (1924-38) and then (expect for 1943-46 Army service) at the Club's new address at 21-22 Bedford Place, off Russell Square (its present address), until his marriage to fellow Penn Club adjoining room resident Grace Isabel Wilson in 1963.