Kennington as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. British Army officer (1887–1976), British singer-songwriter and the main force behind the band Roachford, who scored their first success in 1989 with the hits "Cuddly Toy" and "Family Man", 1915-1985, English singer, drummer, bandleader): Bernard Montgomery, Andrew Roachford, Ray Ellington and some more.
Celebrities from Kennington