Camden

A writer whose novels include Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. After her father died in 1904 she and her brothers and sisters moved to Bloomsbury, where she became a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group.

The poet Sylvia Plath married the poet Ted Hughes in 1956 at the church of St George the Martyr, in Queen Square, Bloomsbury.

In 1825 the British Museum bought Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities from her, the start of its Ancient Near Eastern collection. She was the widow of the Assyriologist Claudius James Rich.

Money she left to the British Museum in 1892 paid for digs in Cyprus.

A local resident. The Bloomsbury Festival began in 2006, when she was asked to mark the re-opening of the Brunswick Centre, a place with homes and shops.

With the Commons Preservation Society, she defended Parliament Hill Fields from being built on in the late 19th century. The fields officially became part of Hampstead Heath in 1888.

In 1904 she led a campaign that ended with Wyldes Farm being bought from Eton College. The land was added to Hampstead Heath in 1922.

A primatologist and anthropologist, born in Hampstead in 1934. In 1960 she went to Gombe Stream National Park to study wild chimpanzees, and her research showed that chimpanzees share many traits with humans, such as using tools.

When John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, died in 1771, his wife carried on building up Bloomsbury.