Merton

She and her husband, Sir William Hamilton, advised Nelson to buy Merton Place, and they lived there with him between his trips to sea. After Sir William died in April 1803 she took a smaller home nearby. A pub at Wimbledon Chase was named after her until it closed in 2011.

The only surviving member of the Tate family, who had lived in a large mansion at Cricket Green, Mitcham, from about 1700. In 1829 she gave land and money to build almshouses on the site of the family home.

A British tennis player who was world No. 1. She won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1955, and the Wimbledon Championships in 1961, when she was partially deaf.

A British tennis player and the only British woman to have won titles at all four majors. She won Wimbledon in 1977, the 16th year she had played there.

A novelist who wrote Regency romances and detective stories. She was born in Wimbledon in 1902, and her writing career began in 1921 with The Black Moth.

A film and stage actress, born in Wimbledon. She played leading roles in two Alfred Hitchcock films of the 1930s.

An author and illustrator of children's books, best known for the Worst Witch novels. She went to the Ursuline High School in Wimbledon, which helped inspire Miss Cackle's Academy in the books.

A writer, born in Merton in 1962, who was Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her Noughts and Crosses series explores racism.

Girls have been ball girls at Wimbledon since 1977, and on Centre Court since 1985. Places are split equally between boys and girls.

Women have played at Wimbledon since the Ladies' Singles was added in 1884. Ladies' doubles and mixed doubles followed in 1913.