• Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, better known as 21 Savage, rapper
• Ade Adepitan, British television presenter and wheelchair basketball player
• Chuba Akpom, footballer
• Chuks Aneke, footballer
• Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Labour Party politician
• Yxng Bane, rapper and singer
• Jim Barrett, footballer
• Kieran Agard, footbatter
• Wally Bellett, footballer
• Honor Blackman, actress^[1]
• Reece Burke, footballer
• Clive Burr, musician
• Sol Campbell, ex-footballer and manager
• Charlie Colkett, footballer
• Vera Day, actress and glamour model
• Jermain Defoe, footballer
• Richard Digance, folk singer
• Kristian Digby, television presenter
• Danny Dyer, actor
• Stan Earle, footballer
• Idris Elba, actor
• Medy Elito, footballer
• Perry Fenwick, actor
• Bryan Forbes, actor, screenwriter, film producer
• Lancey Foux, rapper and singer
• Kojo Funds, rapper and singer
• Ernie Gregory, footballer
• Peter Grotier, footballer
• Walter Hancock, inventor
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
• Michael Hector, football
• Luke Howard, meteorologist
• Chris Hughton, ex-footballer and manager
• Henry Hughton, ex-footballer with Crystal Palace and Leyton Orient
• J Hus, rapper
• Tony Jarrett, Olympic gold-medal sprint and hurdling athlete
• Matt Johnson, singer and songwriter
• Anna Kingsford, theosophist and author
• Kano, rapper and actor
• Ghetts, rapper
• Ezri Konsa, footballer
• Nina Frances Layard, archaeologist and poet
• Joan Littlewood, director of the Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal
• Dame Vera Lynn, singer
• Steve Marriott, musician and lead singer of The Small Faces and Humble Pie
• Stephen Mulhern, television presenter, entertainer, and former magician
• Anna Neagle, actress
• Dawn Neesom, journalist
• Malachi Napa, footballer
• Mark Noble, footballer and captain of West Ham United
• Christine Ohuruogu, Olympic gold-medal winning sprinter
• Godfrey Poku, footballer
• Dominic Poleon, footballer
• Tony Rivers, singer
• Steve John Shepherd, actor
• Gwyneth Strong, actor
• Tinchy Stryder, rapper
• Crazy Titch, rapper
• Tony Way, actor
• David Webb, footballer
• Bert Weedon, guitarist
• Vanessa White, singer with The Saturdays
• Rob Whiteman, public servant, CEO of CIPFA
• Benjamin Zephaniah, dub poet
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, Trained as a weightlifter in Forest Gate.

Note that William Shakespeare did not come from Stratford, Newham, but from Stratford-upon-Avon, which is known simply as "Stratford" to many people.