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==Notable residents== *[[Sky News]] presenter [[Anna Botting]] was born and raised in Cranleigh. *The artist [[Joseph Longhurst]] moved to Cranleigh in 1918, and lived there until his death in 1922. He was one of a group of artists who lived in the village in the early 1920s, including [[W. Heath Robinson]] and [[Lawson Wood]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Robinson|first1=W. Heath|title=My Line of Life|date=1938|publisher=Blackie & Sons}}</ref> *Mathematician [[G. H. Hardy]] was born and raised in Cranleigh.<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: DEC 1947 4a 204 Cambridge β Godfrey H. Hardy, aged 70</ref> *[[Frederick Savage (schoolmaster)|Frederick Savage]], schoolmaster who founded [[Seaford College]] *[[Jim Slater (accountant)|Jim Slater]], accountant turned businessman, founder of [[Slater Walker]], lived in the village *Former drummer in [[The Beatles]] [[Ringo Starr]] and his actress wife [[Barbara Bach]] lived on the outskirts of the village. *[[Frank Arthur Swinnerton|Frank Swinnerton]] the writer lived in the large cottage Old Tokefield on The Commons in Cranleigh for more than fifty years. *[[Desmond Tutu]], when serving as a [[Curate#Anglican Communion|curate]] in England in 1963, lived in the village for a month. He wrote in the parish magazine about how friendly the locals had been towards himself and his family.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Moore|first1=Charles|title=Notebook|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|page=17|date=11 January 2022}}</ref> *[[Richard O'Brien]], actor, songwriter, screenwriter and creator of the [[Rocky Horror Picture Show]] lived in Cranleigh. He named his house Denton after the fictional setting of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/celebrity-homes/crystal-maze-presenter-s-former-surrey-home-for-sale-richard-o-brien-wrote-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-so-called-the-ps1-5m-property-denton-a108826.html | title=This Surrey home has an unlikely link to the Rocky Horror Picture Show | date=19 March 2017 }}</ref>
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