Among those who were born in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, or have dwelt within the borders of the modern borough are:
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- Devlin – Grime MC
- Françoise Dior – French-born Nazi, arrested 1967
- Diversity – street dance group who won Britain's Got Talent in 2009
- Job Drain – soldier, awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in 1914
- David Howell Evans (aka "The Edge") – popular music musician.
- Ethelburga (d. c.680 AD) – first Abbess of Barking Abbey
- Daisy Evans – singer, past member of S Club Juniors
- Conor Okus – professional footballer
- Hank Osasuna – actor and performance artist who grew up in Chadwell Heath
- Zain Qaiser – "most prolific cyber criminal to be sentenced in the UK"
- Daniel Tammet – writer
- John Terry – former professional footballer
- Paul Terry – former professional footballer
- The Tremeloes – band formed by classmates Alan Howard and Brian Poole[15]
- Dave Trott – former chairman and Executive Creative Director of The Gate London, copywriter, blogger and author
- Wes Thomas – professional footballer with Oxford United F.C.
- Terry Venables – former professional footballer and manager
- Sir Cornelius Vermuyden – 17th-century Dutch drainage engineer; contracted by the Essex Sewer Commissioners to repair breaches in the Thames riverbank at Dagenham
- Bobby Zamora – professional footballer with Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
Jeff Powell (2006). Bobby Moore: The Life and Times of a Sporting Hero. Anova.
Marc Almond (2000). Tainted Life. Sidgwick & Jackson. p. 98.
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