London has been home to many famous people over the years. Their places of residence are marked with blue (mostly) round (also mostly) signs on the houses where they lived or stayed. This tradition is quite old, it was started by the Royal Society of Arts back in 1876. This tradition has continued to this day and there are now just under a thousand of these plaques. You will definitely notice theses while walking in London. But if you are particularly interested in the residence of a celebrity, I have collected here a selection of those persons that the average person might also know. Not all are residences, some are places where celebrities worked or stopped when passing through. As there are many streets with the same name in London, I also added the postcode at the end of each address.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writer (Sherlock Holmes) 12 Tennison Road SE25
Emile Zola French writer Queen's Hotel, 122 Church Road SE19
Charles Gounod composer 15 Morden Road SE3
Daniel Defoe writer, (Robinson Crusoe) 95 Stoke Newington Church Street N16
Joseph Priestley scientist 7–8 Ram Place E9
Mahatma Gandhi social figure 20 Baron's Court Road W14 / Kingsley Hall, Powis Road E3
Freddie Mercury musician 22 Gladstone Avenue TW14
Joseph Grimaldi world-famous clown 56 Exmouth Market EC1R
Charlie Chaplin film actor 15 Glenshaw Mansions, Brixton Road SW9
Graham Greene writer 14 Clapham Common Northside SW4
Edvard Grieg composer 7 Clapham Common Northside SW4
Vincent Van Gogh artist 87 Hackford Road SW9
Arthur Schopenhauer philosopher Eagle House, High Street SW19
Henry Fielding writer Milbourne House, Barnes SW13
Virginia Woolf writer Hogarth House, 34 Paradise Road TW9 / 29 Fitzroy Square W1T
Sir Christopher Wren architect The Old Court House, Hampton Court Green KT8
John Logie Baird broadcasting pioneer 3 Crescent Wood Road SE26
James Cook explorer 88 Mile End Road E1
James Parkinson doctor, described parkinsonism first 1 Hoxton Square N1 6NU
George Eliot writer Holly Lodge, 31 Wimbledon Park Road SW18
Henry Cavendish scientist 11 Bedford Square WC1B
Charles Darwin nature scientist Biological Sciences Building, University College London, Gower Street WC1E
Charles Dickens writer 48 Doughty Street (now Charles Dickens Museum) WC1N
Friedrich Engels economical scientist 122 Regent's Park Road NW1
Sigmund Freud psychiatrist 20 Maresfield Gardens (Freud Museum) NW3
John Galsworthy writer Grove Lodge, Admiral's Walk NW3
George Orwell writer 50 Lawford Road Town NW5 / 77 Parliament Hill NW3
Paul Robeson singer The Chestnuts, Branch Hill NW3
Bertrand Russell philosopher 34 Russell Chambers, Bury Place WC1A
Sir George Bernard Shaw writer 29 Fitzroy Square W1T
Sir Hans Sloane physician, founder of the British Museum 4 Bloomsbury Place WC1A
Rabindranath Tagore poet 3 Villas on the Heath, Vale of Health NW3
Dylan Thomas poet 54 Delancey Street NW1
Béla Bartók hungarian composer 7 Sydney Place SW7
Samuel Beckett playwriter 48 Paultons Square SW5
Benjamin Britten composer 173 Cromwell Road SW5
Dame Agatha Christie writer 58 Sheffield Terrace W8
Sir Winston Churchill prime minister 28 Hyde Park Gate SW7 / 33 Eccleston Square SW1V
Sir Alexander Fleming discoverer of penicillin 20a Danvers Street SW3
Sir Alfred Hitchcock film director 153 Cromwell Road SW5
Jerome K. Jerome writer 91–104 Chelsea Gardens, Chelsea Bridge Road SW1W
A. A. Milne writer (Winnie Pooh) 13 Mallord Street SW3
Jawaharlal Nehru first Indian PM 60 Elgin Crescent W11
Rudolf Nureyev ballet dancer 27 Victoria Road W8
Sir William Ramsay chemist, discoverer of inert gasees 12 Arundel Gardens W11
Robert Falcon Scott organized expeditions to Antarctica 56 Oakley Street SW3
Jean Sibelius composer 15 Gloucester Walk W8
Bram Stoker writer (Dracula) 18 St Leonard's Terrace SW3
Samuel L. Clemens "Mark Twain" writer 23 Tedworth Square SW3
Oscar Wilde writer 34 Tite Street SW3
Hector Berlioz composer 58 Queen Anne Street W1M
Frederic Chopin composer 4 St James's Place SW1A
Charles De Gaulle president of France 4 Carlton Gardens SW1Y
Michael Faraday physicist 48 Blandford Street W1U
Ian Fleming "father" of James Bond 22 Ebury Street SW1W
Benjamin Franklin US politician, writer, inventor 36 Craven Street WC2N
George Frideric Händel composer 25 Brook Street W1K
Heinrich Heine poet 32 Craven Street WC2N
Jimi Hendrix guitarist 23 Brook Street W1K
Alexander Herzen "political thinker" 1 Orsett Terrace W2
Ada, Countess of Lovelace the first programmer 12 St James's Square SW1Y
Rudyard Kipling writer 43 Villiers Street WC2N
John Lennon musician 34 Montagu Square W1H
Guillermo Marconi inventor of radio 71 Hereford Road W2
Karl Marx economical scientist 28 Dean Street W1D
William Somerset Maugham writer 6 Chesterfield Street W1J
Felix Mendelssohn composer 4 Hobart Place SW1W
Samuel Morse inventor of morse code 141 Cleveland Street W1T
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer 180 Ebury Street SW1W
Napoleon III emperor 1c King Street SW1Y
Horatio Nelson chief admiral 147 New Bond Street W1S
Sir Isaac Newton physicist and mathematician 87 Jermyn Street SW1Y
Mary Shelley author of Frankenstein 24 Chester Square SW1W
Lord Kelvin physicist 15 Eaton Place SW1X
Alan Turing computer genius 2 Warrington Crescent W9
Marie Tussauds wax artist 24 Wellington Road NW8
Martin van Buren eighth President of USA 7 Stratford Place W1C
H. G. Wells science fiction 13 Hanover Terrace NW1
Roughly a few places Another nice picture of famous people :-)