When I was visiting the U.K. as a teenager in 2006, I got…

I wanted to cut past the polemics and experience London's Muslim communities for myself. My first visit was to Tower Hamlets, an East London…

— Andy Ngo

I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change…

— Sebastian Coe

“Smoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks. Small lights…

— John Owen Theobald

'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides…

— Michaela Coel

“You realise that people actually have to live in among all this and that east London is the bill, the tab that these cunts…

— John Niven

It's a weird thing, beards now. I'll be in east London, and lads come up to me: 'Yo man, what beard oil do you…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London

— George W. Bush

I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east London.

— Jonathan Anderson

We've grown up with American movies. Not to say that American movies - or movies that have been based in Watts, Compton, or Inglewood…

— John Boyega

Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine pair of…

— Vera Lynn

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

— Zaha Hadid

I have the tools to climb the mountain so I don't mind climbing mountains. I have climbed mountains since I was growing up in…

— Sol Campbell

Every household down my road in Peckham, south-east London, stunk of deep-fat frying and I'm sure every working-class home around the country was the…

— Gregg Wallace

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

— Tony Robinson

I grew up in southeast London and there's a lot of brutalist architecture.

— Kate Herron