Named after diarist John Evelyn, the street runs from the Plough Way junction south to the junction with Deptford Church Street.
Anne Lister (1791–1840), née Anne Walker, Yorkshire landowner, diarist and traveller
In 1740 it was the birthplace of clergyman and diarist James Woodforde and, in 1763, his nephew the painter Samuel Woodforde.
Arthur Joseph Munby (19 August 1828 – 29 January 1910) was a Victorian British diarist, poet, barrister and solicitor.
Thomas Raikes ("the Younger") (3 October 1777 – 3 July 1848) a British merchant banker, dandy and diarist was a close childhood friend, traveling and gambling companion of Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington.
The Scottish diarist and author James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson passed through Ayton on his journey to London on 15 November 1762.
The Victorian diarist Francis Kilvert visited Brading on the day of John Oglander's funeral and recorded details of his visit to Brading in his diary.
The diarist Francis Kilvert lived in a vicarage on the other bank of the river.
The diarist John Evelyn (1620–1706) remarked that the view from the hill was "one of the godliest vistas in England".
Carl Tersmeden (23 April 1715, Larsbo bruk in Dalarna - 25 December 1797) was a Swedish admiral and diarist.
Samuel Pepys wrote in The Diarist, having tasted the wine at Royal Oak Tavern on April 10, 1663, to have "drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryen that hath a good and most particular taste I never met with".
He married Mary, daughter of George Evelyn of Wootton and niece of John Evelyn, the diarist.
The title of the earldom is derived from the village of Cottenham (pronounced "Cot-nam") in Cambridgeshire, birthplace of John Pepys, ancestor of the first Earl, and great-uncle of Samuel Pepys the diarist.
Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (1873–1944), his grandson and a fraudulent diarist
Elizabeth Simcoe née Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim (1762–1850), artist and diarist in colonial Canada
She is also the great-(8 generations) granddaughter of the diarist, John Evelyn, the diarist of London; owner of Sayes Court, which the Russian Tsar Peter the Great was known to be a regular visitor.
George Templeton Strong (1820–1875), his son, diarist during the American Civil War, worked at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft
A girl named Alice is mentioned briefly in one entry during the diarist's stay in Coos Bay, Oregon; she is an addict whom the diarist briefly meets on the street.
John Rayner Heppenstall (27 July 1911 – 23 May 1981), British novelist, poet, diarist, and radio producer
She is best known for her friendship with diarist Anne Frank.
Jakub Sobieski (May 5, 1590 – June 23, 1646) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble, parliamentarian, diarist, political activist, military leader and father of King Jan III Sobieski.
He was a first cousin of Otto Frank and, therefore, a first cousin, once removed, of the diarist Anne Frank.
Jock Colville (1915–1987), English civil servant and diarist
The cabinet was made for the diarist John Evelyn (1620-1706) and is an early example of a piece of furniture commissioned by a British visitor making the 'Grand Tour' of Europe.
In her book on the diarist George Templeton Strong, Vera Brodsky Lawrence reports that Hatton gave several public and private concerts in New York City in 1848.
Clark's elder son, Alan Clark, became a prominent Conservative MP and was a writer-historian and celebrated diarist.
The Georgian parsonage was for many years the home of the Rev. Robert Kilvert, father of the diarist Francis Kilvert, who from 1863 to 1864 and 1872 to 1876 was curate to his father here.
In 1950, he married Barbara Charlotte Ledermann, a former friend of the legendary diarist Anne Frank, with whom he had four children.
Simeon Perkins (1735-1812), a Nova Scotia merchant, diarist, and politician, who outfitted Loyalist privateers during the American War for Independence, born and raised in this city until moving to Liverpool, Nova Scotia with the New England Planters.
Pete Bowler (1952–2005), English environmental campaigner and country diarist
Dickon Edwards (born 1971), diarist and front man of the band Fosca
Robert Marteau (February 8, 1925 Virollet, Poitou – May 16, 2011 Paris) was a French poet, novelist, translator, essayist, diarist.
Tanya Savicheva (1930–1944), Russian child diarist who survived the Siege of Leningrad during World War II
His two-act chamber opera, "The Inman Diaries," (libretto by Jesse J. Martin) about the infamous Boston diarist Arthur Crew Inman was produced and premiered in Boston in 2007 by Intermezzo - The New England Chamber Opera Series.
Their eldest son Thomas became a noted London diarist; another son, Henry, became a churchman, eventually Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester.
Walter Yonge of Colyton (1579-1649), English lawyer, merchant and diarist
Amongst the well-known residents of this house were Sir William Yorke, baronet; the Venetian ambassador; the architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell (a great great nephew of the diarist Samuel Pepys); and the General Commander in Chief of the Army, Viscount Hill, who left in 1836 (and who gave his name to the modern road bridge north of Westbourne Grove called Lord Hill's Bridge).
Woodford House, an early 19th-century mansion, was the home of the Arbuthnot family and scene of the death of the diarist Harriet Arbuthnot in 1833.