Notable Inmates
- Julian Assange, was remanded in custody at HMP Wandsworth on 7 December 2010 after being refused bail prior to an extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court. On 16 December 2010, he was released on bail after another appeal.
- Mohammad Asif, cricketer convicted for his part in the Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy
- Ronnie Biggs, participant in the Great Train Robbery, who escaped from the prison in 1965 before fleeing the country
- Charles Bronson (prisoner), notorious long-term inmate and artist
- David Chaytor, first MP to be convicted for his part in the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
- Pete Doherty, musician
- James Ibori, Influential Nigerian politician
- Bat Khurts, head of Mongolia's counter-terrorism agency, 2010.
- Ronnie Kray, organised crime leader
- Mazhar Majeed, cricket agent convicted for his part in the Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy.
- James Earl Ray, assassin of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Remanded from 8 June to 19 July 1968. ( See: Anthony Lewis, "Ray, on U.S. Plane, Leaves Britain," New York Times, 19 July 1968: 16)
- Kate Webster, perpetrator of the murder of Julia Martha Thomas
- Oscar Wilde, writer
- Salman Butt, cricketer convicted for his part in the Pakistan cricket spot-fixing controversy.
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