Famous people from your city/town?

I think I would keep Stacey Solomon under my hat if I was you.

 

William Hillary founder of the RNLI.
Fletcher Christian of Mutiny on the Bounty fame.
Mark Cavendish, cyclist.
Norman Wisdom lived here for many years.......he once played a practical joke on me whilst out driving.
James Toseland, motorcyclist.

And a lot more I can't think of at the moment.

Edit: This was on the Isle of Man, I now live in Scotland.

 

Paul Mason.
70-stone Briton Paul Mason is world’s heaviest man | The Sun |News

Steven Wright

Mmm.... not doing too well here am I?

Ok, how about:

Keith Deller (former world darts champion)
Percy Edwards (Animal and bird impressions)
Dani Filth (lead singer Cradle of Filth)


Impressed now?

 

Joseph Lister was born in Essex? Well, I go to the foot of our stairs!

Sunderland does better!

• Kate Adie, former Chief News Reporter for the BBC
• Don Airey, musician, keyboardist with Deep Purple
• Marion Angus (1865–1946), Scottish poet writing in Scots, born in Sunderland
• The Rt. Hon. Hilary Armstrong MP, Cabinet Office and Social Exclusion Minister and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 2006
• Chris Beattie, actor in Purely Belter and Byker Grove
• George Bellamy, musician
• The Venerable Bede (674–735)
• Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), colonial administrator
• St Benedict Biscop (628?–690)
• PC Keith Blakelock (1945-1985), police officer
• James Bolam (1938–), actor
• We Beat The System: Band
• Mark Brydon, one half of electro outfit Moloko
• Raich Carter (1914-1994), footballer and manager
• Abel Chapman (1851–1929), hunter and naturalist
• William Reid Clanny (1770–1850), inventor and physician
• Bernard Comrie (1947–), linguist
• James Watson Corder (1868-1953), historian of local family history
• Sir Tom Cowie, entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Jack Crawford (1775 - 1831), sailor
• Terry Deary (1946–), author
• Sir Theodore Doxford, shipbuilder and politician
• Mike Elliott, comedian, actor and radio presenter
• Russell Enoch, actor
• Bryan Ferry, singer, musician, songwriter and occasional actor
• Muriel Foster, contralto
• The Futureheads, indie-rock band
• Eve Gallagher, singer
• Peter Gibbs, weather forecaster
• Sir Edward Temperley Gourley, coalfitter, shipowner and politician
• Edward Gregson, composer
• Jane Grigson, cookery writer
• Sir William Halcrow, civil engineer
• Billy Hardy (1964–), boxer who became Commonwealth featherweight champion
• Thomas Elliott Harrison, railway engineer
• Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795 - 1857), Major-General
• Jordan Henderson, footballer
• James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight) (1916–1995), veterinary surgeon and author
• Melanie Hill (1962–), actress
• Captain Richard Avery Hornsby, navy captain
• John Samuel Humble, Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer
• George Burton Hunter, shipbuilder and innovator
• Nat Jackley, comedian
• Jools Jameson (1968–), game developer
• Robert William "Bob" Jefferson (1882-????), footballer
• Tony Jeffries, boxer
• Adam Johnson, footballer
• Ernie Johnson, jockey who won the 1969 Epsom Derby
• Kenickie, a 1990s pop band
• Bobby Knoxall, comedian
• Lauren Laverne, ex-lead singer of Kenickie, now a Radio and TV presenter
• John Lilburne 'Free-born John', civil war figure
• Jez Lowe, folk singer, songwriter and broadcaster
• Gina McKee (1964–), actress
• Gibb McLaughlin (1884–1960), actor, born George Gibb McLaughlin
• Greg McLane, actor in Purely Belter
• Patrick Meik and Charles Meik, civil engineering brothers
• Sir William Mills, inventor of the Mills Bomb
• Christine Norden (1924–1988), actress, born Mary Lydia Thornton
• Bob Paisley, football manager
• David Parfitt, an Oscar-winning film producer
• Alan Parnaby (1916-1974), cricketer and British Army officer
• Ross Pearson, mixed martial artist in the UFC
• William Pile, shipbuilder
• Gareth Pugh (1981–), fashion designer
• Callum Keith Rennie (1960–), film and television actor
• Denise Robertson, novelist and TV agony aunt
• Maurice Roëves (1937–), actor
• Clarkson Stanfield, painter
• Dave Stewart (1952–), musician in the Eurythmics etc.
• Mary Stewart, novelist
• Joseph Swan, developer of the electric light bulb
• Tom Taylor, playwright and editor of Punch
• Sir Luke Thompson, coal merchant and politician
• Bobby Thompson, comedian - the 'Little Waster'
• The Toy Dolls, punk rock band
• Graham Wallas, author and academic
• Harry Watts, shipyard worker and multiple life-saver
• Bob Willis (1949–), cricketer
• Simon Winlow - world-leading ethnographer and criminologist
• Steve Bruce, manager of Sunderland A.F.C (2009-2011)
• Charles Buchan, footballer
• Lewis Carroll, writer Alice in Wonderland
• Frank Caws, architect
• Sir William Herschel, composer and astronomer. Discoverer of Uranus
• Charlie Hurley, footballer
• L. S. Lowry, artist
• Lola Montez, adventuress
• Chris Mullin, Civil Liberty campaigner and MP
• William Paley, rector of Bishopwearmouth. Wrote on intelligent design as opposed to evolution
• Frank Pick, industrial designer
• Len Shackleton, footballer
• Vivian Stanshall and his wife Ki Longfellow, found the Baltic Trader "Thekla" and sailed her to Bristol where she became the Old Profanity Showboat

 

Not many.

The Attenboroughs
Gok Wan
Sue Townsend
David Icke
Englebert Humperdinck
Gary Lineker
Kasabian
Joseph Hansom (Invented Hansom cabs)
Alec Jeffery (Invented DNA testing)
Daniel Lambert (18 Century Fat bloke)
Thomas Cook

 

Daisees claimed Bobby Thompson for Sunderland - she's right but we all think he was a Geordie.
Here's a few of his snippits for old times sake:-

• "The dole is my shepherd, I shall not work."
• "She shouts from upstairs, Bobby can yer fix the string on wa carrier bag . . . wai am nae engineer."
• "I'll give ya a bottle o' Brandy if you can tell us you pay the 'lectric bill before you get the red letter."
• "A man come to oor door. I says come in, tak a seat. He says 'I'm coming in to tak the lot.'"
• "Wu got off the train at Blackpool, the porter came up an' asked if 'e could carry me baggage. I said 'Na, let 'er walk'."
• "Wu went into the restaurant an' asked for a coffee. The waiter asked if wu wanted black or white. She says 'I'll have black wi' milk in'."
• On the night of the 1951 election when the Conservative Party was rumoured to be planning to abolish the National Health Service: "It came tu last orders and the barman shouted 'Come on, let's see yer glasses off', and I said 'Well, them Tories haven't wasted any time, have the!'"
• "You believe Bobby Thompson. If yu pays what yu owe yu'll never have nowt."
• "When ya drunk, yu say things yu don't mean. I says to her I love ya. After a wiped the blood off me face ... A says gis a kiss under the mistletoe. She says aks me mother'. I wish a could've found an axe. Aks 'er mother for a kiss under the mistletoe, a wouldn' kiss 'er under chloroform!"
• "1939 - I was secretary for the street… I went for treasurer but a was too well known!"
• "She's putting up sandwiches on the Monday an' wa not gannin till the Wednesday. Well ye kna tinned tomatoes torn claggy"
• "They came into the court and they woz givin' the papers out to the jurerors (Jury) ... She shouts 'Bobby, there must be a Housie on before the case!'"
• "The judge said 'You owe seven thousand, can you pay?'... I said 'Give 'im the breathalyser!'"
• "Noo, Ah divvent kna where aal ye's are from ... (changes to a posh accent) but I'm from Whitley Bay."
• "She says 'Bobby, we'll just have a two course lunch cos its rather warm'. Two course?! Chips n' sauce!!"
• "There woz a knock at oor door last Wednesday mornin'. He says, 'Am from Littlewoods', I says, 'God bless ya! I've won the treble chance?!' He says, "Nah, your wife's up for shoplifting!"
• "Now, that's the thing aboot debt. Some calls it debt, ya see, and then there's them what calls it credit. Committee mens' wives, 'on account'. Well, am in debt on account of not being able to pay me credit!"
• "... and err!" a mannerism frequently used by Bobby at the punchline of a joke. Also used in conversation by Lord Ashley 'Farquar' Reynolds of Shotley Manor, former Monarch of the Glen.
• " Ah went to the doctors. He said, "Can you walk?". Ah said, "work! ah can't even waak!"
• " The Queen came up tiv us with a plate of cakes. "Bobby, would you like a scone or a meringue?". Ah says, "Nah ya quite right, ah'll have a scone"

 

Blimey Madahhlia,

Didn't realise your suburban paridise was on the sub continent:D

(wiki)

 

Cliff Richard lives down the road, 15 minutes away .. but I guess that doesn't count as it is neither of our 'home towns' ... His road manager lives next door (townhouse) to our good friends.

 

from llanelli there are one or two

Sports

• Phil Bennett, fly-half, Wales and British Lions.
• Jonathan Davies, rugby footballer
• Dwayne Peel, rugby player, Wales and British Lions.
• Ray Gravell, rugby player player for Wales, the British Lions and Llanelli RFC, actor and broadcaster.
• Terry Griffiths, world snooker champion (1979).
• Gareth Jenkins, coach: Llanelli RFC (1982–2003), Llanelli Scarlets (2003–2006), Welsh national rugby team (2006–2007).
• Derek Quinnell, rugby player player for Wales, British Lions and Llanelli RFC
• Eirian Williams, snooker referee.
• Steve Naylor, bodybuilder,7 times overall Mr Wales,Overall Mr Europe 2004,Overall Mr Britain 2005
• Flex Lewis, bodybuilder, IFBB Pro, Mr. Olympia 202 Competitor, Jr Mr Europe 2004,Overall Mr Britain 2007,Jr Mr Universe 2006
• Kyle Letheran, Plymouth Argyle F.C goalkeeper.
• 'Dynamite' Dean Phillips, boxer, Junior World Kickboxing Champion. Commonwealth/IBF Intercontinental/Welsh Lightweight title challenger.
• Neil Haddock, boxer, British Superfeatherweight Champion/European Lightweight title challenger.
• Chris Jacobs, boxer, Welsh heavyweight champion.
• Byron Stevenson, Welsh association footballer.
• Jeff Evans, First Class Cricket Umpire
• Dai Greene, athlete 400m hurdler, world champion and Gold medalist for IAAF championships at Daegu, South Korea

[edit] Government and politics

• Lord Elwyn Jones, Labour Lord Chancellor 1974-79.
• Rod Richards, former Conservative member of parliament for Clwyd North West and former leader of the Conservative party at the National Assembly for Wales
• Michael Howard, British politician, former leader of the Conservative party

[edit] Art, media and entertainment

• Rachel Roberts (actress), actress
• James Dickson Innes, artist
• Huw Edwards, BBC newsreader
• Pam Ferris, actor.
• Jessica Garlick, Eurovision Song Contest 2002 UK entrant and Pop Idol finalist
• Deke Leonard, rock musician, author, raconteur and TV panellist
• Gareth Hughes, silent film actor, born in Halfway/Pemberton
• Christopher Rees, singer, songwriter, musician.
• Donald Swann of Flanders and Swann
• Huw Thomas, ITN newscaster
• Imogen Thomas, former Big Brother contestant and Adult Actress
• Ronald Cass, film writer and composer
• Leslie Cass, songwriter and brother of Ronald Cass
• Sophie Dee, Award Winning British Adult actress
• Gary Griffiths, opera singer

[edit] Other

• Rev'd Dr Leslie John Griffiths, The Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, Methodist Minister.
• Richard Taylor, TV Presenter, Author and Minister.
• Sir John Meurig Thomas, chemist
• Brian Trubshaw, pilot of first flight of British Concorde

Dorothy Squires (Recording artist - 1915 to 1998)

 

Well, I know there are some, so I did a search and found this:

Redcar - Famous People

I do know we can claim Roy Chubby Brown, who lived on Corporation Road as a lad.

 

How could you forget Tony Wilson (founder of Creation Records), Peter Hook (musician, Joy Division and New Order), Shaun Ryder (musician Happy Mondays) and (I think) Emily Pankhurst (womens suffragete).

Here, we have Clive Walker (footballer, his mother was one of my teachers) and Pam Ayres.
Reaching out to Oxford, we have the boys from Radiohead.

 

Ah well, he may have started out in Madras but he deffo ended up in Leicester! Was that upgrading or downgrading, I wonder?

 

Yeah, but I think the ones I mentioned are more known :D

Tony used to be nicknamed Mr Manchester, which I know annoyed him. Very proud Salfordian, was Tony :D