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Famous people from your local area

192 replies

Shimmeringstar · 02/03/2024 21:37

Just that really, name some famous people from your local area (sorry if it’s already been down before)

I’ll go first… Martin Compston is from the same town as us.

OP posts:
7Summers · 02/03/2024 23:58

CadyEastman · 02/03/2024 22:08

As always the first response nails it Grin

What? 😐

pinkgown · 03/03/2024 00:04

Tony Blackburn
Tony Hancock
Anita Harris
And a big clue - Mary Shelley (of Frankenstein fame) is buried there

Greatbritish · 03/03/2024 00:04

Pebbles16 · 02/03/2024 22:28

A select few make my list, not all born and raised because very few people were actually born and raised here... we are a 'fluid enclave'
Writers
Samuel Pepys
Polly Toynbee
Kingsley Amis
Graham Greene
Angela Carter (one of my absolute favourite authors)

Actors
Jo Brand
Leslie Ash
Vanessa Redgrave
Jeremy Brett
Margaret Rutherford
Lena Headey
Margot Robbie (used to have a flat above my friends - a night or two in Infernos was shared!)
Miriam Margolyes
Neil Pearson

Fashion
Viveienne Westwood

Music
Malcolm McLaren
Natasha Bedingfield

General celeb/others
Brian Dowling (we share a dentist!)
Huw Edwards (hmmm)
Ainsley Harriot
Holly Willoughby

Sports
Andrew Castle
Jack Hobbs

2 of your list were born and raised in my town, so you're making very tenuous links.

Weatherdial · 03/03/2024 00:09

Greenock.. I'm no too far from ye, bout 40 miles, 😂

DontLeanOnTheKeyboard · 03/03/2024 00:21

Places I’ve previously lived near/in

Victoria Pendleton

Ben Whishaw

Alan Carr

James Acaster

lookwhatyoudidthere · 03/03/2024 00:52

David Bowie, Bill Wyman, Enid Blyton & Floella Benjamin.

MrsMoastyToasty · 03/03/2024 00:52

Where I live now:

Marcus Trescothick
Bill Bailey (his dad was a local GP).
Judd Trump practiced his snooker locally.
Noel Edmonds lived in the next village
Acker Bilk was born in another village just down the road.

Where I used to live:
Cary Grant
Robin Cousins
Steven Merchant
Sir Bob Hope
Russell Howard
Claudia Fragapane
Alice Evans
Dr Alice Roberts
Dave Prowse

ChillerBee · 03/03/2024 01:00

Ed Sheeran

Misorchid · 03/03/2024 01:05

Beatles and too many to mention…

Tarquina · 03/03/2024 01:07

Why do you want to know this? After all every famous person came from some town and somebody from Mum's net is gonna live in that town so if this thread carries on eventually all famous people would be covered. It just seems so pointless.

Longlive · 03/03/2024 01:08

James Blunt

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 03/03/2024 01:10

BarelyLiterate · 02/03/2024 22:35

I went to school with Tracey Shaw, the actress who was in Coronation Street and was featured in the lads’ mags in the 90s. I was a few years older than her, so I didn’t know her well.

I know where you are from then.

We can also claim Timothy Dalton

Ekofisk · 03/03/2024 01:14

I saw Iain Dowie (former NI footballer) play the lead in Oliver! in a school production.

Thats 2 hours of my life I’m never getting back …

TurquoiseDress · 03/03/2024 01:22

lookwhatyoudidthere · 03/03/2024 00:52

David Bowie, Bill Wyman, Enid Blyton & Floella Benjamin.

I live there too!

TurquoiseDress · 03/03/2024 01:24

The mighty Beckenham!

And don't forget Kate Lawler from Big Brother fame...she went to one of the local state secondary schools

aintnospringchicken · 03/03/2024 01:57

Sean Connery
Ronnie Corbett
Chris Hoy
Mark Bonnar
Hannah Gordon
Alexander Graham Bell
Robert Louis Stevenson

RosieTheChi · 03/03/2024 01:59

Mick Jagger

Ialwaystry · 03/03/2024 02:01

The lovely Ant and Dec, Cheryl Cole, Stephanie Peddie, prob a few other Geordies...

Ialwaystry · 03/03/2024 02:02

Stephan
Not Stephanie ( in my year at school)

Simonjt · 03/03/2024 02:04

I for a short time was at the same school as Vicky McClure.

When we lived in the UK Russell Tovey was our neighbour.

Parker231 · 03/03/2024 08:42

In the province rather than city - Celine Dion and Leonard Cohen.

AnaVanda · 03/03/2024 08:44

Paul O Grady grew up in my home town. I read his autobiography and he went to the same primary school as me

AnaVanda · 03/03/2024 08:47

pinkgown · 03/03/2024 00:04

Tony Blackburn
Tony Hancock
Anita Harris
And a big clue - Mary Shelley (of Frankenstein fame) is buried there

My sister and I were obsessed with Anita Harris when we were children. We're both in our 60s now. We thought she was so beautiful. 🙂

Plump82 · 03/03/2024 08:48

I had to Google this and didn't know anyone apart from the brothers from Hue & Cry. Don't even know how famous they are outwith of Scotland.

Tommydoes · 03/03/2024 08:50

Mick Jagger