Famous people from your local area

[Shimmeringstar]

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.

Loads of emmerdale and ex emmerdale people live within a few miles of me. Probably more ex emmerdale people these days.

And mimi le bonk from Allo Allo is in the next village

Rose Leslie
Laura Main
Annie Lennox

More, in the county, and I have never met any of them. But I live not far from where the Windsor bunch holiday.

Julie Andrew's too! Beckenham appears to be churning them out. I don't count Kate Lawler, sorry 🤣

Nick Park (Wallace and Grommit creator)
Freddie Flintoff
Sir Tom Finney

Freddie Flintoff.

Anne Diamond
Cher Lloyd 😂
Graeme Hick
Caroline Lucas
David Mitchell (writer)
Jacqui Smith (former home secretary)

Lots of famous dead people spent time here...
Edward Elgar
CS Lewis
Lewis Carroll
Florence Nhightingale
Aleister Crowley
Jenny Lind

Nigel Kennedy used to drink in my local.

Gordon Brown
Ewan McGregor
Laura Muir when she moved from Inverness.

The famous peple from my area are not from my village where I live, but my local town, which has lots of surrounding villages.

Hollie Davidson (rugby union ref)

From where I am now we have Marc Almond and Lee Mack is fairly local.

My home town has Richard Cole, Hugh Dennis and some younger comedian whose name partially escapes me...Acaster? 🤷‍♀️

Ay up mi duck! 😉

Mel B & unfortunately Jimmy Saville 🤬

The Beatles
Cherri Booth
William Gladstone
Cilla Black

Tom Holland
The lovely Debbie McGee
Clara Amfo
Jonny Lee Miller
Rat Scabies (The Damned)
Declan Rice and Luke Shaw (football)
Jaqueline Wilson
And one some of you may remember Fiona Hendley - former actress married to Paul Jones of Manfred Mann (I went to school with her)

John Culshaw, Nisha Katona.

Dougray Scott grew up in the same town as me at the same time. He went to a different high school though.

Margaret Thatcher and Isaac Newton.
Also believe that Richard O'Brien used to teach at the local boys school but unsure if that's true.

What kind of shop did Peter Andre own?

Me too @MrsMoastyToasty - same combination

We also have Dominic west and Nick Mason from Pink Floyd just up the road along with Peter Gabriel, Midge Ure and Hugh Cornwell - I suppose we can say Jane Austen too (for a period)

Sheridan Smith grew up a few streets away from me. Brian Blessed, Jeremy Clarkson, Tan France, Miss Naomi Carter, Yungblood and Louis Tomlinson are from the wider area.

Siobhan Finneran
Kevin Sinfield
Bobby Ball
Professor Brian Cox
Paul Scholes

Don’t want to out myself but within a 1 mile radius we have numerous Rockstars, TV presenters, Footballers etc

Jodie Whittaker
My dc go to her old schools

Kate Rusby
Darren Gough
Dickie Bird

Sounds like my home town from some names here: would you add Lena Headey and Jodie Whittaker?