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Can you name anyone famous who comes from your town?
First one who comes to mind for my town is Neville from Harry Potter (Matthew Lewis) :rolleyes:
 
Harold Shipman, Ian Brady, Myra Hindley... ah, good old Hyde :) (just to clarify, I have since left but it sadly remains my 'home town'). Now in Hawkshead in the Lake District which I think is well known for Beatrix Potter!
 
Not necessarily born but lived at some point.
Katy Hill - Blue Peter presenter
Jimmy Greaves - footballer
Danny Greaves - footballer, son of Jimmy and I was in same class school with Danny
Clive Allen - footballer, went to same secondary school and his younger brother was in my year.
 
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Archibald Alexander Leach (aka Cary Grant).
 
Alison Chapman, Ross and Paul Godfrey and on the outskirts we have Vic Reeves, Paul o Grady and Julian Clary... Sir Donald Sinden lived nearby until he died recently....w.g.wells also resided close by.....
 
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A few more this time born here.
Richard Johnson - Actor
Francesca (Frankie) Sandford - singer S Club Juniors and now in The Saturdays, two years above my eldest at school.
Lorne Spicer - Cash in the Attic presenter
Francis Philip Francis - cricketer
Colin Griffiths - cricketer
 
purpleclouds said:
Harold Shipman, Ian Brady, Myra Hindley... ah, good old Hyde :) (just to clarify, I have since left but it sadly remains my 'home town'). Now in Hawkshead in the Lake District which I think is well known for Beatrix Potter!
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Same here, Hyde, or the town of the dead as the press called it during the shipman revelations.
 
Rosie Hungting-Whiteley ( from the terrible Transormers 3) Seth Lakeman ( musician ) and although not born around here, I do believe David Bailey now lives around here.

Can't forget Sir Frances Drake ;)
 
gavlar80 said:
Rosie Hungting-Whiteley ( from the terrible Transormers 3) Seth Lakeman ( musician ) and although not born around here, I do believe David Bailey now lives around here.

Can't forget Sir Frances Drake ;)
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I didn't bother watching Transformers after the first one.. Best not to be severely disappointed!
 
@archangel Donald Sutherland isn't dead.
(Unless it's not Keifer's dad you're talking about :lol: )
 
Mark King (Level 42) is the only one I can think of that lives here, but have had a fair few reside here for a while such as, Peter Sutcliffe, Ian Brady and the Kray twins.
 
3 from my area that I know of

Leon Jackson
J K Rowling
Susan Boyle

Quite often see Susan Boyle down the local shopping centre
 
Dixie Dean, Lewis Collins (a friend of my grand mother's), Elvis Costello, Patricia Routledge, Glenda Jackson, Paul O'Grady, Freddie Starr.

Where I live now; Michael J Fox, Nathan Fillion, Tommy Chong, K.D Lang.
 
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Sean Connery
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ken Stott
Aistair Sim
Irvine Welsh
Ronnie Corbett
Robert Louis Stevenson

and too many more to mention, oh nearly forgot ...me :)
 
Forgot about Ricky Hatton, he lives here too, and 'the syndicate project' (he's big on Youtube) :)
 
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Danny Macaskill. He lived here for a for a few years before he moved to Edinbourgh and became famous for his biking. I used to go out riding with him all the time and still speak to him now and again.

Alan Baxter. He's best known for failing the drugs test of the 2002 slalom in the winter olympics...even though it was only one of those Vicks sinex sprays lol

Not sure if there's any more actually from this area, it's so small.
 
How could I forget. Ian Dury lived here as a child.
 
nilagin said:
Not necessarily born but lived at some point.
Katy Hill - Blue Peter presenter
Jimmy Greaves - footballer
Danny Greaves - footballer, son of Jimmy and I was in same class school with Danny
Clive Allen - footballer, went to same secondary school and his younger brother was in my year.
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I delivered newspaper to jimmy and Clive was one of my neighbours.
 
Julian clary, john francombe, Justin Haywood (moody blues), rich Davies super trams, David hempleman-adams, mark Lamar, Melissa messenger, Diana dors, Gilbert osullivan, billie piper ( my daughter went to school with her brother and they lived in the next close).

Lots and lots
 
Keeley Hawes, Keira Knightly, Rob Brydon, Nick Frost.............
 
Karen Gillan
Elspet Gray
Sean Buchanan
Jimmy Chilholm
Charles Kennedy

And a long list of celeb B listers.
 
June Brown, of Dot Cotton fame, apparently has a flat here at Folkestone. Also, John Logie Baird, inventor of the television set, had a holiday home here.

I also take pride in the fact that Samuel Plimsoll, inventor of the plimsoll line and William Harvey, who discovered the blood circulatory system, both passed away here at Folkestone. For years I've been trying to impress the ladies with that one, but for some reason it doesn't seem to have worked.
 
I live in a small Scottish village so I'll go with my home town of Warrington.

George Formby
Pete Postlethwaite
Ian Brown (Stone Roses)
Pete Waterman
Tim Curry
Rick Astley
Chris Evans
 
Aimee bloody Duffy

though David Lloyd George came from not far away...
 
Meh, I live in London, fully adopted and new passport southerner, where do you want me to start? :lol:

Born and raised oop north though so will list a few born there instead.

Joan Bakewell
Tess Daly
David Dickinson
Norman Foster [I only just found that one]
Fred Perry
Mike Yarwood
 
Born on the Isle of Wight:

Mark King
Sheila Hancock
Bear Grylls
Robert Hooke
Jeremy Irons
Phil Jupitus
Anthony Minghella
Brian Murphy (one of my father's childhood friends)


Living or lived on the Isle of Wight:

Julia Margaret Cameron
Lewis Carroll
Sir Christopher Cockerell
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
John Keats
Karl Marx
David Niven
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Margaret Thatcher (boo, hiss!)
Queen Victoria
Barnes Wallis
Ken Dodd
Geoffrey Hughes
Jack Douglas
Jet Harris
Melvin Hayes
Ellen MacArthur
Alan Titchmarsh
The Osbournes
Shaw Taylor
Dick Taylor
Mark King
David Icke

EDIT: I see the swear filter has modified one of the names. Lets call him Richard instead then!


Steve
 
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