Famous people

[helliebobs]

any celebrities come from your town?

[cliffsdoll]

yes gareth gates is from bradford, the little girl from the chronicles of narnia i believe is also from bradford, the boy who plays neville longbottom is from ilkly. then we have the young boy from the lassie film.

[Sammy Snake]

Robbie Williams, Sir Stanley Matthews, Anthea Turner (although calling her a celebrity is pushing it a bit...)

[Drusilla]

I don't know of any celebrities born in Hackney, but I bet they didn't stay long.

[spudqueen]

A few in my nearest town - Freddie Flintoff, Tom Finney, but I don't think there are any from my village!

[helliebobs]

Just out of interest Spudqueen, which village are you from?

[gary baldy]

Drusilla - ive just looked on Wikpedia and loads and loads of great people were born in Hackney.
I'm guessing spudqueen lives near Preston!

[helliebobs]

Other famous Prestonians:

Nick Park - Wallace and Gromit fame

Jessica from Liberty X

John Inman and Roy Barraclough apparently

Cold Feet actor John Thompson was brought up in Preston

[Drusilla]

Hey gary baldy Would you want to claim Ronnie and Reggie Kray, Sid Vicious and Sir Alan Sugar? As for Sir Michael Caine, I remember him owning a posh place by the Thames, but it was in Richmond, or some such place.
I must admit I don't remember anyone telling me Marc Bolan and Ray Winstone were from Homerton.
I still hate the place though and have never regretted moving out when I was eighteen. I'm going to have nightmares tonight!! :-)

[gary baldy]

What about Martine McCucheon?
Aint you proud tweekle?

[Drusilla]

Stop it gary baldy. I'm gonna be droppin me aitches in a mo, aint I??

[littleoldme]

I was born in Woking,which can claim:

Paul Weller
Rick Parfitt (Status Quo)
Brian Hooper (former Olympic pole vaulter)
Harry Hill (comedian, or not, depending on your point of view)
Martin Tyler (Sky Sports football commentator)
...erm...Bernie Flint (1970s Opportunity Knocks winner) - OK, I'm struggling now
Oh, and me, of course (world domination pending)

[gary baldy]

Oy - luv a duck me cockney sparra!
Right enough of that!
I'm from Manchester so we could be here all day so i'm going to be specific.
Born in Macclesfield - Ian Curtis and Steve Morris of Joy division/ new order , John Martyn
Grew up in Salford - Ben Kingsley, Robert Powell, Albert Finney, Graham Nash, Alastair Cooke, the rest of new order, happy mondays, john cooper clarke (celebrity?) i could go on and on
now live just near Burnage where those talentless, home breaking, philandering, low iq-ed, ostentatious has beens the Gallagher brothers grew up.

[andy-hughes]

Sammy Snake's missed a few Stoke-on-Trent celebs - Captain Smith of the Titanic, rockers Slash (lived here as a child) and Lemmy (born here), Reginald Mitchell, inventor of the Spitfire, Dominic Cork, cricketer, Garth Crooks and Robbie Earl, TV footie pundits, Nick Hancock, TV presenter, Arnold Bennett, author, that'll do for now.

[gary baldy]

Hey andy can i give a 'big up' (as young people say) to all the pottery people from your fair city!
Charlotte Rhead ( a distant relative of mine), Clarice Cliff and of course Josiah Wedgewood.
Hardly celebs i know but certainly worth a mention hey?

[dotjhawkes]

John Thompson from Cold Feet might have been born in Preston Hospital but he went to Southlands School in Chorley and married a girl he went to school with , her Mum lives around the corner from me.

[mightyWBA]

My home town of West Bromwich was the birthplace of-

Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin

Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy

Julie Walters - comedian/actress

Frank Skinner -Comedian

Denise Lewis - Olympic Gold medallist

The entire F.A. Cup winning team of 1888!

Boing Boing!

[goldfish1]

David Sneddon (Fame Academy)...........

[veritymoon]

went the same school as suran jones ( karen from corrie) and the united player nicky butt or so im told.

[Lonnie]

Sir Alf Ramsay, Jimmy Greaves, Dudley Moore, Sandie Shaw.

[don1]

Gary Baldy I'm a bit surprised you missed out the Bee Gee's