Most famous people to go to your school?
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Matt Smith - Actor
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Absolutely nobody... I went to school in Redditch.
Girlfriend was best primary school friends with Frankie from The Saturday's though.
Girlfriend was best primary school friends with Frankie from The Saturday's though.
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You have something in common then.
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One's more doable though.
Her college doesn't have a bad list:
Ben Ainslie - British sailor and four-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time Olympic medalist (4G,1S) - most decorated sailor of all-time.
Andy Burrows - former drummer in the band Razorlight.
Will Champion - drummer in the band Coldplay.
Alexa Chung - TV presenter, model and fashionista.
Jack Dee - Stand up comedian and actor.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick "Paddy" Bardon Hine GCB, GBE - Senior Royal Air Force commander. Commander of all British forces during the first Gulf War.
Iain Percy - British sailor and double Olympic champion.
Lucy Pinder - Glamour Model and Celebrity Big Brother housemate.
Joanna Yeates - Highly Publicised Murder Victim
Quite a mix! Did laugh when I got to Yeates, as if that's worthy of being "notable alumni".
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According to Wiki no one famous went to either my Secondary School or Sixth Form, and there is no page for my Primary school. Although my father was at school with Timothy Dalton who played James Bond in two films.
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Marti Caine is the only one I know of.
If you're under 25, you probably won't have a clue who she was.
If you're under 25, you probably won't have a clue who she was.
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No one from school, but Joss Stone and Agatha Christie came from the town I live in 
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The school bike, she isn't well known but was bloody famous with the boys at school, lots to do behind the bike shed other than a crafty fag. he,he
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Welsh people went to my school, a couple of international rugby players. I think the only person I recognise is Ieuan Evans.
Emrys G. Bowen - Professor of Geography, Aberystwyth
Nigel Dean Mead - Killed whilst serving in Afghanistan with 42 Commando Royal Marines, Lima Company on 15 May 2011
Ieuan Evans - Welsh international rugby player
Charles Lynn Davies - Welsh international rugby player
Denzil Davies - MP for Llanelli
Richard Edwards (Welsh politician) - Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli, Pembrokeshire
Frederick Farey-Jones - MP for Watford
Thomas Jones-Davies - heart specialist and Welsh international rugby player
Percy Lloyd - Welsh international rugby player
William Norton - Welsh international rugby player
Sir David Williams - barrister and past vice-chancellor of University of Cambridge
I also know that I went to school with one of the Marines that was captured by Iran a few years ago for straying too close to their border.
My primary school doesn't even have a Wiki page.
My 6th Form collage used to be a boys school that Huw Edwards news reader went to.
Emrys G. Bowen - Professor of Geography, Aberystwyth
Nigel Dean Mead - Killed whilst serving in Afghanistan with 42 Commando Royal Marines, Lima Company on 15 May 2011
Ieuan Evans - Welsh international rugby player
Charles Lynn Davies - Welsh international rugby player
Denzil Davies - MP for Llanelli
Richard Edwards (Welsh politician) - Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli, Pembrokeshire
Frederick Farey-Jones - MP for Watford
Thomas Jones-Davies - heart specialist and Welsh international rugby player
Percy Lloyd - Welsh international rugby player
William Norton - Welsh international rugby player
Sir David Williams - barrister and past vice-chancellor of University of Cambridge
I also know that I went to school with one of the Marines that was captured by Iran a few years ago for straying too close to their border.
My primary school doesn't even have a Wiki page.
My 6th Form collage used to be a boys school that Huw Edwards news reader went to.
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My school produced Roy Castle
Not sure if it counts, but my wife's a teacher, and has taught:-
Victor Moses
David Bentley
Danny Cipriani
Lawrence Okoye (Discus at the Olympics the other day)
and an appalling boy band called Blazin' Squad
Not sure if it counts, but my wife's a teacher, and has taught:-
Victor Moses
David Bentley
Danny Cipriani
Lawrence Okoye (Discus at the Olympics the other day)
and an appalling boy band called Blazin' Squad
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Can't think of any famous pupils but Richie Pitt who played for Sunderland in 1973 FA cup final winning team was a maths teacher at my school.
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Bolded and underlined the current most famous person.
Sir Eric Anderson, KT, provost of Eton College
Ian Anderson, MBE, musician with Jethro Tull
The Reverend David Arnott, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2011–2012
Peter Baikie, Scottish comedian and composer
Martin Bell, skier, and four times participant of the Winter Olympics
Douglas Percy Bliss, painter
Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, PC, QC, Lord Advocate, life peer in the British House of Lords
Richard Brownlie-Marshall, designer
Kate Clanchy, writer
Gillian Cooke, athlete and bobsledder
John Corrie, politician, MP, MEP
David Daiches, Scottish literary historian and literary critic
Jack Docherty, Scottish writer, actor, presenter and producer.
Jamie Drummond, Edinburgh-born Canadian sommelier and noted self- publicist
Donald Runnicles, noted conductor
Sir John Charles Fenton, lawyer, Solicitor General for Scotland
Jimmy Finlayson, actor
Jo Fraser, Painter
Keith Fraser (skier), Olympic Athlete 1992
David Maxwell Fyfe, Viscount Kilmuir, Barrister, Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor
Gavin Hastings, OBE, rugby player
Scott Hastings, rugby player
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir Chris Hoy, MBE, Five-time Olympic gold medal winning track cyclist
Moray Hunter Scottish comedian, writer and performer.
Martha Kearney, BBC broadcaster and journalist
Malcolm Martineau, pianist and recital accompanist
Keith Moffatt, physicist
Ronald King Murray, PC, politician and judge, (Labour Party)
Myles MacInnes (known as Mylo), singer-songwriter, music producer, and DJ
Keith McIvor (known as JD Twitch) music producer, and DJ
Ian R. Porteous, mathematician
Hugo Rifkind,journalist
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, KCMG, QC, politician (Conservative Party)
Henry Peel Ritchie, First World War Victoria Cross recipient
Ian Robertson, Rugby Union player and commentator
Gerald Russell, Professor of Psychiatry
Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC, former British MP and Cabinet minister (Labour Party)
Elizabeth Smith, MSP
Robin Smith, mountaineer
Sir Basil Spence, architect
David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC, politician (Liberal Democrats), MP, former leader of the Liberal Party
Tun Dato' Sir James Beveridge Thomson, KBE, SSM, PMN, PJK, lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Malaysia.
Craig Sutherland, professional footballer
Rebecca West, writer and campaigner
Robin Williamson, musician with The Incredible String Band
Jason White, rugby player
Christopher Wood, painter
Sir Eric Anderson, KT, provost of Eton College
Ian Anderson, MBE, musician with Jethro Tull
The Reverend David Arnott, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2011–2012
Peter Baikie, Scottish comedian and composer
Martin Bell, skier, and four times participant of the Winter Olympics
Douglas Percy Bliss, painter
Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, PC, QC, Lord Advocate, life peer in the British House of Lords
Richard Brownlie-Marshall, designer
Kate Clanchy, writer
Gillian Cooke, athlete and bobsledder
John Corrie, politician, MP, MEP
David Daiches, Scottish literary historian and literary critic
Jack Docherty, Scottish writer, actor, presenter and producer.
Jamie Drummond, Edinburgh-born Canadian sommelier and noted self- publicist
Donald Runnicles, noted conductor
Sir John Charles Fenton, lawyer, Solicitor General for Scotland
Jimmy Finlayson, actor
Jo Fraser, Painter
Keith Fraser (skier), Olympic Athlete 1992
David Maxwell Fyfe, Viscount Kilmuir, Barrister, Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor
Gavin Hastings, OBE, rugby player
Scott Hastings, rugby player
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir Chris Hoy, MBE, Five-time Olympic gold medal winning track cyclist
Moray Hunter Scottish comedian, writer and performer.
Martha Kearney, BBC broadcaster and journalist
Malcolm Martineau, pianist and recital accompanist
Keith Moffatt, physicist
Ronald King Murray, PC, politician and judge, (Labour Party)
Myles MacInnes (known as Mylo), singer-songwriter, music producer, and DJ
Keith McIvor (known as JD Twitch) music producer, and DJ
Ian R. Porteous, mathematician
Hugo Rifkind,journalist
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, KCMG, QC, politician (Conservative Party)
Henry Peel Ritchie, First World War Victoria Cross recipient
Ian Robertson, Rugby Union player and commentator
Gerald Russell, Professor of Psychiatry
Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC, former British MP and Cabinet minister (Labour Party)
Elizabeth Smith, MSP
Robin Smith, mountaineer
Sir Basil Spence, architect
David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC, politician (Liberal Democrats), MP, former leader of the Liberal Party
Tun Dato' Sir James Beveridge Thomson, KBE, SSM, PMN, PJK, lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Malaysia.
Craig Sutherland, professional footballer
Rebecca West, writer and campaigner
Robin Williamson, musician with The Incredible String Band
Jason White, rugby player
Christopher Wood, painter
