The Biggest/Best/Sexiest Celebrities from Your Area.

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The Biggest/Best/Sexiest Famous People from Your Area.

Ok I had this idea for a thread. And i thought it would be quite good :) (i hope)

List known people from your area, whether they are Actors, authors, footballers etc etc. Ill start.

South Shields/Neighbouring Towns.

Ridley Scott - Director of Blockbuster movies. Born here in 1937
Eric Idle - Monty Python. Born in South Shields
Richard Wallace Annand - First Victoria Cross recipient of the Second World War.
Catherine Cookson - Novellist, she wrote lotsa books that made TV adaptions :)
William Woodhave - Inventor of the First functional Lifeboat
Sir Frank Williams - Owner of the Williams F1 race team. Born in Jarrow, Bout 3 miles from me
Steve Simonson - Goalkeeper for Stoke now i think, was at everton and one of the highest priced Goalkeepers at the time. Grew up down my street, used to play football with him as a kid, know the family etc.


Do a bit research guys, I used Wikipedia for some of my South Shields people.

Lets make an interesting thread for once on GD :)
 
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captain cook, born about 500 metres down the road from me

chubby brown
Bob Mortimer
Kirsten O'Brien
Paul Daniels
Journey South :p :p
Chris Tomlinson


most famous of all according to wiki is Karaoke legend Harold Bishop lookalike Andrew :confused: :p

not forgetting the PARMO
 
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Besides me theres -

Robbie Williams
Captain Smith who sank the Titanic
Reginald Mitchell who invented the Spitfire
Garth Crooks who was my best mate
SPIE

can't think of anybody else.
 
Patricia Routledge &
Nicholas Lyndhurst
ohhh and Lesley Joseph (maybe not anymore)

:(

Not exactly buzzing with celebs down here

/Edit: Following the advise of the OP I decided to check wiki for more celebs in my area I found none but I did find
Bognor Regis was placed at number 28 of The Idler magazine's 'Crap Towns' list of UK towns for 2004.
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LOL thats why I prefer to be associated with Chichester.
 
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This is an easy one for me.

Lessee, Eminem born and raised 2 miles from me, Uncle Kracker has a house 10 mins from me, where Kid Rock parties occassionally. Which reminds me: the Halloween party will be coming up soon. With any luck Miss Anderson will show up again. :D

Bob Segar (singer), born and raised in Dearborn (15 mins), along with Henry Ford (I was married at his Mansion).

Almost too many to list from Detroit, but I'll do a little research.

Diana Ross
Sonny Bono
Alice Cooper
Harry Houdini
Charles Lindbergh
Ted Nugent
Ray Parker, Jr.
Smokey Robinson
Tom Selleck
Tom Sizemore
Tom Skerritt
Malcomn X
Christie Brinkley
Pam Dawber (Mork & Mindy!)
Rosa Parks
Gilda Radner
Lily Tomlin


Heh heh, George "The Animal" Steele and Sgt. Slaughter both grew up here as well, for any old-school wresting fans.
 
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Lewisham:
* Ginger Baker — drummer, musician
* Daniel Bedingfield — singer
* Natasha Bedingfield — singer
* Rosa May Billinghurst — Suffragette
* Kate Bush — singer
* Walter de la Mare — novelist
* Jude Law — actor and Hollywood Film Star.
* Edith Nesbit writer and Fabian
* David Sylvian singer
* Ian Wright — Former England football player
 
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Besides me theres -

Robbie Williams
Captain Smith who sank the Titanic
Reginald Mitchell who invented the Spitfire
Garth Crooks who was my best mate
SPIE

can't think of anybody else.
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Slash.
 
David Beckham at Leyton just down the road (5 mins drive)
Lennox Claudius Lewis (the boxer) at West Ham, literally 2 mins walk from me
Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor born just down the road by tube at Mayfair
My mate Troy from Forest Gate is in Championship Manager

They'res loads from where I am :)
 
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this guy doesnt live too far away (5minutes?)
 
I sometimes (rarely actually) drink with Beckah from Hollyoaks in my local. I had a drunk conversation with her last night about which dogbreed is the best.

I definitely would.
 
List of famous residents of Newcastle upon Tyne
From Wikipedia

Born in Newcastle

* Rudolf Abel - Soviet super-spy
* Thomas Addison - Diagnostician (Addison's Disease)
* Donna Air - Television presenter
* Mark Akenside - Poet and physician
* Paul W. S. Anderson - Film maker, producer and screenwriter
* Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - Light entertainers (Ant and Dec)
* Lord Armstrong - Engineer and industrialist
* Ove Arup - Architect and civil engineer
* Mary Astell - Writer ('The first English feminist')
* Vanessa Atkinson - Squash player
* Peter Beardsley - Footballer
* Israel Brodie - Chief Rabbi of Great Britain
* Basil Bunting - First English modernist poet
* Eric Burdon - Singer (The Animals)
* Lord Collingwood - Nelson's second-in-command at Trafalgar
* Jack Common - Writer, friend of Orwell
* John Dewhirst - The only Briton to die in the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
* Lord Eldon - Lord Chancellor of England
* Elizabeth Elstob - Anglo-Saxon scholar
* John Forster - Friend and biographer of Dickens. The model for Mr Podsnap.
* Lee Hall - Playwright (Billy Elliot screenplay)
* John Hancock - Zoologist (Hancock Museum)
* Tim Healy - (actor)
* Alan Hull - Musician (Lindisfarne)
* Basil Hume - Cardinal in Roman Catholic church
* Charles Hutton - Mathematician
* Wilfred Josephs - Composer
* (Gavin) Graham Laidler - Cartoonist ('Pont' of Punch)
* Ian La Frenais - TV scriptwriter ('Porridge', 'The Likely Lads')
* Lady Lucinda Lambton - Writer, photographer, television presenter and producer
* Hank Marvin - Guitarist, singer, and songwriter
* Esther McCracken - Playwright
* Janet McTeer - Oscar nominated actress
* Jimmy Nail - Actor, singer, and writer
* Ross Noble - Comedian and radio presenter
* Brian Redhead - Author, journalist and broadcaster
* Lewis Fry Richardson - Meteorologist
* Sue Rolph - Swimmer
* Lord Stowell - Legal authority
* Alan Shearer - Footballer
* Nancy Spain - Author, journalist and TV personality
* Thomas Spence - Utopian writer
* George Stephenson - Locomotive engineer; Father of the Railway
* Robert Stephenson - Son of George, locomotive engineer, railway and bridge builder
* Peter Taylor, Baron Taylor of Gosforth - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
* Andy Taylor - Musician, Duran Duran
* Bill Travers - Actor
* Cheryl Tweedy - Member of pop group Girls Aloud
* Lord Woolf - Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Residents (past and present)

* David Almond - Prize-winning author (Skellig)
* Charles Avison - Composer and impresario
* Rowan Atkinson - Actor
* William Beilby - Glass enameller
* Nick Bell - Entrepreneur
* Thomas Bewick - Engraver and ornithologist
* Sid Chaplin - Writer
* Catherine Cookson - Co. Durham born author
* Joseph Cowen - Radical MP and newspaper owner
* John Cunningham - Pastoral poet, dramatist, 'Love in a Mist' and stage actor
* Richard Dawes - Classical scholar
* John Dobson - Architect
* Jonathan Edwards - Olympic champion
* Eca de Queiros - Diplomat and novelist, 'the Portuguese Dickens'.
* John Meade Falkner - Head of Armstrongs and novelist (Moonfleet)
* Terry Farrell - Eminent modern architect
* Mrs Gaskell - Novelist
* Tony Harrison - Poet
* Oliver Heaviside - Engineer, mathematician and physicist
* Arthur Henderson - Politician, founder of the modern Labour Party
* Eva Ibbotson - Children's writer (Which Witch?)
* Harold Jeffreys - Geologist, mathematician and astronomer
* W. E. Johns - Adventure writer (Biggles)
* Brian Johnson - Lead singer of (AC/DC)
* Mark Knopfler - Dire Straits guitarist
* John Knox - Scottish religious reformer
* Jean-Paul Marat - French revolutionary
* John Martin - Painter
* Harriet Martineau - Writer and journalist
* Mary Midgley - Philosopher
* Charles Mitchell - Shipbuilder
* Sir Andrew Noble - Arms manufacturer and scientist
* Charles Parsons - Engineer
* Michael Roberts - Poet and critic
* Diana Ross - Children's author (The Little Red Engine)
* William Bell Scott - Poet and Pre-raphaelite painter.
* Jon Silkin - Poet
* John Snow - Anaesthetist and founder of epidemiology
* Sir James Calvert Spence - Paediatrician
* Cecil Philip Taylor - Playwright
* Bruce Welch - Guitarist, singer, and record producer
* Denise Welch - Actress
* John Wesley - Founder of Methodism
* Kevin Whately - Actor
* Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosopher
* Yevgeny Zamyatin - Russian novelist, (We)

:p

Actually.... I don't know why half of them are considered famous! :confused:
 
Taken from " The Nowhere Guide "

" (Famous residents and ex-residents.)

* Kev F, Clevedon's stand up comedian (been on late night Channel 5, I think)
* MC Mikee Freedom who once had a No.1 hit with a group called Nomad in 1991 is from Clevedon
* It's generally thought that Sid Vicious attended Clevedon Comp (before he was Sid, of course). There's a daft woman who lives at Walton Castle who thinks she's a celebrity but is actually something entirely different!
* James Thie International Middle Distance Runner for Great Britian
* I've heard rumours that there was a rather infamous person who holidayed in Clevedon... Oswald Mosely, wartime leader of the British equivalent of the Nazis. "

Oh, and Jane Gilchrist - Opera singer and winner of Operatunity

Forget London and New York..... This is Clevedon :D
 
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