Most Famous Person From Your Town.....

[jd_1984]

My towns most famous people are......

(wikipedia)

Sophie Abelson, actress
Harold Ackroyd VC MC, recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War I
Jean Alexander, actress
Marc Almond, lead singer of Soft Cell
Sidney Allinson, novelist and military historian
Michael Arlen, author and playwright
Robin Askwith, actor
Gavin Blyth, journalist and ex-Emmerdale producer
Lucy M. Boston, author and patchwork quilt maker
Dora Bryan, actress
Jon Burton, founder of Traveller's Tales
Ryan Collinson, actor, singer, dancer, gymnast (Billy Elliot, West End),[74]
Richard Corbett, MEP
John Culshaw, record producer
Lord Fearn, politician
Paul Gardner, footballer
Alan Groves, footballer
Francesca Halsall, swimmer
Ollie Halsall, guitarist
Frank Hampson, artist, creator of Dan Dare
Alan Hansen, footballer, television pundit
Anthony Holden, writer
Jan Holden, actress
Sophie Howard, glamour model
Jennifer Kendal, Indian and British actress and theatre personality, wife of famous Indian actor Shashi Kapoor
Liz Kessler, author
Tony Jordan, writer
Andrew Lancel actor
David Lonsdale, actor
Lee Mack, comedian
Ginger McCain, racehorse trainer
Neil McDermott, actor
David Mitchell, author
Johnny Mitchell, American football player
Rev. Marcus Morris, creator of the Eagle comic
Olly Peacock, drummer for the band Gomez (also from Southport)
Anthony Quayle, actor
Arthur Richardson, VC
Miranda Richardson, actress
Jimmy Rimmer, footballer
Michael Rimmer, 800m athlete
Stuart Rimmer, footballer
William Rimmer, composer and conductor
Jack Rodwell, footballer
Tony Rodwell, footballer
Adrian Scott Stokes, painter
Leonard Stokes, architect
A. J. P. Taylor, historian
Tony Waiters, footballer
Marcus Wareing, chef
Edmund Whittaker, mathematician

[Baldric]

You seem to have forgotten to mention which Town it is?

[EvianBaby]

Mark Webber lives in the village I work in.

I don't think anybody famous lives in Aylesbury.

[jd_1984]

Southport, Merseyside

[jd_1984]

Mark Webber Formula 1 driver??

[sir.prize]

Billy Wright, footballer
Captain Matthew Webb, Channel swimmer
Johnny Hancocks, footballer
Gordon Richards, jockey

[Tilly2]

Robbie Williams (Stoke)

[Tilly2]

Aw, people have got to put the town or it's pointless!

[ummmm]

Dunno :-(

Alan Carr, probably.

Shakespears granddaughter lived at the house (now a museum) a few mins away from where I live. She is also buried close by.

[EvianBaby]

Yep, that one JD.

[EvianBaby]

One of the London bombers lived round the corner from me, but I don't think he counts.

[jd_1984]

Evianbaby, perhaps not!

[Baldric]

The only famous thing to come out of where I live now is; Hampton Pier,
N/Kent

[tiggerblue10]

Dame Peggy Ashcroft
Martin Clunes
Ronnie Corbet
Tracy Emin
DH Lawrance
David Lean
Kate Moss
Sue Perkins
Dan Stevens
Amy Winehouse
Ian Wright

[ummmm]

I used to look after Ben Cohen :-)

[Stephen_G]

John Walker, inventor of the Friction Match
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_inventor

Thomas Sheraton, the Furniture maker.

Actors Will Hay, James Gaddas, Stephen Tompkinson and Daniel Casey (Played Sgt. Troy in the early series of Midsomer Murders - I was at School with him).

Jimmy James and Eli Woods (Uncle and Nephew), famous for the "Shoebox" sketch, that they later performed with Roy Castle.

[Davethedog]

The Queen or maybe the duchess of Cambridge

[tiggerblue10]

Forgot to say town - Croydon.

[Sqad]

jd_1984.

You have forgotten MITCHELL QUY who was jailed for murdering his wife and cutting her up into small parts.

[EvianBaby]

Amy Winehouse?

You sure about that?

[Stephen_G]

Bleedin' wikipedia links...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(inventor)