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

[lankeela]

And apparently The town’s most recent claim to worldwide fame was as the home to composer Sir Malcolm Arnold for the last two decades of his life: he wrote the Attleborough Suite, opus 78 of his oeuvre, as a salute to the town, and composed other pieces there including his Divertimento for Wind Octet. Before old age curbed his activities he used to play impromptu pieces at a local hotel, at times accompanying his trumpet playing – held in his left hand – with the piano attacked with his right.

[horseshoes]

Wayne Hennessy goalie for Wolves!

[Caran]

Cinderford FOD, Jimmy Young

[Answerprancer]

May not have actually been "from" but definitely were/are resident or active here:
Rick/Tim Butler (Psychedelic Furs), Thomas Sopwith, Harry Hawker, Fred Sigrist, Eadward Muybridge, Ronnie Wood, Jimmy Tarbuck (from memory not Wikipedia).

[craft1948]

Judi Dench............

[Sparkles62]

Ian Rush. Footballer
And most recently, Jade Jones, won Tae kwando gold medal in the olypics last year.

[MadMen]

John Cleese...

[Sparkles62]

Olympics even...and the town is Flint

[parkie]

I counted over 30 but just a few from Colchester.
Pop group-Blur
TV presenter, Dermot O'Leary. (My daughter and SIL used to work with him)/
Bill Dines, Cricketer.
Klaus Kinski, actor. Former WW2 POW in Colchester.
Jane Taylor, poet and author, (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star).
Mary Whitehouse, TV Campaigner.
Sir William Gull. Physician to Queen Victoria and named Anorexia Nervosa.
Finally, not a person, as such, but still well known, Humpty Dumpty, (canon).

[hollie1586]

Lizzie Armitstead, British cyclist. Lizzie won our first medal of the 2012 Olympics.

David Thomas Broughton, folk singer and guitarist.

General J N R (Nick) Houghton KCB, CBE, Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff.

Julian Sands, Actor

The Chevin (band) Alternative rock band

Mike Tindall, England Rugby Union Captain

[cupid04]

I have a 'Fifteen to one' champion where I live.

[hollie1586]

Forgot to say went to school with Harlequins/England rugby player Danny Care

[tamborine]

Prince Charles & his ole duch (holiday home)
Prince Andrew, Sarah & fam
Toni Gardner (ex QOJordan)
Elton John
Rolf Harris
am bored now but there's plenty more down the river

[Answerprancer]

Do you live in Bray, Tambo?

[joeluke]

Stan Laurel

[Eve]

Charles Darwin I think though Ellis Peters too who wrote the Cadfael books.

Just read T'Pau were formed there, didn't realise that!

Joe Cole went to my school along with a lad who has been in a number of programmes over here and is now in a US drama.

Christopher Timothy too.

I lived in the same street as Tony Warren who writes/wrote Corrie at one point. I won't even start on Manchester where I am now, loads of them!

[emmie]

here are a few

http://listverse.com/2012/09/29/top-10-famous-londoners/

[emmie]

and a lot more

http://www.localhistories.org/lonfam.html