Famous(ish) people from your hometown

Naitch · 26-11-2005, 08:26 PM

Obviously if you're from London, you could list roughly 8 million famous people from there, but try to keep it in your general area.

Anyway, well known people from my hometown of the lovely Derry include (with helpful pics)

Fantastic band, The Undertones. Everyone knows and loves 'Teenage Kicks' and it was called the best song of all time by Mr. John Peel

Dana. She won the Eurovision Song Contest, like 100 years ago and she is still milking that for all its worth.

Former leader of the SDLP, civil rights activist and Nobel Prize winner, John Hume. Doing his best Fonz impression.

The incredibly fast talking, nervous, but highly good at his job, former manager of Celtic. Martin O'Neill.

Nadine Coyle from Girls Aloud. That is all.

Christof · 26-11-2005, 08:29 PM

Braintree's finest are - The Prodigy.

Sawbridgeworth is home to David Beckham.

Popsi · 26-11-2005, 08:32 PM

Well Jk Rowling is from a village near where i live,

Grant from feeder is from the area,

as is Jem.

And norman wisdom lives here. But thats as far as our claims to fame go.

Danny Styles · 26-11-2005, 08:33 PM

hymm Flitwick... what is there in befrodshire and flitwick..

that guy from popidol who got kicked out in the first live round

and paula radcliffe

Slim Jim · 26-11-2005, 08:36 PM

The only one I could think of is me.

MrFill · 26-11-2005, 08:38 PM

Going back through history a little:

When I lived in Wimbledon, well, lots of tennis players, this including meeting Anabelle Croft.
Windsor Davis also lived just up the street from me.

I lived in Croydon, apparently John Tickle lives there now.

Our previous address was Marietta, Georgia - ex-home of Lita, Mick Foley, Bull Buchanan and Road Dogg.
Current home of Buff Bagwell (one of the guys who stayed with us met him).
Robert Patrick (the T1000 in Terminator 2) was born there, Travis Tritt the country singer lived there.

How's that?

Christof · 26-11-2005, 08:41 PM

Ah, another famous Braintree person. If anyone remembers say probably 9, 10 years ago now there was a fat ginger ugly girl (13 at the time I believe) who married a Turkish waiter? Anyone remember her? Sarah Cook was her name, well she was in my year at school.

http://www.zawaj.com/weddingstories/komeagae.html

Top story

wyndorf · 26-11-2005, 08:42 PM

Roger Daltry and Bob Hoskins live up the road, not together mind......

A girl a couple of years below me at school, got her breasts out in the Daily Star. She works in the hairdresser's in town.

Proudy · 26-11-2005, 08:45 PM

Stoke-on-trent, we got...

Music
Robbie Williams
Slash
Murdoc Niccals (bassist for Gorillaz)

Sport
Phil "The Power" Taylor
Robbie Earle
Sir Stanley Matthews

TV
Nick Hancock
Jonathan Wilkes
Anthea Turner

Other
Captain Edward Smith (of the RMS Titanic)
Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Spode
Lance-Sergeant John "Jack" Daniel Baskeyfield (awarded the Victoria cross)
Reginald Mitchell (designer of the Spitfire)
John Robert Madejski

Some of them aren't mega famous (Jonathan Wilkes, Robbie Earle etc) some are (Robbie, slash etc) and some should be more recognised, in IMO anyway (Reginald Mitchell, John Baskeyfield)

Ryan · 26-11-2005, 09:07 PM

Great Missenden - Roald Dahl...

..well he lived there, a few dooors up the road from my Dadio.

Amy · 26-11-2005, 09:16 PM

The bloke who plays the prime minister in little britain lives near me,as does Alison Goldfrapp,all of massive attack,tony robinson....harry potter was filmed down the road.
does this count?

Ryan · 26-11-2005, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amy

harry potter was filmed down the road.

you dont happen to have a Snipper Rifle in your room by your window do you

MrFill · 26-11-2005, 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amy

The bloke who plays the prime minister in little britain lives near me,as does Alison Goldfrapp,all of massive attack,tony robinson....

I've heard that a certain Chris2K lives close to you... oh wait, he's not famous, more infamous.

Telf · 26-11-2005, 09:21 PM

The only one than springs to mind from Guernsey would be Matt Le Tissier

Slim Jim · 26-11-2005, 09:27 PM

Ok so after a little Googling, I found some people. None of them are really very famous, but you might know of some. While reading through some of them, memories of some of them come flooding back.

So here we go... famous people who were born, have lived, live, or can be found in Hitchin. I'm only including people I have heard of, or appear to be quite famous.

We'll start off with Peter England. Not very famous actor that if I remember correctly used to be friends with my sister. Has been in "I hate this house", "Married for Life", "Family Affairs", he was Matt in "Matt's Million", and has appeared in "Casualty" and "Teachers".

Next is Ben Hull who played Lewis in "Hollyoaks".

Kevin Pilkington played for Man Utd, Rotherham, and is apparantly the Mansfield Town captain.

Valarie Singleton from Blue Peter was born here. Oooh.

Pam Rhodes from Songs of Praise. Her son actually dated my sister. If I watched Songs of Praise, I would have been so impressed.

Kevin Phillips - footballer of Sunderland and England.

Romeo from So Solid Crew. You know the one - "he's the kind of guy that you wanna get deep with". That makes me feel so much safer.

Bob Hope apparantly has some relatives here including a cousin and an aunt.

Former newsreader Richard Whitmore lives just down the road from me apparantly.

Claire from Steps.

Golfer Nick Faldo.

I know someone who once saw Paul from Big Brother 2 in town.

And last but not least (infact most importantly), god knows where this info came from, but the guy from the Ronseal adverts. The one that does exactly what it says on the tin.

Also it's well documented that many cast members of Hollyoaks (mostly past) can be/have been seen around town. God might know why, there is nothing to do. My sister once saw the guy who plays Ben in a local pub once (note it's always my sister who meets all the celebs).