;o didn't know he lived in WheatlyQuote:
Originally Posted by lethal
Soo many famous people in Oxfordshire. It's the place to be!
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;o didn't know he lived in WheatlyQuote:
Originally Posted by lethal
Soo many famous people in Oxfordshire. It's the place to be!
oh yes :8Quote:
Originally Posted by Hardcore
Err...Billy Idol grew up 10 minutes away from me, that's about it really...
I have an Italian premiership footballer, a famous doctor and Lord in my family history though...I'm also Janet (Street-) Porter's cousin.
Yvette fielding lives in my little town ;)
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Originally Posted by Misawa
WHat footballer.
Blondie, Will Young and this other guy played in my village! ;D
Robert Linsey - My Family - Ben
Ken Barlow actor - Coronation Street
Erm can't think really!@
Same street as stefan klos rangers keeper and billy connely has a home like across the road where he goes for break's sometimes pretty cool guy spoe to him in the summer when he was their
Jo whiley (Radio 1 DJ)
Northamptonshire
me find betta list specifically from wakefield:
edit: betta list from wikipedia:
oh also we got ian huntley. he resides in wakefield prison :pQuote:
Famous people born in or near Wakefield
- Adele Stevens - Adult Entertainer
- Anne Elizabeth McCormick - Journalist, first woman to win the Pulitzer prize
- Barbara Hepworth - Sculptor
- Bill Nelson - Rock Guitarist, Singer/Songwriter
- Charles Waterton - Naturalist
- David Hope - former Archbishop of York
- David Mercer - Playwright
- David Storey - Novelist and playwright
- Denis Parkinson - Grand Prix winner and commentator
- George Gissing - Novelist and misanthrope
- Henry Moore - Sculptor
- John George Haigh - 1940s serial killer known as the Acid Bath Murderer
- John Harrison - Clockmaker, the genius who solved the longitudinal problem, leading to Sea Power & GMT
- John Radcliffe - Scientist and founder of the eponymous library in Oxford
- Jonty Parkin - Former Rugby League Player and England Captain
- Wayne Rockett - Local activist sung about by the band Obvious Pseudonym
- Kenneth Leighton - Composer
- Martin Frobisher - Explorer, found the Northwest Passage
- Mike Tindall - England and Gloucester Rugby Union Player
- Noel Gay - Popular Composer
- Paul Sykes - Boxer
- Robin Hood - Outlaw, his fight with the Pinder of Wakefield being commemorated in the song "George a Green"
- Jane McDonald - Singer and Television Personality
- Jonathan M. Stone - 2006 National President of Junior Chamber International (JCI) United Kingdom (formerly known as British Junior Chamber of Commerce)
- John Healey - Politician and the present Financial Secretary to the Treasury
- David R Thompson - Currently governor of Wakefield Prison
- The Cribs - Rock band