The "FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM YOUR AREA" Thread

[Lubricant]

i didn't know about 5ive or mariah. and rowin atkinson lives near wheatly :]]

;o didn't know he lived in Wheatly

Soo many famous people in Oxfordshire. It's the place to be!

[benjamin]

;o didn't know he lived in Wheatly

Soo many famous people in Oxfordshire. It's the place to be!

oh yes :8

[Misawa]

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.

[-Soph-]

Yvette fielding lives in my little town

[brapbrap]

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.

WHat footballer.

[Lubricant]

Blondie, Will Young and this other guy played in my village! ;D

[NintendoFreak]

Robert Linsey - My Family - Ben
Ken Barlow actor - Coronation Street
Erm can't think really!@

[Rockstar]

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

[allykin]

Jo whiley (Radio 1 DJ)
Northamptonshire

[beer]

me find betta list specifically from wakefield:

edit: betta list from wikipedia:

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

oh also we got ian huntley. he resides in wakefield prison :p