Any famous people who went to your school?

djfunnyman · 13/10/13 - 19:48

Did anyone famous go to your school? Here's the famous alumni list from my secondary school?

Giles Barnes Footballer currently playing for Doncaster Rovers.
Jacob Mellis Footballer on fringes of Chelsea first team.
Victoria Newton (1983-90), editor of the Bizarre column of The Sun[1] - her father Don was deputy head master.
Adam Newbold Footballer recently released from Nottingham Forest Football Club.
Dan Jarvis Labour MP Barnsley Central from March 2011.

You can also add Chesterfield rising star Tendayi Darwika to that list. David Moyes went to Chesterfield's game at Fleetwood to scout him yesterday

[Deleted User] · 13/10/13 - 20:06

Nick Faldo
David James (he was in the year above me)
Lisa Snowden (she was in my classes in both primary and secondary school)

Tominxster · 13/10/13 - 20:09

Wendy James Transvision Vamp
Natasha Kaplinsky

Jon O · 13/10/13 - 20:09

Keira Knightly, unfortunately I left before she started

Maxatoria · 13/10/13 - 20:11

Neil Morrisey went to the girls school that joined with ours in the late 1980's

Fat Buddha · 13/10/13 - 20:17

J.R.R Tolkien
Anthony Pratt (Inventor of Cluedo)
Don McLean - Crackerjack Presenter

Lewi26 · 13/10/13 - 20:20

Richard Ashcroft from the verve

Leon osman (Everton player)

Archie Duke · 13/10/13 - 20:21

djfunnyman wrote: »

Did anyone famous go to your school? Here's the famous alumni list from my secondary school?

Giles Barnes Footballer currently playing for Doncaster Rovers.
Jacob Mellis Footballer on fringes of Chelsea first team.
Victoria Newton (1983-90), editor of the Bizarre column of The Sun[1] - her father Don was deputy head master.
Adam Newbold Footballer recently released from Nottingham Forest Football Club.
Dan Jarvis Labour MP Barnsley Central from March 2011.

You can also add Chesterfield rising star Tendayi Darwika to that list. David Moyes went to Chesterfield's game at Fleetwood to scout him yesterday

Erm, you do know what famous means ?

A labour MP and a bunch of no hoper pig's bladder molesters,

DrFlowDemand · 13/10/13 - 20:21

I had Rik Mayall's Latin text book at prep school, cool huh?

djfunnyman · 13/10/13 - 20:22

Archie Duke wrote: »

Erm, you do know what famous means ?

A labour MP and a bunch of no hoper pig's bladder molesters,

Those were the people listed as notable alumni on Wiki

yellowpark · 13/10/13 - 20:25

Ian Wright
Paul Elliot and Jimmy Bullard, also famous footballers.
Boy George

xNATILLYx · 13/10/13 - 20:35

Beverly knight went to my secondary school , she has been back several times over the years so its nice she hasn't forgot her roots.

[Deleted User] · 13/10/13 - 20:42

Oscar Wilde
Samuel Beckett
Henry Francis Lyte (wrote the 'football' hymn "Abide with Me")
Neil Hannon (The Divine Comedy)

DaisyBumbleroot · 13/10/13 - 20:50

Bob Mortimer

[Deleted User] · 13/10/13 - 20:53

Damien Duff and David Kitt (Irish singer), oh and Jason Byrne too.

misslibertine · 13/10/13 - 20:53

I live opposite the site where Aneurin Bevan went to school. It was demolished by the time I was born but I attended the school that replaced it.

Croctacus · 13/10/13 - 20:56

yellowpark wrote: »

Ian Wright
Paul Elliot and Jimmy Bullard, also famous footballer
Boy George

BOY George was a couple of years older than my husband at school.

The others didnt go to his school as far as im aware though.

Westy2 · 13/10/13 - 21:13

Noddy Holder at mine, well before my period though.

clarribo · 13/10/13 - 21:21

Um using famous in the loosest sense of the word...Lynsey Dawn Mackenzie. I went to 4 other schools though maybe I should investigate see if can find anyone better!

THOMO · 13/10/13 - 21:24

Well nobody at my school was famous. But my brother found out that after a years he left a grammar school that while he was in the first or second year of that school that Allan Price from the pop band called The Animals from Newcastle Upon Tyne of the 1960,s had been either in the fifth or sixth form of that Grammar School on Tyneside in North East England at that time, but he didn't realise that until he had left school and went on to university and he never actually met or talked to him personally.
Ian.

Toriamath · 13/10/13 - 21:29

No one from my school but Ben Elton and Rufus Hound went to my college

rewind · 13/10/13 - 21:30

Keith Flint from The Prodigy.

Hogzilla · 13/10/13 - 21:31

Yes, only one person. She was in the year above me and seemed a really lovely person - quite unusual in that nest of thugs. She actually stood out because she seemed so... friendly and normal. I was pleased for her when I saw her on telly. She doesn't do TV anymore - married a very famous actor, and left show biz to bring up her kids. The school was huge so I never actually knew her, but remember seeing her about.