Your town's famous sons and daughters.
Flat Matt
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Who are the most famous and influential people to be born in your home town?
I'm from Portsmouth and we have a couple to be reckoned with.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Charles Dickens, no less, were born in Portsmouth, as was Peter Sellers.
It's also a little known fact that Arthur Conan Doyle made a few appearances playing in goal for Portsmouth FC.
The bloke who was in kids TV show, Bodger and Badger, is also from Portsmouth.
I'm from Portsmouth and we have a couple to be reckoned with.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Charles Dickens, no less, were born in Portsmouth, as was Peter Sellers.
It's also a little known fact that Arthur Conan Doyle made a few appearances playing in goal for Portsmouth FC.
The bloke who was in kids TV show, Bodger and Badger, is also from Portsmouth.
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Beat that!
I'm sure we can do better than that though! Gotta have more important people than Portsmouth surely
So Leedswise, er... Hmm.... Some Kaiser Chiefs? Vic Reeves! Writer Keith Waterhouse. Em... Ernie Wise... Marco Pierre White... and ah Wikipedia came to my aid.
Wow. Paxman!
ETA: Jimmy Savile, anyone remember him?
Pete Sutcliffe wasn't from far away either.
Reece Shearsmith
Amy Johnson
William Wilberforce
Mick Ronson
John Venn (diagram)
To name a few
You'll never do better than Brunel or Dickens and I bet a famous writer never played in goal for Southampton either.
Ah, but did he ever play in goal for the local team?
He was too busy monkeying around for football.
and we have adopted Bradley Wiggins where I live now and I think Bill Beaumont comes from my adoptive town too.
Hogz you need to hide :eek::D
James Hogg (1770–1835), poet and author
Gideon Lang, Australian pastoralist and parliamentarian
Bobby Johnstone (1921–2001), Scotland international footballer and a member of the Hibernian Famous Five forward line
Sandy McMahon (1871–1916), Scotland international footballer and Celtic's eighth highest all-time top goal scorer
Andrew Lang (1844–1912), poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology
James Marr Brydone (1779–1866), surgeon who sighted the French fleet, signalling the beginning of the Battle of Trafalgar
James Brown (J.B. Selkirk) (1832–1904), poet and essayist
Peter Blake (b. 1951), film and television actor
Rae Hendrie (b. 1977), television actress
Tom Scott (1854–1927), artist
John Rutherford (b. 1955), Scotland international rugby player and British and Irish Lion, won 42 caps at fly-half for his country, at the time a record in that position
Tibbie Tamson, alleged to be, either, a victim of the Scottish witch trials, a suicide victim, a plague victim or a murder victim
Frightened Rabbit, indie rock band
Says wikipedia
They call it the Halifax Triangle.
Apparently, most of the 19thC/20thC serial killers were born in a triangle you can draw across West Yorkshire, I know one point of it is Halifax - forget t'others.
Reginald Christie, Sutcliffe... but also the 19thC/20thCs most famous hangmen (also serial killers) like Berry and Pierrepoint were born within the West Riding Triangle of Doom.:D
OOh I envy you Bill Beamont. Wish he had played for Scotland.
Judy Dench
Guy Fawkes
David Steel (former Liberal Party leader)
Val McDermid (novelist)
Gordon Brown (former PM)
Sandford Fleming (inventor of time zones)
Guy Berryman (Coldplay member)
Richard Park (from Fame Academy)
Jocky Wilson (darts player)
Bon Hope
Edith Nesbit
I'm absolutely made up about that!
Sir Robert Peel
Elbow
Danny Boyle
Cherie Blair
Richmal Crompton
The blonde one from Hear'Say
Victoria Wood
Of all the famous and prestigious people that could be born in your town, we have Fred Bloody Dibnah.
And christopher maloney
OK, he's not exactly Darwin or Dickens, but he's still pretty cool.