Dame Mary Peters (Olympic medal winner) and Gloria Hunniford both went to the same grammar school I went to, but they didn't go at the same time as me owing to the fact that they are both much much older!! lol
Not exactly famous but Scottish rugby players Allan Jacobson and Scott Murray went to my secondary school. I'm sure Scott Murray's mum also taught me PE in primary.
The footballer Garry O'Connor also went to my secondary school.
Andrew Barton, the celebrity hairdresser (and now with his own range of hair products) was in the year above me at school, and his brother was in my year and quite a good mate.
Lisa Faulkner
Katherine Parkinson
Ingrid Oliver (was Pokorski) and Lorna Watson (stand up comedians / actors - Ingrid was in Peep show, is in Material Girl and the film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging)
Rhys Ifans (Actor, was in Notting Hill )
Rhodri Meilir (Alfie in my Family)
Gareth Glyn (broadcaster)
The school next door had
Jonny Buckland (Coldplay)
Andy Nicholls (Author)
Matt Barbet (Presenter)
Emma Jones (Journalist)
Richard Head (Microsoft)
Nick Burke - (Joint founder of the brand, One Pair of Hands (OPH)
Thomas Brooke Benjamin
John McGrath (Writer, director and producer in theatre, film and television)
Myfanwy Talog Williams (TV star in England and Wales)
Andrew Llinares (Executive Producer of The X Factor)
* Peter Short - Rugby player for Bath Rugby & England Saxons
* Graham Kitchener - Rugby player for Worcester Warriors & England
* Charlie Huxley - Professional jockey and 2008 winner of the Scottish Grand National
* Philip Gittus - Manager, Philippine National Rugby Team
Politics
* Peter Butler – Former Conservative MP for Milton Keynes
* Robert Charnock – Conspirator who planned to kill King William III
* Jeremy Corbyn – Labour Party MP
* John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower - Lord Privy Seal 1742-1754, the 1st major Tory to enter government since the coronation of King George I in 1714.
* Thomas Hanmer - MP for Ludlow, Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire
* Charles Sylvester Horne (1865-1914) – MP for Ipswich
* Thomas Hollis – Benefactor of Harvard, political propagandist, patron of Canaletto & other artists
* Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield,PC,MP - Lord Chancellor, Lord Chief Justice, temporary Regent and Sovereign of Great Britain
* Peter Price - Conservative MEP
* Rev. Jon Green - local fame within Cardiff for work with the homeless and poor.
* Sir Richard Whitworth, JP, MP – High Sheriff of Staffordshire aged 21, MP for Stafford 1774-1780
Arts
* Simon Bates – Radio disc jockey
* Michael J. Bassett - Film Director and scriptwriter
* Barrington J. Bayley – Science fiction author
* Tom Brown – Satirist
* Ewen Henderson – Sculptor
* Thomas Percy – Bishop of Dromore, poet, editor & author
* Ripchord - Band
Academia
* William Cureton – Orientalist
* Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge – Inventor & first principal of Birmingham University.
* James E. Quibell – leading British Egyptologist
* Professor David Goulson - Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Stirling (Born 1965) World renowned expert on Bumblebees and founder of the British Bumblebee Conservation Trust
* Professor Maurice Stacey, CBE (1907-1994) – Worked alongside Sir Norman Haworth to artificially synthesize Vitamin C
* Peter D Wootton - Recipient of the 1st Deans' Commendation from Manchester Metropolitan University and active coordinator with the Unite Against Fascism Movement.
Miscellaneous
* Captain Thomas Ashburnham (1855-1913) - 6th Earl Ashburnham
* Keith Jones – Dean of York
* Major General Sir James Lumley KCB - Adjutant General
* Matthew Smith – 17th-century spy, intriguer and writer
* Gerald Lander – Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong
* James Fidgett B.A., M.A., F.S.A. Leading Welsh Archaeologist and Consultant of CADW
* General Sir George Colt Langley KCB (1810-1896) – General, British Army
* Major General Francis Ventris, CB – General Officer Commanding Forces in China
* Rear Admiral Harry Wilson – Rear Admiral, Royal Navy
* Tom Pym - British Chess Champion
* Frank Armstrong - Assistant Commissioner of the City of London Police
Rhys Ifans (Actor, was in Notting Hill )
Rhodri Meilir (Alfie in my Family)
Gareth Glyn (broadcaster)
The school next door had
Jonny Buckland (Coldplay)
Andy Nicholls (Author)
Matt Barbet (Presenter)
Emma Jones (Journalist)
Richard Head (Microsoft)
Nick Burke - (Joint founder of the brand, One Pair of Hands (OPH)
Thomas Brooke Benjamin
John McGrath (Writer, director and producer in theatre, film and television)
Myfanwy Talog Williams (TV star in England and Wales)
Andrew Llinares (Executive Producer of The X Factor)
Mine aren't so much celebrities, as children of celebrities. Bono's children all went to my school, also the Edge's two daughters, Chris de Burgh's daughter and former Miss World Rosanna Davison, Pat Kenny's daughter (Irish TV host), couple of German princesses.. Parent-teacher meetings were interesting, my mum was behind the Edge in the queue, didn't have a clue who he was and was like 'WHO's that thug?!'
Comments
*Sara Cox
*Bernard Wrigley
*Paul Nicholls (was Greenhalgh at school)
*Stu "crush a grape" Francis.
*Amir Khan
Can't think of anyone else
Even though I know it's him, still can't watch that film *shudder*
The footballer Garry O'Connor also went to my secondary school.
Did you know her well ? What was she like ??
Ahh I used to love come outside.
Katherine Parkinson
Ingrid Oliver (was Pokorski) and Lorna Watson (stand up comedians / actors - Ingrid was in Peep show, is in Material Girl and the film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging)
But my partner has some - author Terry Pratchett... MI5's"Dotty" David Shayler and chef Heston Blumenthal.
Rhys Ifans (Actor, was in Notting Hill
Rhodri Meilir (Alfie in my Family)
Gareth Glyn (broadcaster)
The school next door had
Jonny Buckland (Coldplay)
Andy Nicholls (Author)
Matt Barbet (Presenter)
Emma Jones (Journalist)
Richard Head (Microsoft)
Nick Burke - (Joint founder of the brand, One Pair of Hands (OPH)
Thomas Brooke Benjamin
John McGrath (Writer, director and producer in theatre, film and television)
Myfanwy Talog Williams (TV star in England and Wales)
Andrew Llinares (Executive Producer of The X Factor)
Dominic Brunt (Paddy - Emmerdale)
Mina Anwar (Constable Habib - The Thin Blue Line)
Julie Hesmondhalgh (Hayley - Corrie)
I was in the same school play as 'Hayley'!!
Ysgol Maes Garmon, I'm going to guess
Mark Herman (film director) ... although that was later at Polytechnic
Shaun Evans (was the gay teacher in 'Teachers' and was in a film with Annette Benning)
Mike Flowers Pops!