Joseph Wright
Alan Bates
Maxwell Cauldfield
Julia Watson
Gwen Taylor
Judith Hann,
Kevin and Terry Lloyd
Des Coleman
Michael and Lauren Socha
Jack O'Connell
Geoff Hoon
Richard Felix
Stan Barstow - Writer
Andrew Burt - Actor
John Carr - Architect
The Cribs - Band
Janet Davies - Actress
Reece Dinsdale - Actor
Jean Fergusson - Actress
Helen Fielding - Author
Don Fox - Former Rugby League player
Neil Fox - Former Rugby League player
Peter Fox - Former Rugby League player
Emily Freeman - Athlete
Martin Frobisher - Explorer [found the Northwest Passage]
Noel Gay - Composer
George Gissing - Novelist
John George Haigh - aka the Acid Bath Murderer (grew up in Wakefield)
John Harrison - Clockmaker [solved the longitudinal problem, leading to sea power and GMT]
Barbara Hepworth - Sculptor
Kenneth Leighton - Composer
Anne O'Hare McCormick - Journalist [first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize]
Brian McDermott - Rugby League player and coach
David Mercer - Playwright
Henry Moore - Sculptor
Paul Newlove - Former Rugby League player
Carolyn Pickles - Actress
John Radcliffe - Physician
Annabel Scholey - Actress
Richard Stoker - Composer
David Storey - Novelist and Playwright
Paul Sykes - Boxer
Mike Tindall - Rugby Union player
Jane Tomlinson - Athlete and Fundraiser
Charles Waterton - Naturalist
Robert Ullathorne - Former Footballer
Frank Lloyd Wright
Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan creator)
Ernest Hemingway
Sam Giancana (mafia crime boss)
James Dewar (inventor of the Twinkie)
Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's)
Richard Sears
Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson)
Anna Chlumsky (My Girl)
Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory, Roseanne)
Kathy Griffin
John Mahoney (Frasier)
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Bob Newhart
Betty White
John Avildsen (director of Rocky and The Karate Kid)
Daws Butler (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound)
Ludacris
However I feel I should point out that whilst William Harvey was the Royal Physician to James I, King Charles I and the young King Charles II he was never actually knighted. I guess the whole regicide and civil war screwed things up somewhat.
He was just plain William Harvey, no Sir.
PS - Further less famous sons and daughters include Walter Tull (first black infantry officer, and top flight football player), Noel Redding (bassist with Jimi Hendrick), Hattie Jacques (Oh matron!), Phil Vicker (TV chef) and Brendan (the driver from Coach Trip).
There are also a number who, though not born here, became residents such as Michael Bentine (goon), June Brown (Dot Cotton), Samuel Plimsol (he invented a line) and HG Wells (author)
Tony Robinson, comedian and broadcaster.
Jonathan Ross and his brother Paul Ross
June Sarpong MBE, television presenter.
Rita Simons, actress, singer and model
Talvin Singh, musician.
Harold Spurr, English cricketer.
Andros Townsend, footballer.
Actually that raises a point, whilst the list of famous people born in Milton Keynes can grow and grow my home town's famous sons and daughters is done and dusted.
For the past 20 odd years there hasn't been a maternity ward here, everyone is rushed up the motorway to (ironically enough) the William Harvey Hospital. So apart from the odd home birth or people caught out in a taxi no one will be born here and Ashford will get to claim them all.
Will Hay
Ivy Close - early English film siren - relative of Glen Close
At least one member of the Moody Blues
I went to the girls' part of the school Ridley Scott attended - but a long time later.
Jamie Bell and the recent X factor winner live near, also Chris Rhea from these parts.
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Well if famous residents are coming into it, I up you one Ian Flemming and add an Alan Minter
eta.... there was some old bloke a few months ago in the pub that was claiming to be in Last of the summer wine
Alan Bates
Maxwell Cauldfield
Julia Watson
Gwen Taylor
Judith Hann,
Kevin and Terry Lloyd
Des Coleman
Michael and Lauren Socha
Jack O'Connell
Geoff Hoon
Richard Felix
Stan Barstow - Writer
Andrew Burt - Actor
John Carr - Architect
The Cribs - Band
Janet Davies - Actress
Reece Dinsdale - Actor
Jean Fergusson - Actress
Helen Fielding - Author
Don Fox - Former Rugby League player
Neil Fox - Former Rugby League player
Peter Fox - Former Rugby League player
Emily Freeman - Athlete
Martin Frobisher - Explorer [found the Northwest Passage]
Noel Gay - Composer
George Gissing - Novelist
John George Haigh - aka the Acid Bath Murderer (grew up in Wakefield)
John Harrison - Clockmaker [solved the longitudinal problem, leading to sea power and GMT]
Barbara Hepworth - Sculptor
Kenneth Leighton - Composer
Anne O'Hare McCormick - Journalist [first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize]
Brian McDermott - Rugby League player and coach
David Mercer - Playwright
Henry Moore - Sculptor
Paul Newlove - Former Rugby League player
Carolyn Pickles - Actress
John Radcliffe - Physician
Annabel Scholey - Actress
Richard Stoker - Composer
David Storey - Novelist and Playwright
Paul Sykes - Boxer
Mike Tindall - Rugby Union player
Jane Tomlinson - Athlete and Fundraiser
Charles Waterton - Naturalist
Robert Ullathorne - Former Footballer
Coincidently I don't watch television though
We're very proud :cool:
Do I win?
Actually, I just googled it and found that James motherf**king Bond (Daniel Craig) was born just down the road from me.
How cool is that?!
Off to do more investigating.
I might be able to tell people I went to school with James Bond. :cool:
Van Morrison.
C.S. Lewis.
*closes Wikipedia*
Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan creator)
Ernest Hemingway
Sam Giancana (mafia crime boss)
James Dewar (inventor of the Twinkie)
Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's)
Richard Sears
Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson)
Anna Chlumsky (My Girl)
Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory, Roseanne)
Kathy Griffin
John Mahoney (Frasier)
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Bob Newhart
Betty White
John Avildsen (director of Rocky and The Karate Kid)
Daws Butler (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound)
Ludacris
However I feel I should point out that whilst William Harvey was the Royal Physician to James I, King Charles I and the young King Charles II he was never actually knighted. I guess the whole regicide and civil war screwed things up somewhat.
He was just plain William Harvey, no Sir.
PS - Further less famous sons and daughters include Walter Tull (first black infantry officer, and top flight football player), Noel Redding (bassist with Jimi Hendrick), Hattie Jacques (Oh matron!), Phil Vicker (TV chef) and Brendan (the driver from Coach Trip).
There are also a number who, though not born here, became residents such as Michael Bentine (goon), June Brown (Dot Cotton), Samuel Plimsol (he invented a line) and HG Wells (author)
So is that Chipping Sodbury where she claims to have been born\livedfor a bit or Yate where she was actually born\lived for a bit?
Brian Cox, the original Hannibal Lector
Well I can manage The Rolling Stones...
Anniversary of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Dartford meeting
Keith also went to my old school, albeit a couple of decades before me, however I didn't get expelled.
Oh, and I see it's Keith Richards' birthday today.
Phil May (Lead singer, and one of the founder members, of The Pretty Things)
Pete Tong
My word, my town seems to have been quite musical.
It's also where the engineer Richard Trevithick died.
Jonathan Ross and his brother Paul Ross
June Sarpong MBE, television presenter.
Rita Simons, actress, singer and model
Talvin Singh, musician.
Harold Spurr, English cricketer.
Andros Townsend, footballer.
To name a few.
I'm claiming these too .Since I was born in Portsmouth ,and literally no one of note as ever been produced from across the water where I live !
Lock up your sons!
Actually that raises a point, whilst the list of famous people born in Milton Keynes can grow and grow my home town's famous sons and daughters is done and dusted.
For the past 20 odd years there hasn't been a maternity ward here, everyone is rushed up the motorway to (ironically enough) the William Harvey Hospital. So apart from the odd home birth or people caught out in a taxi no one will be born here and Ashford will get to claim them all.
My older one is 18 so probably within her target age range.....
Ivy Close - early English film siren - relative of Glen Close
At least one member of the Moody Blues
I went to the girls' part of the school Ridley Scott attended - but a long time later.
Jamie Bell and the recent X factor winner live near, also Chris Rhea from these parts.