I've just been through town and its chocker (i live in a little town in Somerset) all because Jenson Button, who comes from Frome is in the town, i've actually never seen so many people in town. Personally i don't see the obsession but each to there own i suppose. It'll be good for local business if nothing else.
So, what famous people come from your town?
CommentAuthorNicci
Erm.....Lee Brennan from 911, Paul Simpson who played for Man City and Roxanne Pallet-Carlisle is pretty cr*p! lol
CommentAuthorMrs (Dove) Pidgeon
A lot LIVE near here as I'm pretty close to London.
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CommentAuthorMrsSandiBillany
Not as c**p as Frome lol.... I'm not sure there is anyone other than Jenson Button.
Charles de Gaulle Napolean Charles Darwin The guy who came up with changing the clocks
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CommentAuthorginge23
Billy Connelly I love him x
CommentAuthorNicci
OMG i adore Billy Connelly-im gutted ive never seen him live :( x
CommentAuthorMrsd2b
Alan carr !! lol oh and princess Diana tho that was northamptonshire so not sure that counts. xx
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CommentAuthorginge23
Nicci Iv never seen him live either but seen every DVD about 10 times my dad loves him to xx
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
ok we have the ashley cole and cheryl well we did, chris evans, roger taylor, anthea turner, sue barker. damon hill, seb coe, peter stringfellow eergh! phil collins, michael ball, dean richards, jonny wilkinson quite close and my mum there are more but cant remember.
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CommentAuthorNicci
WOW Alsbetty!
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CommentAuthorVx Debz xV
I'm stuck with Jenson Button too ... oh and Deborah Meaden (from Dragon's Den) lives close, as does Damon Hill, Russell Howard is from Weston, which is close by, Craig Charles (red dwarf), Jethro, Benny Hill, Bill Bailey and Justin Lee Colins. There's also a few film stars in Chard.
CommentAuthorVx Debz xV
Alsbetty, who's your mum?
CommentAuthorVx Debz xV
Oh and Ian botham
CommentAuthorMrs (Dove) Pidgeon
So, the full list from that famous online encyclopedia
# Steve Bennett, football referee # Emma Johnson, clarinettist, BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1984 # Josie Long, standup comedian # Eric Lubbock, politician # Sir John Lubbock, banker and politician # Gary Rhodes, chef # Barry Knight, football referee # David Nobbs, comedy writer, was born in Orpington # Kim Medcalf Eastenders # Jeremy Beadle, TV presenter, writer and producer # Leslie Grantham, Eastenders # Frank Pullen property developer, racehorse owner # Kevin Bishop, Actor, comedian, Star Stories # Deena Payne, Emmerdale # Ben Greenhalgh, Winner of 'Football's Next Star', Inter-Milan U-20 Playe # Jack Dee, comedian and winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2001 # Cerrie Burnell, disabled CBeebies presenter # IT Man Mortimer, historian # Toby Sims, number 45 Sunday Times Rich List 2010 # William Willett, promoter of Daylight Saving * Malcolm Campbell, former land and water speed record holder, was born in Chislehurst and is buried in St. Nicholas Parish Church next to his parents. * Richmal Crompton, author of the Just William series of books for children of all ages. * Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, President of France 1848–52, Emperor of the French 1854–70. * Alan Watts, philosopher, born and raised in Chislehurst, moved to the United States in 1938. * William Willett, a campaigner for daylight saving time, lived most of his adult life in Chislehurst. * Sir Francis Walsingham, spy master to Elizabeth I, and his son, Sir Thomas Walsingham. * Siouxsie Sioux, singer, most famous for being in the band Siouxsie and the Banshees * Gianfranco Zola - Former Italy and Chelsea footballer, and current manager of West Ham United. * George Somers Leigh Clarke (1822–1882, eminent architect lived at Walpole, Manor Park and number a important local houses. He is buried in the St Nicholas' churchyard. * E. J. May (1853–1941), architect, lived locally and designed a number of local buildings.
Now a extremely happy German housewife and now a Mother!!!!
Islay Jean born 24th June in Hannover.
CommentAuthorBeckythemadcow
Craig David!!
Matt Le Tissier! I'm sure there's plenty of historical people from Southampton but that's all I know for modern celebs!
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
i luuurve Jenson button thats why my fox at work is called Jenson haha everyone mum is famous aren't they!? haha
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CommentAuthorMrs Mara Tester
From Crawley we have
Alan Minter - Boxer The Cure - 80's(?) band and of course the wonderful Gareth Southgate... the famous scapegoat of England's football team, in the world cup in the 90's
I can't believe we've actually done it
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CommentAuthorVx Debz xV
LoL awww, My mother ... No ... I'd simply rather she crawled back under the rock she found her way out from recently. :)
CommentAuthorMrs Alsbetty
damon had 2 houses i think then, we went and rescued a deer from his house poor thing, his dogs had got out and got it he felt awful!! poor man
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Currently baking a small person at last, took a while :)
CommentAuthorMrs Mara Tester
Oh yea, Big Brother's Eugene Big Brother's Nadia once lived here and X-Factor's Chico of 'Chico Time' fame lives here Miss Dynamite
I can't believe we've actually done it
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CommentAuthorMrs Badger
Ken Livingstone Peter Davison (Dr Who) Naomi Campbell (went to the school h2b works at) Paul Merton (comedian, lived here) John Galliano (fashion designer) Henry Tate Aleister Crowley (spent teenage years here) Apparently yorkshire ripper peter sutcliffe used to sleep overnight in the common car park in his lorry when in London
Now a Mrs!
"..I've seen the best and the worst of you and I understand
with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of
of a woman. You're the one..."
CommentAuthorJoolsy
Sir Alex Ferguson went to the high school I went to obvs well before I did lol xx
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CommentAuthorb2bnicola
Ant & Dec :) Michelle Heaton - hearsay - went to my school - i did singing lessons with her AND beat her to a part lol Cheryl Cole :) xxx
Happily Married! :) xxx
CommentAuthormoodypryor2
sir francis drake, sharron davies, tom daley, wayne sleep, angela rippon, had to look these up though cos im not from here lol, dawn french;s mum lives pretty close, i have seen dawn about x
CommentAuthorFaye
1. Ocean Colour Scene 2. Black Sabbath 3. Ozzy Osbourne 4. Lenny Henry 5. Halifax man :) 6. Cat Deely 7. Duran Duran 8. UB40 9. John Cadbury 10. Jasper Carrot
Thats all I can be bothered to do.... anyone guess where i'm from???
CommentAuthorcasbride87
Phil Taylor is my neighbour, Robbie williams, peter kay and bruce forsyth have golf houses on my estate
CommentAuthorHelloKitty
I don't know about where I live but a few 'celebrities' were born in my home town.
Lisa Snowdon (Model) Alesha Dixon (Singer) Aiden Turner (Actor) Nick Faldo (Footballer) Edmund Purdom (Actor) David James (Footballer) Mick Tylor (Guitarist) Steven Rhys Lewis (Director)
There are more but can't remember their names.
CommentAuthorMrsBrain
I come from Bristol, so quiet a few famous people went to our uwe, like Derren Brown, Ewan Blair (Son of Tony Blair PM), Hugo Weaving,Matt Lucas and David Walliams (Little Britain) and Lee Evans.
Cary Grant was born here, and Justin Lee Colins. And Nick Park, who works for ardmin, infact my H2B worked for Ardmin so knows him, oh and my H2B's dad is kinda famous, hes Terry Brain, the guy who wrote, directored and animated 'Trap Door' and 'Stop it and Tidy Up', and he also animated on Chicken Run :) xx
CommentAuthorPuddleduck87
Sheridan smith The chuckle brothers
............wow lol
CommentAuthoreebeegeebee
Ugh loads......ones that come to mind are Anastacia, Richard Ashcroft, David Attenborough, Richard Attenborough, Syd Barrett, Rod Burton, Richard Clarke, Richard E Grant, Jerry Hall, Amanda Holden, Mick Jagger, Brian May, Robert Pattinson lives near here, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Wood has a house here I think. Saw Kate Hudson strolling down the high street once while she was visiting her mom :P
CommentAuthorMrsBrain
Robert Patterson, oh I'm so jealous! x
CommentAuthoreebeegeebee
I am SO hoping I run into him one of these days....:P
CommentAuthorclaire1984
I dnt know if there is anyone famous from Nuneaton iv only lived here a year- but luckily im a brummie and Frank Skinner got expelled from my high school :-) x
Maisie Moo Moo
CommentAuthorPennylane
Paulo Nuttini and Gerard Butler come from where I used to live - does that count?
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CommentAuthorskitty666
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i dont no many but looked online and the list is: Edric the Wild Robert Clive "Clive of India" Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, Napoleonic era general Lords and Ladies Craven (of Stokesay Castle) Abraham Darby early industrialist Charles Darwin eminent naturalist Charles Babbage early computing pioneer (lived at Dudmaston Hall) William Penny Brookes, founder Wenlock Olympian Games, founding father, International Olympic Movement K. K. Downing, guitarist with Judas Priest William Farr epidemiologist and early bio-statistician Craig Phillips of Newport, winner of Big Brother 2000 (UK) Chris Hawkins (of Loppington), radio presenter, DJ, and celebrity Eglantyne Jebb of Ellesmere, Social reformer and founder of the Save the Children Fund George Jeffreys of Wem, (infamous judge) Adrian Jones, sculptor of the Quadriga at Hyde Park Corner Stephen Marchant, ornithologist Len Murray, (former head of the T.U.C) Mirabel Osler, author Wilfred Owen leading First World War poet Edith Pargeter (1913–1995), author Edmund Plowden (1518–1585), legal scholar and theorist Sir Edmund Plowden (1590–1659), Proprietor, Earl Palatine and Governor of New Albion Barbara Pym novelist Isobel Cooper (Izzy) famous opera singer from Much Wenlock T'Pau, 1980s pop group Sir Philip Sidney prominent Elizabethan Mary Webb (1881–1927), author Stewart Lee, Stand-up comedian, writer and director. Matthew Webb, (first man to swim the English Channel) Billy Wright, Captain of Wolves and England Humphrey Kynaston (1474–1534), highwayman John Mytton 'Mad Jack' Mytton, Regency rake, MP, gambler and horseman. William Wycherley Restoration dramatist and playwright famous for The Country Wife Roy Wood, of Wem, in the band Wizard Alison Williamson, of Whitchurch Bowmen, Archery Olympic bronze medallist Edited spelling*
CommentAuthorskitty666
omg the only ones ive heard of is Abraham Darby, Charles Darwin and Craig Philps lmao
CommentAuthorlala "mod" bunni
sandra and debz ...trevor peacock ...( vicar of dibley man ,,,no ,no,no,no yes) also lives in one of the villages near you two ....Sarah parish comes from same town as you debz...( her mum is my sisters godmother)
Oohh i didn't know that. Where does the Vicar of dibely man live?
I actually just looked at the 'Frome' hall of fame.
Apparently Lois Maxwell (miss moneypenny) used to live here. Charlie Higson (comedian and actor apparently) Samuel Portway (who, he has a road named after him but i don't actually know who he is) and Christina Rossetti (famous poet apparently) and her mother used to run a school here.
