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[Henry Blanco]

Not from where I currently live, but a girl I went to primary school with while I lived in Lincoln is now a (I assume moderately successful) fetish model. Which is weird, because I just remember her as an 8 year old desperately in love with Robson and Jerome.

That's how it starts.

[Steve Sensible]

I just remember her as an 8 year old desperately in love with Robson and Jerome.

Speaking of which, Robson Green lives in my mum's old house just down the road from me in West End. I don't think he's from there though - isn't he a geordie...?

[David Meadows]

isn't he a geordie...?

Born in Hexham, Northumberland, so not technically.

[garjones]

My home town of Port Talbot is notable for punching way above its weight in the acting game:

Richard Burton
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Michael Sheen
Rob Brydon

oh and Paul Potts, which is better than Pol Pot anyway.

Penang gave rich women shoes:

Jimmy Choo

[Scott Wilkinson]

James MacAvoy is originally from Port Glasgow . . . Richard Wilson is from Greenock . . . and as Gordon mentioned John Wagner (a Yank by birth) grew up in Greenock . . .

[David Meadows]

I've just discovered that Carl Palmer (god of drummers) was born in the same town as me, Handsworth in Birmingham

Actually there seem to be be a lot of musicians hailing from Handsworth, according to wikipedia. But... Carl Palmer

[brucegray666]

Not a lot of people have come from Keith. Colin Hendry (one time Scotland football captain who's last act in an international fixture was to elbow and KO a rival player) was at school at the same time as my mum and dad. And that's all I can really think of.

Aberdeen, which is where I call home now, has a few more famous people. Closest connection to the house where I'm living would be Annie Lennox who went to school at Harlaw Academy (about 500 m up the road). The school have a plaque up declaring this fact and a signed report card on display too.

[John Brook]

William Shatner, Celine Dion, Jay Baruchel and Leonard Cohen are the ones that come to mind.

[Ulf Imwiehe]

Composer and big band leader James Last was born in Bremen, where I hang my hat:

[Don Lerch]

Philip Seymour Hoffman is from my hometown Fairport, Ny ( which has nothing to with the Fairport Convention so no folkie jokes, thank you)

[HowardAshton]

The Happy Mondays are all from just down the road from me, so you do tend to meet a lot of people who's parents knew Bez and Shaun Ryder. Then there's all the other famous Mancunians, of which there are thousands so I wont go into naming all of them. One night while drunk, me and a friend of mine set off on a quest to find Morrissey's house, we were in Didsbury, apparently it's around there. We didn't find it.

[garjones]

Then there's all the other famous Mancunians, of which there are thousands so I wont go into naming all of them.

I think we can narrow down from Manchester. It's a big city, especially if you want to include Greater Manchester.

There's no science behind it but the Londoners, Glasgow and Brummie examples here picked districts of the cities that may equate more to a typical town.

[John Coughlan]

William Motherfucking Wallace.

Allegedly. He may have been from another town in Scotland with a similar name. But we have a replica of some ruins of a house that he may or may not have set foot in during his many one-man battles with England.

[craggy]

Not from where I currently live, but a girl I went to primary school with while I lived in Lincoln is now a (I assume moderately successful) fetish model. Which is weird, because I just remember her as an 8 year old desperately in love with Robson and Jerome.

I kinda makes sense that someone who listened to a lot of Robson and Jerome now puts themselves in potentially painful situations, them boys were a gateway drug!

Anyway, Dundee has given the world:
The actor, Brian Cox
football bloke Craig Brewster
Danny Wallace (which, does sort of make sense, but I never got a Dundonian vibe off him...losing that might explain his success)
David Blair, who some blame for sinking the Titanic (yes Mr Cameron, we'd like a cut of the movie profits! )
Dudley Watkins, creator of The Broons and Desperate Dan, was a Mancunian but came here to work, creating some of the most iconic British comics characters
George Galloway, politician
Dame Jacqueline Wilson, author of the Tracy Beaker books
Olympic silver medallist runner Liz McGolgan
tv presenter Lorraine Kelly isn't from here, but she is here, now and then when there's a photo op
Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein
bands The Law and The View
and finally, one for our cousins across the pond...
former Cleveland Indians baseball player Thomas David Waddell


I only knew about 4 or 5 of them, and the site I stole the list off has dozens more from the realms of politics and engineering and medicine and other growed-up stuff.

William Motherfucking Wallace.

dude, he's Australian.

[ditta]

The only famous thing about my town is that it is the home to that god awful football team, Accrington Stanley. Referenced in this 80s advert-


Can't think of anyone famous. I'm not sure whether I can't or I just don't want to.

[David Chapman]

Aberdeen, which is where I call home now, has a few more famous people. Closest connection to the house where I'm living would be Annie Lennox who went to school at Harlaw Academy (about 500 m up the road). The school have a plaque up declaring this fact and a signed report card on display too.

And despite this, she still claims to have gone to the Albyn School for Girls (which is just up the road, and is considered much classier - and as an ex-Harlaw pupil myself, I must agree).

My home village of Prestwich gave the world Godley and Creme (of 10cc), Mark E Smith (who still lives there) and Victoria Wood. It was also home to William Sturgeon, creator of the first electromagnets.

[Chris D]

I went to high school with a few Olympians, and a few others went to schools only a few miles down the road and still live in town, apparently. Natalie Coughlin is probably the most well known of those. There was also this girl in my high school class that went on to become a fairly famous porn star.

[HowardAshton]

I think we can narrow down from Manchester. It's a big city, especially if you want to include Greater Manchester.

There's no science behind it but the Londoners, Glasgow and Brummie examples here picked districts of the cities that may equate more to a typical town.

Well then if we narrow down to Little Hulton then I've got The Happy Mondays and Christopher Ecclestone, but I'd still argue that people from right the other side of the city are still from where I'm from, to say "I'll get the bus into town" in all areas means ending up in the same place, I've seen DJ sets by people like Peter Hook and Mike Joyce numerous times in the places I'd normally go on nights out, and then Liam Gallagher goes to see every Manchester City match like a hell of a lot of people I know, they might live quite a way away but they all are involved with stuff that I identify with as where I'm from. I think Manchester is defined by its music and culture much more than any city, Joy Division, Oasis, The Stone Roses, Old Trafford, Manchester United and Coronation Street are really what I think makes Manchester, and that's really apparent around the city centre which I'd class as my little corner of the world.

[craggy]

There was also this girl in my high school class that went on to become a fairly famous porn star.

I don't think we can let you off that easily, but then...I am somewhat wary of our red-named overlords mods.

I think Manchester is defined by its music and culture much more than any city,

I like how patriotic (?) you are. It's cute.

[Chris D]

I don't think we can let you off that easily, but then...I am somewhat wary of our red-named overlords mods.

I won't post any links, but her professional name was Penny Flame.