Celebrities from your city/area/state

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or area or street or region or celebrities from the next town if you don't have any from your city/village

NAME THEM IF YOU CAN!

Annie Lennox - singer, oscar winner
Denis Law - Footballer, played for Manchester city AND united
Lord Byron, born in london, but raised here!
B.C. Forbes - FOUNDER OF FORBES MAGAZINE
Andrew Clark - Physican
Paul Lawrie - Golfer
Evelyn Glennie - virtuoso percussionist
Sandi Thom - from the shire.
ELVIS PRESLEY - YEAAAAH BIG BOYEEEEEE, ok not really but you can trace his roots back to the shire

wikipedia is your friend

yeah lord byron was always in gossip magazines, right beside Paris Hilton's ancestors

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i knew hackney had a mighty list but not this mighty get aload of this lot

Steven Berkoff (playwright and actor
Tony Blair - (British Prime Minister, lived in London Fields in the early 1980s)
Marc Bolan (musician - born in Homerton)
Richard "Abs" Breen (solo singer and in boy band Five, born in Hackney?)
Eric Bristow (darts player)
Michael Caine (actor, educated at Hackney Downs School)
Phil Collen (Guitar player for Def Leppard)
Pete Doherty (Musician)
Idris Elba (television, theatre and film actor, and a hip-hop soul recording artist)
Colin Firth (actor, lived in Sutton Place, Homerton)
Edmond Halley (astronomer - born in Haggerston)
William Hazlitt (writer - studied in Homerton)
Shaka Hislop (goalkeeper for West Ham United and Trinidad and Tobago born in Hackney)
Alfred Hitchcock
Ronald and Reginald Kray (gang leaders, born in Hoxton)
Leona Lewis (singer, songwriter, first female winner of UK talent contest X Factor )
Martine McCutcheon (actress and singer)
Anthony Newley (actor, singer )
Harold Pinter
Edgar Allan Poe (writer - educated in Stoke Newington)
Iain Sinclair (writer - lives in Haggerston)
Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden guitarist]]
Sir Alan Sugar (businessman)
Jessica Tandy (actress, born in Clapton)
Dick Turpin (notorious highwayman)
Sid Vicious (musician)
Barbara Windsor (actress, born in Shoreditch)
Ray Winstone (actor)
Mary Wollstonecraft (reformer and writer, mother of Mary Shelley)

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SHOW OFF!

oh so you've listed people who have lived in hackney too then!

Sid and Leona Lewis are both from Hackney how exciting its good to know that hackney is filled with people of all personalities I always thought that Sid was a North london lad.

hehe I'm imagining Sir Alan Sugar running after Pete Doherty shouting "you're fired! you're fired, you're fired" in a very ken russellesque way

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i edited the list down to avoid showing off

i listed people who learned their skills here

Hackneys on the North/east borders some of it is in north london Sid and Johhny Rotten went to college here its where they met in fact

i CAN IMAGINE PETE DOING A SAD FACE AND sUGSY FORGIVING HIM LIKE ALL THE JUDGES SEEM TO

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oh really? I always thought that it was a east london and inner city borough, I guess me and wikipedia and facts are all wrong

actually I thought it was in the highlands

yeah pete saying "maybe you could open a drugs factory in hackney? I know a man that sells the stuff you could do a little business deal... NOT THAT I DO THE STUFF PATTOOEY" made him forgive him what a charmer


Brian Cox
George Galloway
Janet Keillor or something, she invented marmalade.

are all from my neighbouring town! wayheeeey/Booo

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the bit leonas from is in the north london section of it

its in the lowlands

he gets away with so much i think a judge would say ''with this drug factory youve shown a willingness to change well done ''

Brian Cox was the first lecter dont you know

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and the bit where pete doherty lives is in the area where sweets are banned

yeah he goes to court every week, and gets off with a warning I bet theirs people in Jail who want to kill him now, since people get put in jail for nothing compared to what he does, the judges must be libertine fans

I didn't I thought that was Jim Davidson!

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i think most of his arrests are due to sherbert smuggling

if i was judge id say its ten years in prison unless you reform the libs!

good god that would be stomach turning

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Warwick Davis, actor (Star Wars/Willow)
Norman Wisdom, comic actor
Simon Starling, Turner Prize 'Shedboatshed' winner
Alex Inglethorpe, footballer
Tom Szekeres, actor
Glyn Johns, recording engineer and record producer
Jimmy Page, rock guitarist, founding member Led Zeppelin
Jimmy White, snooker player
Nici Sterling, adult film actress
Alex Kingston, actress, ER attended Rosebery
Terence Reese, bridge player
Mel Giedroyc, actress and comedienne
Petula Clark, singer
Andrew Castle, GMTV presenter
Jack Ashley, Labour MP now Baron Ashley of Stoke
Tim Vine, comic actor, "The Sketch Show"
Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 Presenter
Evelyn Glennie, musician, attended Rosebery
Betty Boothroyd, first female speaker in the house of commons after 700 years, attended Rosebery
Tom Felton, actor
Efan Ekoku, footballer
Petula Clark

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Wow...

Prince is from my home town.. my mom knew him growing up.
And Josh Hartnett (sp) is from my home town also... he used to live in my best friend's neighborhood... I think his family still lives there. I never knew him though.

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i used to watch Alex Inglethorpe in his orient days

does your mum have prince stories and memories ?

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I forgot Mark from A1

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thats pretty remiss

i shouldnt have just relied on wiki , as they failed to note Sanjay from eastenders lives here too

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ernoldsame said:

does your mum have prince stories and memories ?

She says she remembers there was this place all the kids would go to hang out and Prince would be there playing guitar and stuff. I don't think they were buds but yeah.

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what a cool scene to have been part of she should make up some lies like she was a backing singer with him