Famous folk from your school

Famous folk from your school

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thatone1967

4,193 posts

192 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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crxdave said:
Sharon Carr - the youngest female killer in Britain.
One sick twisted bh.. I remember the Katie Ratcliff murder well, I worked in the same industry as her father, and apparently he took her murder very badly ( as I am sure anyone would).

caymanjames

2,971 posts

159 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Guy Fawkes went to mine, on bonfire night we do not put a Guy on the bonfire as that would be burning an old boy.

jimnicebutdim

374 posts

156 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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I went to a notoriously st school in Gosport
Notable attendees included:
Keith Allen (Fat Les and Lilly's dad)
Marcus Patrick (some cock in Hollyoaks)
Becky Ansell (a runner of some description)
and me!
Oh and quite a few criminals and scum bags. In fact we had a 15year old girl who got her baps out in the Sport, some guy who killed himself whilst stealing industrial machinery and quite a few Trisha/Jeremy Kyle guests.


Edited by jimnicebutdim on Monday 22 August 11:31

Roboraver

438 posts

163 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Alexander McQueen CBE (Fashion designer), Lonvoy Primus (Footballer), Micah Hyde (Footballer) quite a few others but they are mostly footballers !!

bucksmanuk

2,311 posts

171 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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The school
Marc Almond from Soft Cell (don't think is correct)
John Culshaw OBE, classical record producer and Head of Music Programmes at the BBC from 1967-75
Arthur Davidson, Labour MP for Accrington from 1966-83
Air Vice-Marshal Peter Dodworth CB OBE, Station Commander of RAF Wittering from 1983-5
Michael English, Labour MP for Nottingham West from 1964-83
Ronnie Fearn, Baron Fearn, Lib Dem MP for Southport from 1987-92 and 1997-2001
Frank Hampson artist and creator of Dan Dare
Michael Weston King, singer
David Lonsdale, actor
Michael Meadowcroft, Liberal MP for Leeds West from 1983-7

And the college bit, although I didn't go to that
Sarah Barrand, actress
Sophie Howard, glamour model (ooo-er)
Joanne Nicholas, Badminton player
Stacey Roca, actress

celticpilgrim

1,965 posts

244 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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blueg33 said:
Excluding me smile Famous people from my school are

Tony Clarke (born 1941, died 2010), one of music’s pioneering producers of the late sixties and seventies and known as ‘the sixth Moody Blue’ Perhaps his most famous creation was "Nights in White Satin".

David Moorcroft (born 1953), athlete .

Neil Back (born 1969), rugby union player who has played for the English national team.

Danny Grewcock (born 1972), rugby union player who has played for the English national team.

Tom Wood (born 1986), rugby union player, currently playing for Northampton Saints and the English national team.
I see you went to Woodlannds then, blueg, I went to Cardinal Newman myself, can't think of anybody famous, although my mate rob used to play keyboards for Billy Ocean!!

mattdaniels

7,353 posts

283 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Gareth Southgate

Simbu

1,796 posts

175 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Tom Croft (England rugby player) was in the same year as me at my school.

Martyn Ashton (mountain biker)

Roo

11,503 posts

208 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Shamelessly C+P from wiki:

Politics & Government
• Dr Roderick Pullen, Ambassador to Zimbabwe from 2004-6, and High Commissioner to Ghana from 2000-4
• Adam Sampson, Legal Services Ombudsman since 2009, and Chief Executive from 2003-89 of Shelter
• Philip Wynn Owen CB, Director General of National Climate Change since 2009 at the Department of Energy and Climate Change

Media, Television & Film
• James Burke, the popular science TV presenter
• Andrew Dilnot CBE (briefly), Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford since 2002, and former presenter of BBC Radio 4's More or Less
• Tony Hart, artist, children's TV presenter (Vision On/Smart)
• James Hillier (actor)
• Shaun McKenna, screenwriter
• Stuart Miles, Blue Peter presenter from 1994-9
• Tom Mullarkey, Chief Executive since 2006 of RoSPA
• Tom Riley, film and television actor
• Gavin Rowe, twice BAFTA nominated Director, BPG, MMA

Sport
• David Flatman, Bath Rugby Union player
• Tom Parsons, Kent and Hampshire county Cricketer
• Frank Sando, Olympic athlete
• Steven Haworth, professional wrestler also known as Nigel McGuinness and Desmond Wolfe

Science & Academia
• Prof Peter Day, Fullerian Professor of Chemistry from 1994–2008, and Director of the Royal Institution from 1991-8
• Frank Finn, ornithologist
• Peter Heather, historian
• Prof Geoffrey Hosking, Professor of Russian History from 1984-2007 at University College London
• Prof William Morfill, Professor of Russian from 1900-9 at the University of Oxford
• John Orrell, theatre historian
• Leslie Parris, art historian
• Prof Bill Saunders, Professor of Endodontology, and Dean of Dentistry since 2000 at the University of Dundee, and President from 1997-8 of the British Endodontic Society

Military
• Captain Ben Babington-Browne, of 22 Engineer Regiment of the Royal Engineers, killed on 6 July 2009 after a Canadian Bell CH-146 Griffon crashed in Zabul Province, Afghanistan[5]
• Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton CB, Commandant from 1874-84 of RMC Sandhurst
• Air Vice-Marshal Philip Hedgeland CB OBE, expert in airborne radar, Station Commander from 1966-7 of RAF Stanbridge, and helped develop the H2S radar in the war at the Telecommunications Research Establishment in Malvern
• Air Marshal Sir Timothy Jenner CB, Station Commander of RAF Shawbury from 1987-8
• Rear-Adm Ronald Paffard CB CBE
• Charles de Salis, wartime intelligence officer

Art, Music & Literature
• William Alexander (painter)
• Daniel Blythe, the writer
• James Butler (artist) MBE, sculptor
• Philip Langridge CBE, world-famous tenor
• Philip Moore, Organist of York Minster from 1983–2008, Organist of Guildford Cathedral from 1974–83
• Christopher Smart, poet
• Yeborobo, musical group (members thereof)

Other
• Richard (Dick) Beeching, Baron Beeching, who oversaw the closure of many railways in the 1960s
• Julius Brenchley, explorer

A lot of them I've never heard of and there's a couple on that list that aren't particulalry popular.

Flying Toaster

270 posts

154 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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There are two famous people from my school. The first is Ian Lavender who played pike in dad's army, but that was back when it was a grammar school. The other person is Mike skinner or 'The Streets'.

Donkey Punch

27 posts

168 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Jeremy Kyle. Beat that.

Alx323

421 posts

204 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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TheGreatSoprendo said:
A whole bunch of rugby players, including JPR Williams, Gavin Henson, Robert Howley, Dafydd James, Dr Jack Matthews, Mike Hall and Gareth Williams.

Also Nicole Cooke (Olympic cycling champion), Maria Miller (Coservative MP), Carwyn Jones (current first minister for Wales).

Finally, Lyn "the leap" Davis (Olympic long jump gold medallist) used to teach there.
Bit late (well over a year) but Brynteg School! Small world

thatone1967

4,193 posts

192 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Donkey Punch said:
Jeremy Kyle. Beat that.
Would love to.. with a rather large bat.

.:ian:.

1,960 posts

204 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Pretty poor selection from my school, despite being a Grammar school in a nice area..

Roger Moore (though only for a few weeks during WW2) and someone who was later arrested for being a terrorist!
Bizarrely I was in the same year as 2 of those listed in wikipedia, though I would count neither as being famous..

Peter Atkins - physical chemist and textbook author
Steve Chandra Savale - guitarist with Asian Dub Foundation
Chris Cleave - author
Graham Fitch - concert pianist & master-teacher
Roger Hammond – professional racing cyclist
Greg Hands – Conservative MP for Chelsea & Fulham
Dave Legeno – actor (Fenrir Greyback in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Kenneth Page Oakley - anthropologist & son of Tom Page Oakley, Headmaster of DCGS
Alexis Petridis - rock & pop critic
Dominic Raab - Conservative MP for Esher & Walton
Arthur Reynolds – missionary & author
Abdul Waheed – (born Donald Stewart-Whyte), two years after leaving Challoner's, he was arrested in connection with the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
Rick Warden – actor

North West Tom

11,533 posts

178 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Donkey Punch said:
Jeremy Kyle. Beat that.
A lot of people from my school are probably guests on Jeremy Kyle.

ShiggyBiggs

713 posts

175 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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AFAIK, one guy who I dont even know the name of played a game of football for Northern Ireland.
No one else that I know of.

CarTimeNow

956 posts

167 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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from mine ( have a couple and yes i wiki'd):

Dame Vivienne Westwood,
Stuart Hall, TV and radio presenter - famous for It's a Knockout and his grandiose-style football commentaries.
Michael Casey OBE, Chief Engineer Channel Tunnel Rail Link 1989-90
James Hurst CBE, Engineer


Russell Anderson, Scotland international footballer, former captain of Aberdeen F.C. and now signed to Derby County
James Beattie, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at University of Aberdeen, Marischal College.
Lord Byron, poet, famous poems include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. His statue stands in front of the school.[21]
William Robinson Clark, Dean of Taunton and Prebendary of Wells and Professor of Theology, mental and moral philosophy at University of Toronto, Canada.
Craig Clunas, Professor of Art History at University of Sussex, SOAS and Oxford University.
Ernie Cohen, noted London Solicitor[citation needed]
Robin Cook, former cabinet member and Secretary of State, now deceased.[22]
Kyle Coetzer, Scottish Cricketer
Alexander Cruden, theologian, author of Cruden's Bible Concordance.
Andrew Cruickshank, Film and television actor.
Martin Dalby, composer[23]
Sir James Donaldson, former Principal of University of St Andrews, Professor of Humanity at University of Aberdeen, Rector of both Stirling High School and Royal High School of Edinburgh.
Sir David Ferrier, FRS, neurologist and psychologist.33 [24]
Kat Flint, singer-songwriter.
James Gibbs 18th century architect.[25]
Paul Gough, RWA Professor of Fine Arts, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK [26]
Iain Gray, Chief Executive, Technology Strategy Board and former MD Airbus UK[27]
David Gregory, Professor of Mathematics at University of Edinburgh, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University. Commentator on Isaac Newton's Principia.
Eric Grove, Professor of Naval History, University of Salford
David William Lacy, Moderator of the General Assembly, 2005.
James Legge, first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University.
Eric Linklater, author.
Hector Munro Macdonald, Scottish mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society in 1901, of Edinburgh in 1905 and was awarded the Royal Society Royal Medal in 1916.[8]
Neil Mackie, international tenor
David Masson, Scottish writer.[28]
John McLeod (composer)[29]
Ronnie McLeod (trumpeter and bandleader)
James Fraser McLuskey, Moderator of the General Assembly, 1983.
Andrew J. Milne, Moderator of the General Assembly, 1905.
Dallas Moir, former Scottish Cricketer.
Lawrence Ogilvie, plant pathologist
Steve Robertson of "Scotland the What?"[30]
Jonathan Rowson, Scotland's number 1 (2009) chess Grandmaster and former British chess champion.
James Stirling, Senior Wrangler (1860) and Appeal court judge (1900–1906)
Kevin Stirling (author and historian)
David Wedderburn (teacher), wrote Vocabula in 1636.[31][32][33]
David West, Scottish watercolour painter.


Hubby knows Christian Bale was at his school for about 4 months

From my Dads

Montague Arnold, Chairman from 1971-81 of BPC Publishing, and Chief Executive from 1982-4 of the Property Services Agency
David Barbarossa drummer & percussionist with Adam And The Ants and Bow Wow Wow
Sir Ernest Benn CBE, publisher and writer, uncle of Tony Benn
Selig Brodetsky, Professor and Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics from 1924-48 at the University of Leeds, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Institute of Physics. Past President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews
Jacob Bronowski, mathematician, biologist and historian and Director from 1950-9 of the Coal Research Establishment. Author of The Ascent of Man and writer & presenter of the BBC documentary series of the same name
Stanley Chapple, conductor
Prof Aubrey Diamond, Professor of Law from 1987-99 at University of Notre Dame, and President from 1988-90 of the British Insurance Law Association
John Forrest, pioneer of preventative dentistry, and President of the British Society of Periodontology and British Endodontic Society
Anthony Grabiner, Baron Grabiner, barrister, Deputy High Court Judge, member of the Bank Of England Financial Services Law Committee (2002-05), non-executive chairman of Arcadia Group Ltd
Prof Max Hamilton, first President of the British Association Of Psychopharmacology, inventor of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, and former President of the British Psychological Society
Lee Hurst, comedian & broadcaster
Martin Kemp, actor and bassist with Spandau Ballet
Dr Nyman Levin, Director from 1959-65 of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
James Loring CBE, Director from 1967-80 of the Spastics Society, and President from 1978-84 of the International Cerebral Palsy Society. Author of 'Teaching The Cerebral Palsied Child' (1965)
Prof Ashley Montagu, Professor of Anthropology from 1949-55 at Rutgers University
Paul Moody, Chief Executive since 2005 of Britvic
Sir Gilbert Morgan OBE, former Mason Professor of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham
Trevor Nelson MBE, broadcaster and dj
David Peacock, Professor of Chemistry from 1922-40 at the University of Rangoon (now the University of Yangon, Burma) and chemical adviser from 1942-5 to RAF Bomber Command
Daniel Pedoe, mathematician
Woolf Phillips, orchestra leader
Max Rayne, Baron Rayne, property developer, supporter of medical, educational, religious and arts charities
Prof Norman Rydon, Professor of Chemistry from 1957-77 at the University of Exeter
Leonard Sainer, businessman who helped to set up Sears plc
Ronnie Scott, jazz tenor saxophonistand founder of the world-renowned club Ronnie Scott's
Richard Seifert, architect who designed Centre Point, Tower 42 and King's Reach Tower
Reuben Smeed CBE, transport researcher known for Smeed's law
Prof Alan Stuart, Professor of Statistics from 1966-82 at the LSE
Christos Tolera, actor, artist, model & vocalist with Blue Rondo A La Turk
Brig George Webb, commanded the 1st Royal Tank Regiment from 1942-5
Dennis Wesil CBE DSO, in charge of developing the UK's postal code system


hmmmm

thatone1967

4,193 posts

192 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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time to close the thread me thinks...

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amirh94

11,490 posts

164 months

Sunday 4th September 2011
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Terry Cooke-professional footballer
Stephen Duffy-singer songwriter
David Harewood-television and Hollywood actor
Lee Hendrie-professional footballer
Rashid Rauf-alleged Al-Qaeda operative!!!!
Ian Taylor-professional footballer
Adam Yosef-journalist and activist

WreckedGecko

1,191 posts

202 months

Monday 5th September 2011
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Donkey Punch said:
Jeremy Kyle. Beat that.
Can't beat it but I can equal it. I was there 94-01 (Rich).