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#24 ·
Black panther got captured here back in 70's,few hundred meters from down road...
 
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I may as well do Brighton too, as theres f*ck all from where im from (Burgess Hill, 10 Miles North)

Burgess Hill- Vera Lynn (That singer from WW2) in a village down the road and Holly Willaby (TV Presenter) went to school here

Brighton(wiki'd)-
* Harrison Ainsworth, lived in Kemp Town;[citation needed] wrote the novel "Ovingdean Grange" 1860
* Chemmy Alcott, Britain's number one Alpine Skier
* Chesney Allen, comedian, one of Flanagan and Allen, born in Brighton in 1893
* Henry Allingham, the world's second oldest man, moved to St Dunstan's at age 109.
* Emma Anderson, guitarist and songwriter of indie bands Lush and Sing-Sing (band)
* David Anfam, distinguished art historian, author of the Mark Rothko Catalogue Raisonne
* Richard Attenborough, broadcaster and film-maker (Gandhi), brother of David Attenborough
* Michael "Atters" Attree, satirist, comedy writer and performer
* Dean Ayass, television wrestling commentator
* Richard Addinsell, composer of the Warsaw Concerto and many film soundtracks. Lived in Chichester Terrace 1960-77

* David Baboulene, humorous travel writer, scriptwriter and story theory expert
* John Baine, known as Attila the Stockbroker, poet, singer and campaigner
* Zoe Ball broadcaster, daughter of Johnny Ball
* Carol Barnes, former ITV newsreader
* Biddy Baxter, editor of Blue Peter
* Alexandra Bastedo, actress
* Steve Beard, science fiction/fantasy author
* Aubrey Beardsley, fin-de-siecle artist, born in Brighton 1872; for some time lived at Lower Rock Gardens, Kemptown
* William Bemister, documentary filmmaker, born in Brighton
* Pete Bennett, winner of TV Show Big Brother
* Patrick Bergin, actor in films including Sleeping with the Enemy and Patriot Games
* William Black, novelist lived at 1 Paston Place from 1879 until his death in 1898
* Howard Blake,OBE, composer, pianist, conductor, lyric-writer (lyrics and music of 'Walking in the air','The Snowman' etc. (grew up in Brighton - Downs Junior School 1944-49, Brighton Grammar School 1950-57)
* Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
* Arthur Bliss, composer, most famously the score for Things to Come
* Edward Booth, naturalist and taxidermist, lived in Brighton and founded its Booth Museum
* Tim Booth, lead singer of the band James
* Frank Bridge, composer
* Raymond Briggs, artist, writer and illustrator of many children's books including the The Snowman, taught at Brighton Art College
* The members of British Sea Power, an indie rock band (Yan, Noble, Hamilton and Woody)
* Ray Brooks, actor
* Frank Browne, Astrophysicist and humanitarian
* Dora Bryan, comic actress (whose Clarges hotel in Kemptown was used in Carry On films)
* David Bull, TV doctor and Conservative candidate for the next UK general election
* Julie Burchill, journalist; founder of Modern Review
* Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Pre-Raphaelite artist; resident 1880-98
* Sir John Cordy Burrows (1813-76), surgeon and local politician; mayor of Brighton 1857
* Keith Burstein, composer, born (1957) and brought up in Hove
* Charles Busby, Regency architect, prolific in Brighton

* George Canning, (1770-1827), British politician and Prime Minister; resident April to August, 1827)
* Marie-Antoine Carême, chef to the Prince Regent, inventor of chef's toque (hat)
* Edward Carpenter, poet and philosopher
* Deryck Carver, first Protestant martyr; c. 1554
* Michael Cashman, MEP and former EastEnders actor
* Nick Cave, Australian musician, writer, and film maker
* Ian Chapman, footballer
* Shaun Charman, formerly drummer of band The Wedding Present
* Peter Chrisp, children's writer
* Sir Winston Churchill, journalist and politician; attended a school run by the "Misses Thompson" in Hove
* Dave Clarke, world famous techno disc-jockey
* Julian Clary, comedian, formerly the Joan Collins fan club
* Bryan Clough, author of State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair
* Brian Cobby, former voice of the British Telecom speaking clock
* Steve Coogan, comedian well-known as Alan Partridge
* Norman Cook musician formerly of band The Housemartins, and subsequently known as DJ Fatboy Slim (Portslade)
* Gaz Coombes, lead singer of band Supergrass, once lived in the town
* Simon Cowell, Sony BMG executive, born in Brighton
* Luke Cresswell (of musical performers Stomp)
* Aleister Crowley, author, died in a nursing home in Hastings, along the coast from Brighton, in December 1947; ashes scattered at Devil's ****
* James Crump (1812-92), founder of St. Aubyn's School (named after the Hove street in which he lived)

* Alfred Darling, pioneer film equipment manufacturer
* Roger Dean, artist, famous for prog-rock album coversr
* Lord Alfred Douglas (poet and writer) friend & lover of Oscar Wilde
* Graham Duff television writer and actor famous for BBC Three TV series ideal
* Roger Daltrey (The Who). Lives In A Road Near King Alfered (Hove)

* Nick Van Eede, lead singer, Cutting Crew
* G.H.Elliot, music hall singer and comedian, buried in Rottingdean church yard
* Bella Emberg, actress; co-star of The Russ Abbot Show
* Revd. Richard Enraght, religious controversialist, curate of St. Paul's Church, Brighton 1867-71, and priest in Charge of St. Andrew Church, Portslade 1871-74
* Chris Eubank, ex-boxer, who holds the title of "Lord of the Manor of Brighton"
* George Everest, surveyor after whom the mountain was named, buried in Hove
* Maurice Evans, actor who was America's leading Shakespearan actor and regularly appeared in Bewitched and Batman and was Dr Zaius in Planet of the Apes.

* Michael Fabricant MP, born in Brighton in 1950; educated at the Brighton and Hove Grammar School
* Simon Fanshawe, broadcaster, writer, and comedian
* Tommy Farr, boxer, "The Tonypandy Terror", ran a pub in Brighton after retirement
* Maria Fitzherbert, illegitimate wife of George IV (the marriage of a Catholic to a member of the British Royal Family was illegal)
* William Friese-Greene, cinematographic pioneer, subject of the film The Magic Box

* David Garnett, novelist
* George, Prince of Wales, Prince Regent, and later King George IV of the United Kingdom
* Grant Gee, filmmaker and music video director
* Eric Gill, typographer, engraver, sculptor, born in Brighton 1882
* Dave Gibbons, comic book illustrator, famed for co-creating the Watchmen (comic book)
* Harvey Goldsmith, rock promoter
* Nat Gonella, singer and trumpeter, Lived in Saltdean
* Stephen Grant, comedian and writer, lives in Brighton and performs in the town's Komedia venue
* Graham Greene, writer (worked in but did not live in Brighton)
* Lucy Griffiths, actress (attended Varndean College)
* Martha Gunn, famous dipper and friend of the Prince Regent
* Sally Gunnell, athlete, olympic 400m hurdles champion in 1992

* Eamon Hamilton, of the band Brakes and formerly of British Sea Power
* Harry Harrison, science-fiction writer
* Phil Hartnoll, of band Orbital
* Rachel Hayward, former British Steel Pan Champion Soloist
* Tony Hawks, comedian, author and philanthropist
* Den Hegarty, of bands Darts and Rocky Sharpe and the Razors/Replays.
* James Herbert, horror author of The Rats and The Fog
* Rowland Hill, postal reformer
* Steve Hillier of band Dubstar (Hove)
* Georg Hólm, bassist of Sigur Rós
* Suzi Horn, of Prinzhorn Dance School
* Nicholas van Hoogstraten, multimillionaire and property tycoon
* Barbara Hulanicki, fashion designer and founder of Biba
* Jessica Hynes (née Stephenson), actress and writer, grew up in Brighton

* Edward James, poet and art collector, who lent many famous Surrealist works to Brighton Museum in the 1950s and 1960s
* Samantha Janus, actress Eastenders
* Jean-Jacques Jordane, Parisian singer and restaurateur at The Laughing Onion, Kemptown

* Natasha Kaplinsky, journalist and newsreader
* Nigel Kennedy, violinist
* Alex King, rugby player
* Philip King, playwright; wrote the farce See How They Run.
* Rudyard Kipling, author; lived in Rottingdean between 1897 and 1903
* Prince Peter Alexeevich Kropotkin, anarchist; resident 1912-17

* David Land, theatre producer
* George Larner, race-walker; double gold medallist at 1908 Olympics
* Vivien Leigh, actress, Scarlet O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
* Reg Leopold, BBC violinist, lived in Saltdean
* Fred Lillywhite, cricketer; organised first England overseas tour
* Ken Livingstone, politician; formerly Mayor of London
* Hugh Lloyd, actor and comedian, lived in Rottingdean
* Jane Longhurst, killed by Graham Coutts; the Jane Longhurst Trust was set up to campaign for the criminalisation of what the Government labelled "extreme pornography", a move opposed by Backlash and the Consenting Adult Action Network[1]
* Ida Lupino, actress and film-maker, c.1914 - c.1949, daughter of Stanley Lupino
* Des Lynam, broadcaster

* Sake Dean Mahomet, introduced the Turkish bath to Britain
* Gideon Mantell, doctor, palaeontologist, discoveror of dinosaurs (Iguanodon), lived and worked in Brighton in the 1830s
* Edward Marshall-Hall, criminal barrister famous for Edwardian theatrics in court
* Susan Maughan, singer of hit record Bobbys Girl, lived in Rottingdean
* Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence
* Pete McCarthy actor and writer
* Paul McCartney, musician, and his ex-wife Heather Mills, designer (Hove)
* Joe McGann, actor; star of The Upper Hand
* Neil Megson, performance artist, also known as Genesis P-Orridge
* Sara Mendes da Costa, the British Telecom speaking clock
* Prince Klemens von Metternich, (May 15, 1773 - June 11, 1859), Austrian Foreign Minister, Diplomat and creator of the Congress of Vienna
* Max Miller, comedian, "the Cheeky Chappie", born in Brighton in 1894, lived there most of his life
* Juan, Count of Montizón, the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain and Legitimist claimant to the throne of France - lived in Hove c.1870s - 1887, where he died; funeral mass held in Hove's Sacred Heart Church
* Gary Moore musician, guitarist with Thin Lizzy amongst others as well as solo

* Napoleon III, Emperor of the French; deposed by the Third Republic in 1870 and lived in Brighton in 1872
* Dame Anna Neagle, actress; lived at Lewes Crescent, Kemptown
* Loz Netto, guitarist and songwriter, formerly of Sniff 'n' the Tears
* Annie Nightingale, BBC TV and Radio presenter and sometime Brighton night-club owner
* Jeff Noon, speculative fiction writer

* Lord Olivier (Sir Laurence Olivier) & Joan Plowright; lived at Royal Crescent, Kemptown 1960-78
* Steve Ovett, Olympic runner, 800 metres gold medalist in 1980, born and brought up in Brighton
* Denise Van Outen, T.V. Presenter, currently renovating a house[citation needed]

* George Painter, biographer, died at Hove on 8 Dec 2005
* Chris Paling, novelist
* Phillip Reeve, a novelist who grew up in Brighton, but doesn't live there any more.
* Patsy Palmer, current EastEnders actress
* Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician, died in Brighton
* Marguerite Patten, cookery writer
* David Pearce, philosopher
* Karen Pickering, swimmer, former 200 metres freestyle champion
* David Pilbeam, anthropologist
* Alan Pipes, author and illustrator
* Tim Pope, film director and video maker
* Margaret Pracy, Town crier appointed by the Lord of the Manor (Chris Eubank) and not to be confused with the City Council appointee of the same title
* Samuel Preston, lead singer of the band The Ordinary Boys, formally married to Celebrity Big Brother winner, Chantelle Houghton
* Katie Price, model (also known as Jordan), married to Peter Andre
* Tobin Prinz, of Prinzhorn Dance School
* Partho Sen-Gupta, film director and scriptwriter (resident since October 2006)
* Luke Pritchard, lead singer of The Kooks

* Roger Quilter, composer, born in Hove in 1877

* Robert Rankin, author
* Terence Rattigan, playwright, author of The Browning Version and The Winslow Boy
* Rita Ray, once singer with the Darts, latterly radio presenter and DJ
* Amanda Redman, actress
* Dakota Blue Richards, actress
* Paul Roberts, frontman/singer with pop band the stranglers - session singer and actor
* Frederick William Robertson, Anglican divine
* Dame Flora Robson, actress, 1960 until her death in 1984, famous as Elizabeth I
* Anita Rodd*ck, founder of The Body Shop
* Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and political writer, lived in exile in Brighton from 1850 to his death in 1880
* Gilbert Ryle, philosopher
* Martin Ryle, winner of 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics

* Victoria Sackville-West, had two houses in Sussex Square, Kemp Town conjoined by Sir Edwin Lutyens, who also built her another at nearby Roedean
* Sir Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, British Indian philanthropist and merchant, 1st Baronet
* Sir Edward Albert Sassoon, businessman and politician, MP for Hythe, whose mausoleum became the Hanbury Arms, 2nd Baronet
* Tom Sayers, boxer
* Paul Scofield, actor, lived in Brighton as a child and went to school there
* Captain Sensible, punk musician with The Damned
* Jake Shillingford, musician and front-man of My Life Story
* George Albert Smith, pioneering early cinematographer lived and built a studio in Hove
* Jimmy Somerville, musician formerly of band The Communards
* Herbert Spencer, philosopher and political theorist
* Victor Spinetti, actor, film, stage TV, lived in Kemp Town
* Dusty Springfield, singer, had home in Wilbury Road, Hove
* Victor Stiebel, fashion designer, lived in Chichester Terrace
* Robert Smith front-man for The Cure, is a long time resident.

* Maui Taylor, Filipino actress, big in the Philippines
* Nicholas Tettersell, ferried Charles II to exile in France
* Arthur Treacher, actor
* Jack Tripp, English pantomime dame, died 2005
* Lynne Truss, writer
* Keith Tyson, artist and Turner Prize winner in 2002, studied Critical Fine Art Practice at Brighton University's Grand Parade campus

* David Van Day, singer
* Ralph Vaughan-Williams, composer, went to school in Rottingdean
* Magnus Volk, electrical engineer and inventor

* Johnny Wakelin, musician
* Wildman Whitehouse, surgeon and destroyer of the first transatlantic telegraph cable
* Rachel Whiteread, artist and Turner Prize winner in 1993
* Herbert Wilcox, film producer
* Amon Wilds and his son Amon Henry Wilds, both Regency architects, prolific in Brighton
* Mark Williams, member of The Fast Show team and actor in the Harry Potter films
* James Williamson (film pioneer), cinema pioneer had a chemist's shop in Church Road, Hove before building a studio in Cambridge Grove
* Holly Willoughby, television presenter
* John Wisden, cricketer, founded Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'

* W.I.Z., music video director

* Rebecca Yates, artist

* Paul Zenon, magician
 
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#34 ·
Most famous I know of from Chester is Daniel Craig (James Bond) who actually grew up next door to my mums uncle and Michael Owen.

Here's the wikipedia link for the rest List of Cestrians
Lots of footballers!
 
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#35 ·
The bloke who plays Eric Pollard in Emmerdale lives in my village and Chris walker used to live a few villages down from me.
 
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#36 ·
Will Adams - Nautical adventurer & advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
David Harvey - Eminent human geographer.
Jack Hues - Musician.
Brian Moore - Sport commentator and journalist.
Gary Rhodes - Chef and restaurateur.
Rik Waller - Singer, rose to fame through reality TV show "Pop Idol."
David Frost - Television presenter.
Peter Rogers - producer of the Carry On films
 
#37 · (Edited by Moderator)
Well the village i live in the only thing is John Rolfe (who married Pocahontas) and his family lived here.

And even when i wikiwhore i can't make lynn the nearest town sound exciting.

*Captain George Vancouver RN (June 22, 1757 - May 12, 1798) an officer in the Royal Navy who was the first to explore the Pacific coast of the modern day Canadian province of British Columbia and the American states of Alaska, Washington and Oregon and also the southwest coast of Australia.

*An the first place Princess Di went to school.
 
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tlewis52 said:
Will Adams - Nautical adventurer & advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
David Harvey - Eminent human geographer.
Jack Hues - Musician.
Brian Moore - Sport commentator and journalist.
Gary Rhodes - Chef and restaurateur.
Rik Waller - Singer, rose to fame through reality TV show "Pop Idol." just lol. if i lived were you do i would of left him out.
David Frost - Television presenter. - LEGAND ON THROUGHT HE KEY HOLE!
Peter Rogers - producer of the Carry On films
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#40 · (Edited by Moderator)
* Michael Andrews (artist) (1928-1995)
* Elizabeth Bentley 1767-1839, author of "Tales for Children in Verse", lived at 45 St Stephen's Square.
* Billy Bluelight (1859/1863?-1949). Pseudonym of William Cullum. Legendary folk-hero, well known for his races against steam pleasure boats.
* George Borrow (1803-1881), writer and traveller. In his youth Borrow was resident at Willow Lane. He attended the Norwich King Edward school. Borrow recollects his youth in the city and conversations with the philologist and translator of German Romantic literature, William Taylor [disambiguation needed] in his semi-autobiographical novel Lavengro.
* Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). medical doctor, polymath scholar, encyclopedist and philosopher with interests in Biblical scholarship and the esoteric. The stylistic purity and stupendous learning displayed in Browne's varied prose in the spheres of religion, science and art are minor classics of World literature.
* Edith Cavell (1865-1915) was born in Swardeston, 4 miles south of Norwich. She was a World War I nurse who was executed by firing squad by the Germans for helping allied prisoners escape in violation of military law. She is buried on Life's Green, on the east side of Norwich Cathedral.
* William Calthorpe who purchased in, 1447, as a town house, Erpingham manor in St.Martin's at the Palace, Norwich.
* John Crome and Joseph Stannard, along with John Sell Cotman, established the first art movement outside of London. The Norwich school of painters were influenced by the achievements of Dutch landscape painting and the beauty of the rural hinterland surrounding Norwich.
* William Crotch (1775-1847). Composer, artist and teacher. Norwich's Mozart. He gave daily public organ recitals aged two and a half. Crotch played God Save the King before the King aged three. He had performed at every major town in England and Scotland by the age of seven. Crotch became Organist of Christ Church, Oxford and for fifty years he was Oxford's Professor of Music. Unlike Mozart, however, his precocious musical talents failed to mature to genius.
* Sir Thomas Erpingham (1357-1428), officer in the Battle of Agincourt and Knight of the Garter
* Pablo Fanque (1796-1871). The first Black Circus Proprietor in Britain was born in the city.
* Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845). The prison reformer and leading Quaker was born in Gurney Court in Magdalen Street and was one of several philanthropists associated with the city. Her portrait is upon the Series E (2005) Bank of England £5 note.
* Charles Suckling Gilman (1807-1888). Businessman, philanthropist. Founder, General Hailstorm Insurance Society, Norwich Mutual Marine Assurance Society, founder (with Joseph John Gurney) Norwich District Visiting Society.[28]
* Sir Charles Rackham Gilman (1833 - ). Businessman, politician, philanthropist. Son of Charles Suckling Gilman. Mayor of Norwich, 1882, founder of the Norwich and London Accident Insurance Association, chairman of the conservators of Mousehold Heath. (Norwich's Gilman Road named for this family.)[29]
* Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847) was a banker and philanthropist who worked with his sister Elizabeth Fry (see above) in prison reform. He was also active in the movement to abolish the slave trade and a member of the temperance movement.
* Robert William Bilton Hornby (1821-1884) was a noted local antiquarian, priest and lord of the manor from the City of York. He was ordained a deacon at Norwich in 1844.
* Julian of Norwich. Medieval Christian mystic and contemporary of Chaucer. Julian is the author of The revelations of Divine Love the first book written by a woman in the English language. Julian's writings are well-represented by the scholarly website www.umilta.net.
* Robert Kett. Norwich's very own Robin Hood or Wat Tyler. Kett was a Norfolk landowner from Wymondham who lead the peasant's revolt in 1549 in the name of the common man against the corrupt Norfolk landowners. This eventually lead to the Battle of Dussindale against the King's forces on the 27 August 1549 in which 3000 of Kett's men were killed. He was hanged for Treason at Norwich Castle on the 7 December 1549.
* James Martineau (1805-1900) Philosopher and brother to Harriet.
* Harriet Martineau (1802-1876). The daughter of a Norwich manufacturer of Huguenot descent, she suffered from ill-health and deafness throughout her life. A devout Unitarian, her writings include Illustrations of political economy (1832-1834). Harriet Martineau supported the abolitionist campaign in the United States writing Society in America (1837). She translated writings by Auguste Comte. Her first novel was entitled Deerbrook (1839). A radical in religion she published the anti-theological Laws of Man's Social Nature (1851) and Biographical sketches (1869).
* Bernard Meadows,(1915-2005) Modernist Sculptor
* R. H. Mottram (1883-1971)- novelist and Lord Mayor of Norwich
* Admiral Horatio Nelson attended the Norwich School from 1767 to 1768. He was born in nearby Burnham Thorpe.
* Amelia Opie (1769-1853), Norwich author and Quaker. In 1825 she drastically changed her life as a socialite, party-goer, and attendant at literary soirees, to become a Quaker.
* Matthew Parker (1504-1575), Archbishop of Canterbury
* William H. Scott (1863-1938), Electrical Engineer and founder of the Norwich based firm Lawrence Scott & Electromotors ltd.
* Sir James Edward Smith botanist, natural historian and one-time owner of the Linnean collection of Carolus Linnaeus
* William Smith (1756 - 1835), Whig politician, dissenter and abolitionist, M.P. for Norwich from 1807.

Contemporary names associated with Norwich include:

* Bill Bryson, American writer and humorist, lives near Wymondham, near Norwich.
* Martin Burgess, builder of the famous Gurney Clock in the Castle Mall
* Charles Clarke, Labour MP and former Home Secretary, lives in Norwich.
* Cathy Dennis, Singer/Songwriter who was born in Norwich in 1969.
* Ralph Firman, former Formula 1 Driver was born in Norwich in 1975. He and his family live in nearby Attleborough, and he was educated at Gresham's School. Currently racing in the A1 Grand Prix series for Ireland, for which he qualifies through his Mother's Irish nationality.
* Stephen Fry, comedian, author, actor and filmmaker, studied at Norwich City College, and is a Norwich City F.C. fan.
* Trisha Goddard, talk show host lived in Norwich.
* Andy Green OBE, a Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force, is the current holder of the world land speed record, having piloted the ThrustSSC to the first ever supersonic speed on land in the Black Rock Desert, USA on 25 September 1997.
* Alan Heath - holocaust historian has his UK residence in Norwich.
* Greg James, BBC Radio 1 presenter, studied at UEA.
* Becky Mantin, ITV Weather presenter and This Morning reporter.
* Bernard Matthews, founder of the eponymous meat company.
* Sir John Mills, born in North Elmham in Norfolk. Mills was educated at the Norwich High School for Boys. He also had Football (Soccer) trials with Norwich City F.C. in the 1920s before moving into acting.
* Beth Orton, Award-winning singer/songwriter, was born in Dereham and spent much of her childhood in Norwich.
* Steve Osborne, musician and record producer - grew up in Norwich, left in 1986 to join Trident Studios - now lives near Bath and has produced both KT Tunstall albums amongst many others.
* Philip Pullman, British writer was born in Norwich on 19 October 1946. Best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels and a number of other books.
* Colin Self, pop artist
* Delia Smith, Celebrity chef and joint majority owner of Norwich City F.C.
* Chris Sutton, Football player (striker); joint top scorer for the Premier League in 1997/8; formerly the record English transfer (at £5 million from Norwich to Blackburn in 1994); was brought up in Norwich attending Hellesdon High School where his father, Mike Sutton (footballer), was also a teacher.
* Stella Vine lived in Norwich during her childhood, from the age of 7,[30] during which time she performed at the Norwich Theatre Royal. Vine moved back to live in Norwich again later in her life with her son. Vine painted a large painting Welcome to Norwich a fine city (2006) which depicts Vine with her son and family cat in Norwich, against a clear blue sky.[31] Her first job was at age 14 in a local Norwich cake shop.[32]
* Tim Westwood, BBC Radio 1 Rap DJ and presenter of popular MTV show "Pimp My Ride (UK)". Grew up in and around Norwich (his father was the bishop of Peterborough, in the neighbouring county of Cambridgeshire) and went to Norwich School.

Oooh f*ck, I forgot that twat Tim Westwood came from around here.

The Sutton boys went to my Middle School and I had their dad teach us PE at High School
 
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