Has anyone famous attended your school?

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David Beckham,
James Alexandrou
Jonathan Ive,
Rebecca Jane,
James Povey,
Sir Peter Harding GCB,
Chrissy Christo
Harry Kane

:biggrin:

Martin Kelly (Liverpool defender) was 2 years above me and I played with/against him a couple of times. He lives in the next street as well, still see him in the local shops every now and then buying a loaf of bread and what not. Quite surreal he's made it so big.

Reply 163

Dorito

Andy Burnham as well.

Reply 164

sohoscribbler

Evelyn Waugh. Sir Peter Pears. Sir Tim Rice. Jan Morris. Tom Sharpe. Sir David Hare. Jamie Theakston. Tom Driberg. Sir Christopher Meyer. Loads of admirals, generals, bishops and ambassadors.

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Reply 165

NS17

Def Leppard went to my school.

Reply 166

spazman21

Yep.... From wikipedia:

Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader, WWII fighter pilot
Arthur Banks, WWII pilot awarded GC
Sir Russell Bencraft, cricketer
John Berger, art critic, novelist, painter, and author
Nicholas Budgen, Conservative MP
Sir Harold Burrough, British Admiral
Sir Geoffrey Callender, naval historian
Peter Carter-Ruck, lawyer
Brian Cleeve, author and broadcaster
Emilia Clarke, actress
John Davies, businessman and cabinet minister
Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, DSO, OBE and CBE, founder of de Havilland Aircraft Company.
George Fenton, Oscar nominated film composer
Anthony FitzClarence, 7th Earl of Munster
James Forrester, England rugby union international
Paul Gibb, England Test cricketer
Guy Gibson VC, Dambusters hero,
Robert Gittings CBE, poet and biographer
Jon Goodridge, rugby player
Kenneth Grahame, author
Sir Tom Hopkinson, journalist
Noel Baring Hudson, DSO, MC Anglican Bishop
Sir David Lewis, Lord Mayor of the City of London
James Lockyer, Canadian lawyer and social activist
Rob Marris MP
Norman Miscampbell, Conservative MP
Georgia Moffett, actress
Simon Nicholls, BBC comedy producer
Lord (Laurence) Olivier, acclaimed award-winning Actor, Director and Producer
Sir Anthony Derek Oulton, QC
Hugh Padgham, record producer
Sir Nicholas Pumfrey, judge
Georgina Rylance, actress
Lord (Michael) Sandberg, former CEO of HSBC Group
Louis Strange, WW1 pilot[1]
Jon Snow, Channel 4 newscaster
Sir Brian Tovey, former Director of GCHQ
Sir Stephen Tumin, judge
William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire
Adrian Warburton, DSO and Bar, DFC and Two Bars, highly decorated World War II British pilot
Sir Francis James Wylie, first Warden of Rhodes House

Probably should add Matty from Skins to that list.... he'd probably be considered more famous than any of the above among the teenage population.

Also, we had the English rugby team "attend" (not in the sense implied in the title) our school a couple weeks ago - they were using our rugby pitches for training!!!

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Reply 167

mintmocha

Original post by Reagan Smash

The ginger one from atomic kitten. I'm gonna go ahead and say that none of you can top that.

I used to love Atomic Kitten as an 11 year old. :ninja:

I don't know if anyone famous went to my school because Wikipedia has nothing on it so I'm going to go ahead and say 'not yet.'

Reply 168

babelicious_1986

Original post by Dorito

Andy Burnham as well.

St Aelred's then?

Reply 169

SuperStarr1

Kieran Richardson.. the ex-Man United footballer lol! His shirt is in the schools office haha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Richardson

Reply 170

ssss

Stevie Winwood's children... how exciting! :K:

Reply 171

Jesobel

Keira Knightley and Camilla Kerslake

Reply 172

Jesobel

ooh and Georgia Jagger

Reply 173

nerimon18

Shola Ama, N-Dubz, Suggs

Reply 174

lilGem

secondary school: Joe Brooks, Charlie Dimmock
college- Ben Ainslie, Alexa Chung, Jack Dee, Lucy Pinder, Will Champion, Hugh Mitchell

there are quite a few more but those are the most well known

Reply 175

Inzamam99

Luke Donald, Matt Dawson and Jimmy Carr to name a few.

Reply 176

fudgesundae

Original post by I smell like maths

Dev Patel from season 1 & 2 of skins, he played Anwar..

Whitmore High School :smile:

you could have just said slumdog millionaire?

Michael Parkinson

jermaine defoe
griminal
tinchy stryder
D Double E
Tribal Man
and a few footbal players for west ham

Reply 179

lilGem

Original post by katiej149

School - no one, as it was a really tiny school!

But quite a few famous people went to my college - Alexa Chung, Jack Dee, Ben Ainslie, Will Champion from Coldplay and some others I can't remember. The guy who played Colin Creevey in Harry Potter was in the year below me too. :smile:

same college :tongue: