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Who is the most famous person to come from your town/city?

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Paul O'Grady and Julian Clarey live down the road from me, Julian lives in Noel Coward's old house. Bob Geldof and family live near my town, Shaun Williamson (Barry from EastEnders) lives near my town too :smile:

Oh, and Sir Roger Moore used to live about 3 doors down from where I live.

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BullViagra

i live in london so pretty much all of them

Rory McIlroy

The main kid from Slumdog millionaire went to one of the high schools in my area... what's his name again?

The Queen

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Original post by hbk4894

for me an Emmerdale actor who played Marlon Dingle's brother in the show.

Carl Dickinson, who plays (or did play) football for Port Vale FC came from where i live.

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Sam280297

Jamie Bell- Played Tintin in the adventures of tintin
and thats about it

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czechmishaout

Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of the Porsche company :awesome:

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bonnet buck

connor maynard(my school argh) and rizzle kicks

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JVD

Nitin Ganatra - Plays Masood in Eastenders. (He helps his brother out at his shop from time to time :P )
The band "The Specials" are also from Coventry :smile:

From my school, Nick Skelton is one of two recent Olympic Gold medal winners :smile:

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Emma:-)

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Jack Bodell- a former British heavyweight champion also came from where i live.

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WGR

Original post by BullViagra

i live in london so pretty much all of them

This. No point in me answering this question really. For my particular corner of London however, the guy who invented the multimeter (that thing every electrician uses to measure current and volts), the guy who designed the gates on the Thames Barrier and the guy who co-wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey.

We have a list of not so great people too including Gary McKinnon, The parents of Baby P and the Ricin Plot guys.

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Ozzy Osborne, Richard Hammond, Cat Deeley (not sure on how to spell her last name), these are some that come to mind

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buchanan700

Diana Dors - actress
Billy Piper went to my school :smile:

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Heimdall

Original post by Drewski

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My friend, I have unfortunately run out of rep for today.

But what I can do is repost your message so more people see it :smile:

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