[Sam!]

What Wiki says:

Frank Bellamy - Illustrator of comics
Joe Blackburn - Eating disorder sufferer
William Carey - Missionary
Richard Coles - Member of 80s band The Communards
Sir Alfred East - Painter
John Alfred Gotch - Architect and Architectural historian
Thomas Cooper Gotch - Illustrator
Sienna Guillory - Actress
William Knibb - Missionary
John Profumo - Former British politician, best known for the Profumo Scandal
Edward Sismore - Air Commodore
Faryl Smith - Classical singer and reality star
Ashley West - Artist
Charles Wicksteed - Created Wicksteed Amusement Park, the oldest in UK
Andrew Kooner - Canadian boxer, born in Kettering
Jack Lucien - Andorran pop singer, born in Kettering

[what an utter shitt list lol]

[BigSister]

Hayley, Janice from Corry come from Accrington. Little Simon(Peters son) comes from Blackburn and Claire comes from a town near where i live
Mystic Meg comes from Accrington
Jon Anderson, singer with rock band Yes
David "Bumble" Lloyd, a former cricketer, now a pundit for Sky Sports.
Graeme Fowler, Foxy Fowler, (cricketer), former England batsman, cricket coach and occasional pundit on BBC Radio's Test Match Special
Jeanette Winterson, an author whose Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is an account of her childhood in the town.
Harrison Birtwistle (composer).
John Virtue, artist
Ron Hill, long-distance and marathon runner, born 25th of September, 1938, won Commonwealth Marathon Gold in 1970.
John Rex Whinfield, chemist, inventor of Terylene (polyester), the first completely synthetic fibre invented in UK.
Julie Hesmondhalgh, an actress who plays Hayley Cropper in the TV Soap Coronation Street.
Yvette Livesey, ex beauty-queen and former squeeze of the late Tony Wilson
The footballer Mike Duxbury was born in the town, and is best remembered for being part of the Manchester United side of the 1980s which won two FA Cups and regularly finished among the top sides in the league placings.
Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.
Famous ex-residents include darts player Ronnie Baxter, and former Lancashire all rounder Bob Ratcliffe
Mystic Meg was born in the town as Margaret Anne Lake on 27 July 1942.
Tony Mills (born 1950), ex-body building champion and renowned bare fisted boxer. He died in 2007.
Netherwood Hughes, 108 year old World War I veteran
Diana Vickers, X Factor finalist of 2008.

And blackburn people are
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackburn

[pinkmichk]

lewis hamilton (f1 driver) and victoria pendleton (team gb indoor track cyclist)

[Shaun]

Agatha Christie, Lily Cole (some supermodel), Helen Chamberlain (presenter of Soccer AM), Fawlty Towers is based here...err...that's about it.

[Zac]

Originally posted by DamonJ
* Sir Edward Appleton – discoverer of the ionosphere and Nobel Prize winner
* The Brontë sisters, Anne, Emily*, and Charlotte* – born in Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, but later lived in Haworth.
* Frederick Delius – Composer
* W.E. Forster MP for Bradford – commemorated by statue, and is the namesake of Forster Square
* Gareth Gates – singer
* David Hockney – artist
* Samuel Lister – industrialist and inventor, commemorated by a statue
* Aasif Mandvi – popular comedian on The Daily Show
* Richard Oastler – social reformer; statue in Northgate
* Albert Pierrepoint – Britain's last hangman
* J. B. Priestley – writer, commemorated by a statue
* Michael Rennie – actor
* Kimberley Walsh – member of Girls Aloud
* Richard Whiteley – television presenter
* Junior Witter – boxer, former WBC World Light Welterweight champion
* Joel York, member of alternative rock band, Gramsci Melodic
* Allan Holdsworth – musician, composer, guitar virtuoso
* James Sammon aka Pianoman – musician, composer

OMG Damon, do you live in/near Bradford?

[Tom4784]

Here's the lists for dudley and Birmingham (I live in a town in between them).

Dudley
Sam Allardyce (1954 - ) - footballer and football manager
John Badley (1783–1870) - surgeon of Dudley, FRCS (original 300 Fellows) Medical pioneer
John Haden Badley (1865–1967) - educator, founder (1893) and Headmaster (1893-1935) Bedales School
Ben Black (1889–1950) - composer
Jason Bonham (1966 - ) - son of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham
David Burrows (1968 - ) - retired professional footballer who played for clubs including Liverpool, Everton and Coventry City
Billy Dainty (1927-1986) - comedian
Duncan Edwards (1936-1958) - footballer who died in the Munich Air Disaster
Reanne Evans (1985 - ) Three-time Ladies' World Snooker Champion
Kaleigh Grainger (1986 - ) – unicyclist
Tony Harlow (1962 - ) - 'Laughing Cavalier' prisoner
Lenny Henry (1958 - ) - comedian
Noddy Holder (1948 - ) - musician
Nigel Mazlyn Jones - musician
Sue Lawley (1946 - ) - newsreader
Josie Lawrence (1959 - ) - comedienne
Jas Mann (1971 - ) - musician
Ian Messiter (1920-1999) - comedy writer
Norman Pace (1953 - ) – comedian
Dorothy Round (1908-1982) - tennis player who won the ladies' singles at Wimbledon in 1934 and 1937.
Joe Smith (1889-1971) - former footballer and manager (was manager of Blackpool at the time of their famous 1953 FA Cup final victory over Bolton, dubbed the "Matthews Final")
James Whale (1889-1957) - film director
William Perry (boxer) (1819 - 1880). Also known as the Tipton Slasher. Prizefighter. Buried in St John's Churchyard, Kate's Hill.
The Fight (pop/punk band) (2000 - ) Formed in Dudley, consisting of Kate and Jack Turley, Scott Milner and Tom Calder.

Birmingham
Gabriel Agbonlahor --- (Footballer)
Albert Austin --- (Silent film star)
Sir Michael Balcon --- (Film Director)
Edward White Benson --- (Archbishop of Canterbury)
Alfred Bird - (Inventor of custard powder)
His son, Sir Alfred Frederick Bird - (Food manufacturer and chemist)
Matthew Boulton --- (Pioneering industrialist and member of the Lunar Society)
William Bragge --- (Civil engineer/Antiquarian)
Justin Broadrick --- (Musician - Godflesh)
Geezer Butler --- bassist of (Black Sabbath)
Pogus Caesar --- (TV Director and Photographer)
John Cadbury --- (Founder of the Cadbury chocolate company)
Ali Campbell and Robin Campbell --- (Musician, UB40)
David Cannadine --- (Historian)
Barbara Cartland --- (Novelist)
Jasper Carrott --- (Comedian)
Austen Chamberlain --- (Politician)
Joseph Chamberlain --- (Politician)
Neville Chamberlain --- (Prime Minister)
Lisa Clayton --- (Solo yachtswoman)
David Cox --- (Artist)
Lauren Crace --- (Actress)
Chris Crudelli --- (Martial artist)
Daniel Davies --- (Actor)
Cat Deeley --- (Television Presenter)
Oscar Deutsch --- (Founder of the Odeon Cinemas chain)
Hunt Emerson --- (Cartoonist)
Frederick Roland Emett --- (Cartoonist, artist and kinetic sculptor)
Niki Evans --- (Singer)
Trevor Eve --- (Actor)
Sid Field --- (Comedian)
Sir Francis Galton --- (Scientist, founder of eugenics)
Roland Gift --- (Actor and musician - Fine Young Cannibals)
Mark "Barney" Greenway ---(Musician - Napalm Death)
Rob Halford --- (Musician - Judas Priest)
Charlie Hall --- (Actor - most famous for his work with Laurel and Hardy)
Alison Hammond --- (Television Presenter)
Richard Hammond --- (Broadcaster - Top Gear)
John Hampson --- (novelist)
Tony Hancock --- (Comedian and actor)
Nic Harcourt --- Influential American radio personality
William Haywood (architect) --- (Architect, Town Planner & Secretary of The Birmingham Civic Society)
George Jacob Holyoake --- (Reformer)
Raymond Huntley --- (Actor)
Tony Iommi --- guitarist of (Black Sabbath)
Jamelia --- (R&B singer)
Seth Johnson --- (Sportsman Derby Footballer)
Ann Jones --- (Tennis player)
Digby Jones --- (Director-General of the CBI)
Edward Burne-Jones -- (Pre-Raphaelite painter)
Albert William Ketčlbey --- (Composer)
Frederick William Lanchester --- (maker of the first petrol-driven car in Britain)
Jeff Lynne --- (Founder of the Electric Light Orchestra)
Nigel Mansell --- (Sportsman- F1 Motorsport Driver)
Eric Maschwitz --- (lyricist)
Nick Mason --- (Musician - Pink Floyd)
Zena McNally --- (Singer - Mis-Teeq)
Christine McVie --- (Musician - Fleetwood Mac)
Shazia Mirza --- (Comedian)
Henry Vollam Morton --- (Journalist and travel writer)
Constance Naden --- (Poet & Philosopher)
Alan Napier --- (Actor)
Ernest Willmott Norton, --- (Cricketer)
Ozzy Osbourne --- singer of (Black Sabbath)
Carl Palmer --- (Musician - Emerson Lake and Palmer)
Alexander Parkes --- (Inventor)
Dave Pegg --- (Musician - Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull)
Enoch Powell --- (Politician, poet and classical scholar)
Michael Pinder --- (Musician - Moody Blues)
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown --- (anthropologist)
Nick Rhodes --- (Musician - Duran Duran)
Pat Roach --- (Actor and wrestler)
John Rogers (c.1500–1555) --- (Bible editor and Martyr)
Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) --- (novelist)
Gary Shaw --- (footballer)
Jayne Sixmith --- (hockey player)
1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston --- (Military Commander)
James Sutton --- (Actor)
Andrew Symonds --- (Cricketer)
John Taylor --- (Musician - Duran Duran)
Roger Taylor --- (Musician - Duran Duran)
Will Thorne --- (Trade union leader and MP)
Charlie Timmins ---(Footballer)
Murray Walker --- (Racing driver and commentator)
Bill Ward --- drummer of (Black Sabbath)
Brooke Foss Westcott --- (Theologian and Bishop of Durham)
Willard Wigan --- (Sculptor)
Toyah Willcox --- (Singer, actress and television presenter)
Steve Winwood --- (Musician)
Dorian Yates --- (Body-builder)
Benjamin Zephaniah --- (Poet)

I'm surprised I forgot about some of these people. I've put the people who I've heard of in Bold, some names ring a bell but I can't think who they are.

[Fom]

From memory, because I can't be bothered researching...

Steve Coogan - used to live down the street from me.
Emma (BB5) - Lived quite close by
Angry old woman that shouted at simon on X factor - Lived quite close by, I saw her on the bus once.
David Beckham - Got most of his tattoo's done on the same road as my old house.

[Tom]

I just found out I live near Denise Welsh, ew.

I hate wikipedia.

[Princess]

Just found these on Wiki

Éamon de Buitléar; wildlife film maker and naturalist.
Reggie Corrigan; former professional rugby player, Irish team member and former most capped Leinster player of all time.
John L. Murray; Chief Justice of Ireland.
George Hamilton; commentator for RTÉ television.
Frank Kelly; the actor who portrayed Father Jack in Father Ted.
Paul McNaughton; Former Irish International Rugby player, Ex Leinster manager

How exciting :P I can see the 2nd ones house outside my window,hah!

[Jake!]

James Sutton played John Paul in HollyOaks Dezzy.

[Tom4784]

Yeah I know Jake, that's why he#s in bold. The people who I've heard of are in Bold.

[Ninastar]

Originally posted by Zak

OMG Damon, do you live in/near Bradford?

I do!! x

[HeatherTWx]

According to wikipedia:
Jean Alexander, actress
Marc Almond, lead singer of Soft Cell
Michael Arlen, author and playwright
Robin Askwith, actor
Scott Baker, musician
Lucy M. Boston, author of Greenknow books and patchwork quilt maker
Dora Bryan, actress
Richard Corbett, MEP
John Culshaw, record producer
Lord Fearn, politician and former MP
Gomez, band
Francesca Halsall, swimmer
Ollie Halsall, guitarist
Frank Hampson, artist, creator of Dan Dare
Sophie Howard, glamour model.
Tony Jordan, writer
David Lonsdale, actor
Lee Mack, comedian
Ginger McCain, racehorse trainer
David Mitchell, author
Rev. Marcus Morris, creator of the Eagle comic
Anthony Quayle, actor
Arthur Richardson, VC
Miranda Richardson, actress
William Rimmer, composer and conductor of brass band music
Jack Rodwell, footballer for Everton
Adrian Scott Stokes, painter
A. J. P. Taylor, historian
Marcus Wareing, chef
Edmund Whittaker, mathematician

i only know david lonsdale the one who was in heartbeat. My brother saw him in sainsburys one day.

[Gemmer-x]

Matthew Horne, Joe Dempsie (skins), Dale Winton(LOL!),Jermaine Pennant, Paul Smith (fashion designer) and Torvill + Dean all grew up here. I'm pretty sure they've all moved away now (lucky sods!) but i know Lea from BB7 lives in Notts.

[xDramatick]

Originally posted by lil_star11
Marc Almond, lead singer of Soft Cell

i love him.

Mine according to wiki;;
Reginald Maudling local MP 1950 - 1979
Cyril Bibby, who in 1958-59 was the prospective Labour Party candidate opposing Reginald Maudling
Robert Carr (Baron Carr of Hadley), Conservative politician
Sir Sydney Chapman local MP 1979 - 2005
Peter Banks, 1st guitarist for the band Yes
Stephen Douglas journalist, ITV
Richard Baker, Broadcaster
Samuel Pepys
Harold Hopkins
David Livingstone
Spike Milligan
John Strugnell Dead Sea Scrolls editor-in-chief and Harvard Professor
Humphrey Lyttelton, who lived in nearby Arkley
Norman Wisdom, who lived in nearby Arkley
Emma Bunton
David Crawley
Stephanie Beacham
William Cattley a popular orchid species cattleya was named after him due to his successful cultivation of lavender colored Cattleya Labiata
Vincent Tewson
Lee Thompson from Madness
Elaine Paige was raised in Barnet
Kingsley Amis lived in Barnet with his son Martin Amis
Trevor Howard lived in Arkley, frequented The Gate pub
Nadine Coyle (Girls Aloud - singer) owns a property in Barnet.
Sean Barron-Smith volcano enthusiast, raised in Barnet.

[Jake!]

Originally posted by Dezzy
Yeah I know Jake, that's why he#s in bold. The people who I've heard of are in Bold.

Oh, I read it the wrong way round. Sorry.

[Tom4784]

Originally posted by Jake!

Oh, I read it the wrong way round. Sorry.

No problem.