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BroFe on 30 December 2008

I guess the most famous person in my town; Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona) is this guy:

Pau Gasol (NBA Player)



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amp316 on 30 December 2008

I'm from Chicago and there are a bunch of famous people from here. How about Barack Obama? He's pretty famous.



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mjk45 on 06 January 2009

errol flynn would be the most famous person iknow from hobart tasmania.



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NinjaguyDan on 06 January 2009

Sydney Pollack
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Chad Everett
Michael Warren
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PS360ForTheWin on 06 January 2009

Bill Bailey (comedian)



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SmokedHostage on 07 January 2009

Him.



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O-D-C on 07 January 2009

Alexandria, Ontario

where nothing happens and nobody is famous



Broncos724 on 07 January 2009

I live in West Chester, Ohio. Congressman John Boehner is the only famous person from here mentioned on Wikipedia. I also know that Ken Griffey Jr. grew up here (although was born elsewhere) and actually lived in the neighborhood adjacent to mine.



SuperSteveyLes on 07 January 2009
  • Chris Boardman (cyclist)
  • The Boo Radleys pop group
  • Ian Botham (cricketer)
  • Adrian Boult (conductor)
  • Pete Burns (singer/songwriter)
  • Daniel Craig (actor) (Spent his teenage years on the Wirral)
  • Lewis Collins (actor)
  • The Coral pop group
  • Elvis Costello (Singer/songwriter lived in Birkenhead)
  • Peter Davenport (footballer)
  • Matt Dawson (rugby player and TV personality)
  • Dixie Dean (footballer)
  • Lottie Dod (Wimbledon tennis champion, "most versatile female athlete of all time")
  • Michael Farnworth(British Columbia politician born in Bromborough)
  • John Gorman Singer with The Scaffold and presenter on TISWAS.
  • Wilfred Grenfell ("Grenfell of Labrador")
  • Half Man Half Biscuit pop group
  • Alexis Blue pop group
  • Emma Hamilton (mistress of Horatio Nelson)
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne (American writer; lived in Rock Ferry as US Consul)
  • Austin Healey (rugby player)
  • Paul Heaton (singer and song writer for the Beautiful South)
  • Adrian Henri (poet and artist)
  • Stephen Hough (pianist)
  • Geoffrey Hughes (actor)
  • Shirley Hughes (children's author and illustrator)
  • Paul Humphreys (musician)
  • Rita Hunter (Wagnerian soprano)
  • Andrew Irvine (Everest climber)
  • Glenda Jackson (actress and politician)
  • Megs Jenkins (actress)
  • Miles Kane (of The Last Shadow Puppets)
  • Roger Lancelyn Green, the children's writer, lived at Poulton Hall in Poulton Lancelyn, Bebington.
  • Phil Liggett (cycling commentator)
  • Jason McAteer (footballer)
  • Andy McCluskey (musician)
  • Mike McGear (photographer, musician (The Scaffold) and brother of Paul McCartney)
  • Tim Mercer, American child genius and owner of a guitar which used to belong to the lead guitarist from The Coral
  • Oceanic (band)
  • Wilfred Owen, one of the greatest poets of the First World War, grew up in Tranmere.
  • Paul O'Grady (comedian and TV personality)
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark pop group
  • John Peel (disc jockey and radio presenter)
  • Dominic Purcell (actor)
  • The Rascals indie band
  • Jan Ravens (actress and impressionist)
  • Patricia Routledge (actress)
  • Ted Robbins (comedian)
  • Alan Rouse (famous climber)
  • Cyril Scott (composer)
  • FE Smith (Lord Chancellor)
  • Olaf Stapledon, a writer, spent much of his life in West Kirby and Caldy, and many landscapes mentioned in his works can be identified.
  • Ralph Steadman (artist)
  • Philip Wilson Steer (impressionist painter)
  • Ray Stubbs (sports commentator)
  • Philip Toosey (hero of the Bridge on the River Kwai)
  • Harold Wilson (Prime Minister - Head Boy of Wirral Grammar School)
  • Marty Willson-Piper (guitarist for The Church)

    • These people hail from the Wirral



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