List of famous residents of Sunderland

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This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, Sunderland in England.

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[edit] Famous people from Sunderland

Kate Adie Formerly Chief News Reporter for the BBC
The Rt. Hon. Hilary Armstrong MP Cabinet Minister / Government Chief Whip 2001 -
Chris Beattie Actor
The Venerable Bede (674–735)
Gertrude Bell (1868 - 1926) Colonial administrator
St Benedict Biscop (628?–690),
George Black (1857-1910) Film pioneer
PC Keith Blakelock (1945-1985) Police officer
James Bolam (1938–) Actor.
Raich Carter (1914-1994) Footballer and Football Manager
Dr William Reid Clanny (1770–1850) Inventor and Physician
Paul Collingwood England cricketer.
Sir Tom Cowie Entrepreneuer and philanthropist
Jack Crawford (1775 - 1831) Naval hero.
Terry Deary (1946–) Horrible Histories author
Mike Elliott - Comedian, Actor, Radio Presenter
Russell Enoch Actor
The Kane Gang (1980s) Musicians
Bryan Ferry (1945–) Musician
Muriel Foster Great Elgar contralto
The Futureheads - indie-rock band
Jane Grigson - Celebrated cookery writer
Sir William Halcrow, civil engineer
Billy Hardy (1964–) Boxer Commonwealth featherweight champion.
Thomas Elliott Harrison Railway engineer
Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795 - 1857)
James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight) (1916–1995) Veterinary surgeon and author
Melanie Hill (1962–) Actress
Sir George Burton Hunter Shipbuilder and innovator
Ernie Johnson Jockey won 1969 Epsom Derby
Kenickie, a 1990s pop band
Lauren Laverne, a radio DJ on Xfm
John Lilburne 'Free-born John'. English civil war figure
Ernie Lotinga Film & West End actor (married to Hetty King)
Gibb McLaughlin (1884.– 1960) Actor, born George Gibb McLaughlin
Civil engineer brothers Patrick Meik and Charles Meik
Sir William Mills Inventor of the Mills Bomb
Christine Norden (1924–1988) Actress, born Mary Lydia Thornton
Bob Paisley Football manager
Adam Brown Promising Young Wine taster
David Parfitt Oscar winning film producer, Shakespeare in Love
Robert of Geneva Parish Priest
Denise Robertson Novelist and TV agony aunt
Maurice Roëves (1937–). Actor
Clarkson Stanfield Painter
Dave Stewart (1952–) Musician (Eurythmics etc)
Mary Stewart Best-selling author
Joseph Swan Developer of the electric lightbulb
Tom Taylor Playwright and editor of Punch
Bobby Thompson Comedian - the 'Little Waster'
The Toy Dolls Punk Rock Band
Graham Wallas Author and academic
Wearside Jack - Yorkshire ripper hoaxer (John Humble a man arrested in 2005 was identified by DNA to be Wearside Jack)^[1]
Bob Willis (1949–) Cricketer

[edit] Famous Sunderland residents

Charles Buchan - Footballer
Sir William Herschel - Composer and astronomer. Discoverer of Uranus.
Lola Montez - Adventuress
Charlie Hurley - Footballer
Chris Mullin - Civil liberty campaigner and MP.
William Paley - Rector of Bishopwearmouth. Famously wrote on intelligent design as opposed to evolution.
Frank Pick - Industrial designer
Len Shackleton - Footballer
Bryan Talbot - Influential comic artist and creator of "Luther Arkwright"
Vivian Stanshall - and his wife Ki Longfellow, found the Baltic Trader "Thekla" in Sunderland's docks. Converted her, and sailed her to Bristol where she became The Old Profanity Showboat
LS Lowry - Famous artist
Lewis Carroll - Writer, Alice in Wonderland