List of people from Slough
This is a list of notable people who are current or former residents or associates of the town of Slough in the English county of Berkshire.
- Billy Clifford (footballer) (Footballer) (1992-)
- Cecil Aldin(1870-1935), (painter of animals and rural life)
- Gerry Anderson (1929-2012), (television drama maker and creator of supermarionation)
- Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), (schoolboy at St Michael's School, Aldin House and later Prime Minister)[1]
- James Thomas Bedborough (property developer who developed properties at Upton Park; great great great-grandfather of Davina McCall)[2]
- Steve Bell (1951-), (political cartoonist)
- Cliff Bennett (Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers)
- Richard Bentley (of the publishing firm Bentley's)[3]
- Keith Bosley (1937-), (poet and translator)
- Alan Bown (of The Alan Bown Set)
- Fenner Brockway (1888-1988), (anti-war activist and politician)
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (engineer)
- Mark Brzezicki (drummer with Big Country, Procol Harum)
- Jimmy Carr (comedian)
- Alma Cogan (singer, former pupil at St Joseph's School)
- Gregory Edwards (musician)
- Rod Evans (original lead singer of Deep Purple)
- Tommy Farr (boxer)
- Sean Foley (comedian)[4]
- Thomas Gray (poet, classical scholar, and professor of history)
- Geri Halliwell (entertainer)
- Chip Hawkes (of The Tremeloes)
- Caroline Herschel (astronomer)
- John Herschel (mathematician and astronomer)
- William Herschel (astronomer and composer)
- Sam Hutchinson (footballer)
- Mark Hylton (Olympic athlete)
- Alan Johnson (former Slough postal worker, Cabinet minister)
- Simon Kernick (author)
- Danny King (author)
- Jayne Kitt (Big Brother 7 contestant)
- Iain Lee (entertainer)
- Forrest Mars Sr. (entrepreneur)
- Fiona May (twice world long jump champion)
- Marian McPartland (jazz pianist)
- John Nash (painter)
- Gary Numan (musician)
- Lloyd Owusu (Ghana international footballer)
- Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall (Plantagenet, royal aristocrat)
- Marcia Richardson (Olympic athlete)
- Mark Richardson (Olympic athlete)
- Helen Sharman (scientist and astronaut)
- Kalim Siddiqui (journalist and Muslim activist)
- Billy Smart, Jr (circus owner)
- Una Stubbs (actress)[5]
- Naema Tahir (1970, Dutch writer and feminist of Pakistani descent)
- Ellen Ternan (actress)
- Thousand Yard Stare (indie pop band)
- Tracey Ullman (comedian)
- Robert Watson-Watt (scientist)
- Vic Woodley (footballer)
Deaths and funerals in Slough
- Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (World War II military commander; died in Wexham Park Hospital in 1969)
- Brian Connolly (singer with 1970s group Sweet; died in Wexham Park Hospital in 1997)
- Ronnie Kray (East End gangster; died in Wexham Park Hospital in 1995)
- Princess Margaret (1930-2002), (Windsor; cremated at Slough Crematorium)
- Peter Osgood (1947-2006), (footballer; died while attending his uncle's funeral in Slough)
- Ernie Wise (1925-1999), (comedian; died at The Nuffield Private Hospital in 1999, and was cremated at Slough Crematorium)
References
- ↑ p93, The History of Slough, Maxwell Fraser, Slough Corporation, Slough 1973
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ls4sx
- ↑ Richard Bentley
- ↑ Where you're smiling | | guardian.co.uk Arts
- ↑ Something about Una - Independent on Sunday, 22 February 2004, accessed 28 May 2009
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