Famous Residents
- Jimmy McIntyre, football manager was born in Darlaston in 1881 and started his playing career with the local football team.
- Graham Hawkins ex footballer and manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers was born here on 5 March 1946
- Netan Sansara, first Asian to play for the England U-18 team, and also plays regularly for League One Walsall FC, is also a Darlaston native. Netan also attended Darlaston Comprehensive School. Sansara's Grandfather Ram Sansara also owned two pubs in Darlaston "The Three Horse Shoes" on Pinfold Street and "The Duke Of York" on Dangerfield Lane.
- The athlete Mark Lewis-Francis was born at Darlaston in 1981.
- The town was also the home of footballer Billy Annis (1878–1944) who played 143 games in defence for Wolverhampton Wanderers between 1898 and 1905.
- Mark Rhodes, runner-up in ITV's Pop Idol 2003 contest, and children's television presenter, is also from Darlaston.
- Darlaston is the home town of the professional boxer and former Midlands Welterweight Champion Stuart Elwell.
- John Fiddler, musician, member of 1970s band Medicine Head
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)