Famous Jarrow Residents
Famous former residents of the town, including Ellen Wilkinson MP, Charles Mark Palmer and William Jobling, have been remembered in the names of beers produced by Jarrow Brewing Company, a microbrewery in the town.
- Roger Avon, actor
- Bede, Benedictine monk and scholar
- Catherine Cookson, writer
- Steve Cram, Olympic Athlete
- Peter Flannery, playwright
- William Goat, winner of the Victoria Cross
- Stephen Hepburn, politician
- Jem Mace Famous pugilist died at 6 Princess Street, Jarrow in 1910
- Aidan McCaffery, former Newcastle United footballer.
- John Miles, rock musician, singer, songwriter
- Fergus Montgomery, Conservative MP
- Charles Mark Palmer, shipbuilder, first mayor of Jarrow
- Alan Plater, writer
- Alan Price, musician, born in Washington and brought up in Jarrow
- Jim Purcell, famous half marathon runner known as "Jarra Jim" to the locals
- David Sharpe, silver medalist at 1992 European Championships over 800 Metres
- Gareth Smith, cricketer
- Patrick Stewart, actor, spent the majority of his childhood living in Jarrow, although was born in Mirfield, West Yorkshire.
- Paul Thompson, rock musician, drummer of Roxy Music
- Jimmy Thorpe, Sunderland Football Club goalkeeper who lost his life helping the club win the 1936 League title
- Frank Williams, Formula One team manager, was raised in Jarrow
- Ellen Wilkinson, Labour MP and Jarrow March organiser.
- Wee Georgie Wood, music hall star.
- Christie Elliot (Footballer), Partick Thistle F.C.
- Ray Drinkwater, Goalkeeper with Queens Park Rangers F.C.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“Up through the lubber crust of Wales
I rocketed to astonish
The flashing needle rock of squatters,
The criers of Shabby and Shorten,
The famous stitch droppers.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)