People
The following is a list of notable people who have grown up, or lived in Leyland:
- Trevor Hemmings, multi-millionaire philanthropist spent his teenage years in Leyland
- Tom Bidwell, Academy Award nominated screenwriter of the 2009 film, Wish 143
- Mark Strange, martial arts expert and film producer
- William Bennett, 1920s footballer
- Fred Beardsworth, footballer, who emigrated to America to play in the NAFBL
- Allen Hill, played in the first ever cricket Test
- Frank Moss, football manager and former player, known for his six year contract with Arsenal
- Mike Salmon, retired goalkeeper, who currently works as a football manager
- John Woodcock, executed by the Stuarts in 1646, for his Catholicism
- Lukas Bennett, Former Pontins Blue Coat, musician, Actor, Comedian, and Writer
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“I didn’t have any looks, I didn’t have any talent, and it was easy for me to say to the Lord, “I don’t have anything.” If you only knew where I came from ... this leetle-bitty town with no more than twelve hundred people in it. So ... anything I am today, He is the one who has done it [ellipses in source].”
—Kathryn Kuhlman (1907–1976)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“But when did love not try to change
The world back to itself no cost,
No past, no people else at all
Only what meeting made us feel,
So new, and gentle-sharp, and strange?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)