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:
“There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don’t mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that’s the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well- informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life—their Christianity, for instance.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)