Notable People
Further information: List of people from WakefieldNovelist George Gissing was born is Wakefield in 1857. Sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born in Wakefield in 1903. David Storey born in Wakefield in 1933 was a novelist and playwright who in 1960 wrote This Sporting Life, which was made into a film in 1963. Former Archbishop of York, David Hope, born 1940, The Rt Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Hope of Thornes KCVO PC, was born in Thornes.
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