Chesterfield - Notable People

Notable People

This section needs additional citations for verification.

Notable people to come from Chesterfield include:

  • Olave Baden-Powell, wife to Robert Baden-Powell and Chief Guide from 1918 until her death in 1977.
  • John Hurt, actor.
  • Steven Blakeley Actor in TV drama series Heartbeat.
  • Baron Bowden, English scientist and educationist, particularly associated with the development of UMIST as a successful university.
  • Tommy Briggs, English footballer and Football manager.
  • Paul Burrell, former royal butler and author.
  • Barbara Castle, former Labour government minister.
  • Pete Dodd, member of 1980s band, The Thompson Twins.
  • Francis Frith, photographer.
  • Thomas Gascoyne, professional cyclist who set world records for both 25 miles and the flying start quarter-mile. He rode in Europe, America and Australia but died at the Battle of Passchendaele.
  • Jeff Gilberthorpe, artist and author.
  • Simon Groom, former Blue Peter presenter.
  • Jo Guest, former glamour model and Page Three girl.
  • William Edwin Harvey, MP lived here.
  • Ian Hyland, Daily Mirror television critic
  • Nigel Illingworth, cricketer
  • Jeremy Kemp, actor
  • Thomas Latimer, WWE wrestler. He performs under the stage name Kenneth Cameron
  • Frank Lee, MP lived here.
  • John Lukic, footballer.
  • Rik Makarem Actor in TV soap opera Emmerdale
  • Violet Markham CH, writer, social reformer, mayor and administrator.
  • Geoff Miller, former Derbyshire and England cricketer.
  • Henry Normal, co-writer of The Royle Family
  • Johnny Pearson, composer of theme tunes for Captain Pugwash, News at Ten and All Creatures Great and Small.
  • Samuel Pegge (1704–1796), antiquary, Old Whittington vicar.
  • Toby Perkins MP, British Labour Party politician, MP for Chesterfield 2010- present; Shadow Business Minister
  • Jon Podgorski, member of 1980s band, The Thompson Twins.
  • Claire Price, actress
  • Sir Robert Robinson, Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on plant dyestuffs (anthocyanins) and alkaloids.
  • Joe Screen, international speedway rider.
  • Mark Shaw, lead singer of 1980s band Then Jerico
  • Jason Statham, actor and former diver
  • Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, former Motörhead drummer
  • Percy Toplis, criminal active during the 1910s.
  • Eric Varley, former MP for Chesterfield and past Chairman of Coalite.
  • Mark Webber, guitarist in the band Pulp and curator of avant-garde cinema
  • Bob Wilson, former football goalkeeper and broadcaster.
  • Peter Wright, MI5 officer, author of Spycatcher
  • Ryan Fletcher, bassist in the band Lawson.

Other prominent people connected with the town:

  • Gordon Banks, England's World Cup Winning goalkeeper played for Chesterfield F.C. between 1955 and 1959.
  • Tony Benn, Labour MP for Chesterfield from 1984 to 2001.
  • Geoff Capes, Two time winner of The Worlds Strongest Man competition now lives in Chesterfield.
  • The Venerable Edmond Francis Crosse, was the first Archdeacon of Chesterfield.
  • Erasmus Darwin, (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802), one of the founder members of the Lunar Society, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers. He was educated at Chesterfield School.
  • George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. He ended his days at Tapton House which is now a Chesterfield College campus.
  • Kerry Hallam, artist, folk musician and writer, trained at Chesterfield Art College for two years.
  • Alfred Seaman successful Victorian photographer opened his first studio in the town
  • Sir Montague Burton, founder of the Burton chain of companies, opened his first store in Chesterfield in 1903.

Read more about this topic:  Chesterfield

Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or people:

    “Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “The fact that white people readily and proudly call themselves “white,” glorify all that is white, and whitewash all that is glorified, becomes unnatural and bigoted in its intent only when these same whites deny persons of African heritage who are Black the natural and inalienable right to readily—proudly—call themselves “black,” glorify all that is black, and blackwash all that is glorified.”
    —Abbey Lincoln (b. 1930)