Famous Residents
- Jimmy McIntyre, football manager was born in Darlaston in 1881 and started his playing career with the local football team.
- Graham Hawkins ex footballer and manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers was born here on 5 March 1946
- Netan Sansara, first Asian to play for the England U-18 team, and also plays regularly for League One Walsall FC, is also a Darlaston native. Netan also attended Darlaston Comprehensive School. Sansara's Grandfather Ram Sansara also owned two pubs in Darlaston "The Three Horse Shoes" on Pinfold Street and "The Duke Of York" on Dangerfield Lane.
- The athlete Mark Lewis-Francis was born at Darlaston in 1981.
- The town was also the home of footballer Billy Annis (1878–1944) who played 143 games in defence for Wolverhampton Wanderers between 1898 and 1905.
- Mark Rhodes, runner-up in ITV's Pop Idol 2003 contest, and children's television presenter, is also from Darlaston.
- Darlaston is the home town of the professional boxer and former Midlands Welterweight Champion Stuart Elwell.
- John Fiddler, musician, member of 1970s band Medicine Head
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“Sole and self-commanded works,
Fears not undermining days,
Grows by decays,
And, by the famous might that lurks
In reaction and recoil,
Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)