Famous Residents
- Eliezer Adler - Founder of Jewish Community.
- Marcus Bentley - Narrator of Big Brother
- William Booth - Founder of the Salvation Army
- Catherine Booth - William's daughter. Known as 'La Marechale' she founded the Salvation Army in continental Europe
- Mary Bowes - The Unhappy Countess author and celebrity
- Ian Branfoot - Football manager
- Andy Carroll - Footballer
- Frank Clark - Footballer and manager
- David Clelland - Labour politician and M.P.
- Joseph Cowen - Radical politician
- Steve Cram - Athlete Middle distance runner
- Emily Davies - Educational reformer and feminist. Founder of Girton College Cambridge
- Daniel Defoe - Writer and government agent
- Ruth Dodds - Prominent politician, writer and co-founder of the Little Theatre
- Jonathan Edwards - Athlete and television presenter
- George Elliot - Industrialist and M.P.
- Paul Gascoigne - Footballer
- Alex Glasgow - Singer/songwriter
- Avrohom Gurwicz - Rabbi, Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva.
- Leib Gurwicz - Rabbi, former Dean of Gateshead Yeshiva.
- Jill Halfpenny - Actress
- Chelsea Halfpenny - Actress (niece of Jill Halfpenny)
- David Hodgson Football manager.
- Sharon Hodgson - Member of Parliament
- Norman Hunter - Footballer. Member of 1966 World Cup winning England squad.
- Don Hutchison Footballer
- Brian Johnson - AC/DC frontman
- Tommy Johnson Footballer, ex Celtic.
- Howard Kendall - Footballer and manager
- John Thomas Looney - Shakespeare scholar
- Gary Madine - Sheffield Wednesday Footballer
- Justin McDonald - Actor
- Lawrie McMenemy - Soccer manager/pundit
- Robert Stirling Newall - Industrialist
- Bezalel Rakow - Communal rabbi
- John William Rayner - Flying ace and war hero
- James Renforth - Oarsman
- Sir Robert (Bobby) Robson - football player/manager, notably for England, across Europe, and Newcastle United
- William Shield - Master of the King's Musick
- Christina Stead - Australian novelist
- John Steel - Drummer, The Animals
- Steve Stone - Footballer
- Sir Joseph Swan - Inventor of the electric light bulb
- Chris Waddle - Footballer
- William Wailes - Stained glass maker
- Taylor Wane - Adult entertainer
- Robert Spence Watson - public benefactor
- Sylvia Waugh - Author of the 'Mennyms' series for children
- Chris Wilkie Born in Gateshead, plays guitar in the internationally successful band Dubstar.
- Peter Wilson Born in Gateshead, played for Gateshead F.C, captained Australia.
- Thomas Wilson - Poet/school founder
- (William) Robert Wood - (migrated to Australia 1963) - activist and senator
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“What climbs the stair?
Nothing that common women ponder on
If you are worth my hope! Neither Content
Nor satisfied Conscience, but that great family
Some ancient famous authors misrepresent,
The Proud Furies each with her torch on high.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)