Famous Residents
Main category: People from IpswichProbably the most famous person born in the town is the Tudor Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. The artist Thomas Gainsborough and the cartoonist "Giles" worked here, Horatio, Lord Nelson became Steward of Ipswich, and Margaret Catchpole began her adventurous career here. Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson were both successful managers of Ipswich Town F.C.
- Nik Kershaw 80s pop singer was raised in Ipswich
- Richard Shaw, author of the best-selling diet book "Cut the Crap" wrote the book whilst living in Ipswich
- Professional darts player Mervyn King (born 1966) was born in Ipswich, as was the 1983 World Champion Keith Deller (born 1959).
- It is also purported that Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales was born here.
- Vocalist Dani Filth of renowned extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.
- Punk rock band The Adicts
- The fattest man in the world, Paul Mason, who once weighed 70 stone, lives in Ipswich.
Academy Award-nominated English actor Ralph Fiennes was born in an Ipswich hospital while his parents were living near Southwold but did not live in the town.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
—Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)