Kings Norton - Famous Residents

Famous Residents

  • Andy Akinwolere, BBC Blue Peter TV programme presenter, was educated here, at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School
  • The Revd W. V. Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, was a curate at King’s Norton from late 1940 to 1946
  • Reg Bunn (1905–1971), artist
  • Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister from 1937–1940, lived in King's Norton for most of his life, as did his wife Anne
  • Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer
  • George Dawson, Non-Conformist Preacher and advocate of the Civic Gospel
  • Thomas Hall, Non-Conformist Preacher, pamphleteer, author of 'The loathsomeness of long hair", appointed to Kings Norton Parish in 1629
  • Mick Harris musician, best known for drumming in Napalm Death in 1985-1991; also engaged in a number of side-projects musically varying from jazz, death-grind to ambient industrial
  • Alan Napier actor, best known for playing the butler Alfred Pennyworth in the 1960s Batman television series
  • Alan Nunn May a physicist and a Russian spy was born and lived the early part of his life in Kings Norton.
  • Laurence Inman lives in King's Norton. The stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his part in Sex Lives of the Potato Men often writes about the area in his weekly blog. Inman was voted 3rd in Brummie of the Year 2006.
  • The British Heavy Metal Band Exide was founded in Kings Norton in 2008
  • Charles Piers Egerton Hall who became one of the 50 executed and murdered by the Gestapo on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler on 30 March 1944 following "The Great Escape"

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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:

    “Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “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)