Leamington Spa - People

People

See also: Category:People from Royal Leamington Spa
  • John Betjeman's poem "Death in Leamington" portrays one view of Leamington's ambience in the 1920s
  • Annie Butler, supercentenarian, who was Britain's second oldest person when she died in 2009 at the age of 112.
  • Chris Coleman, Association football manager lives in the town
  • Aleister Crowley, occultist, poet and mountaineer was born in Leamington in 1875.
  • Charles Dickens set a scene in his novel Dombey and Son, and gave readings from his work there in 1855 and 1862.
  • Roberto Di Matteo, Association football manager lives in the town
  • Henry Twiselton Elliston, musician and inventor
  • Ben Foster, West Bromwich Albion F.C goalkeeper
  • Sir Terry Frost R.A. was born in the town in 1915.
  • Trina Gulliver, ladies darts player, a 9-time world champion in the British Darts Organisation, was born in the town in 1969.
  • Ethel R. Harraden Glover (1857–1917), English composer, lived and worked in Leamington Spa. She married Frank Glover, owner of the Leamington Spa Courier newspaper.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne lived in the town, in Lansdowne Circus.
  • Aman Hayer, music producer, born in Leamington Spa and lives in Leamington Spa.
  • David Hobbs, former racing driver for McLaren Formula 1 team, and 24 Hours of Le Mans driver, was born in Leamington Spa.
  • Leonard Hodgson, theologian, lived in Leamington.
  • Christian Horner, team principal of Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team and former driver in F3000, born in Royal Leamington Spa.
  • Russell Howard, comedian and performer lives in the town
  • Antonin Petrak MBE, a Czechoslovakian who served in the SOE on the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, lived in Leamington Spa after he escaped Nazi occupied Europe in 1940-41.
  • Erwin Schrödinger's maternal family was from Leamington Spa; the physicist visited his family there
  • Howard Skempton, minimalist composer lives in Leamington.
  • Lytton Strachey, biographer, attended Leamington College for Boys in Binswood Avenue
  • Randolph Turpin, boxer, was born in Leamington. He defeated Sugar Ray Robinson to become world middleweight champion in 1951.
  • Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, attended Leamington College for Boys in Binswood Avenue
  • Sir Arthur Young, police chief and police reformer, was Chief Constable of Leamington Spa from 1938 to 1941.
  • Malcolm Sayer, aircraft and car designer, designer of the E Type Jaguar lived in Leamington Spa.
  • Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon III and emperor of France lived here in exile between 1838 and 1839.

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