Mail Carrier - Famous Carriers

Famous Carriers

Famous real-life letter carriers include:

• Berry van Aerle, Dutch football player (35 caps)
• Rob Arnold, a chart-topping popstar from New Zealand.
• Raymond van Barneveld, who worked as a postman before becoming a professional darts player.
• Olivier Besancenot, candidate for the French presidential elections in 2002 and 2007
• Peter Bonetti, English goalkeeper who played for Chelsea F.C.
• Charles Bukowski, novelist and poet
• Allan B. Calhamer, the inventor of board game Diplomacy
• Steve Carell, American actor
• Ferdinand Cheval, who spent 33 years building an “ideal castle”
• Ace Frehley, original guitarist for the rock band Kiss, he worked as a mailman before he became the "Spaceman"
• Domingo French, mailman of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, turned into revolutionary and soldier during the May Revolution
• Vic Godard, English punk musician, founder of the Subway Sect, became a postman midway through his music career
• Terry Griffiths, a former postman who became a world-champion snooker player
• David Harvey, a goalkeeper who became a postman after leaving football
• Gladys Hillier, English postwoman, inspiration for the title of an album by Fairport Convention
• Brad Hogg, an Australian cricketer who is a former Perth postman
• Alan Johnson, the former UK Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• Kimeru, a famous Japanese pop singer, was a mailman before he pursued his singing career.
• Keith Knox, a Scottish footballer who also worked as a postman throughout his 25 year career.
• Tom Kruse, MBE (28 August 1914 – 30 June 2011) was a former mailman on the Birdsville Track in the border area between South Australia and Queensland
• Stephen Law, philosopher. Expelled from school and worked as a postman until being accepted to Trinity College, Oxford to study philosophy.
• John Prine, Grammy winning folk singer
• Bon Scott, former lead singer of AC/DC was once a 'postie' in Australia
• Allan Smethurst, English singer known as "The Singing Postman"
• Steve Taylor, a footballer who played for Crystal Palace F.C.
• Neil Webb, a footballer who became a postman after leaving football