Notable People
The television presenter Adam Kingswood (from BBC TV's The Truth About Property), Richard Bacon and professional golfers Oliver Wilson and Greg Owen come from Mansfield. The singer Alvin Stardust lived there as a child. Radio, Television and West End actor Stephen Critchlow was raised and schooled in Mansfield and pianist John Ogdon was born in the suburb of Mansfield Woodhouse in 1937. Mark Holmes, lead singer of the Canadian New Wave/stadium rock group Platinum Blonde, was born and partly raised there. Mansfield is also the home of the Cantamus Girls Choir, World Choir Olympics champions. As well as this it also features a thriving music scene with many promising up and coming young artists.
- Nicholas Crafts - Economic Historian
- Leo Lyons - Ten Years After, Leo Lyons' Kick, Hundred Seventy Split - Bassist, Songwriter, Producer
- Ric Lee - Ten Years After, Ric Lee Blues Project - Drummer
- Robert Kozluk - Barnsley F.C. footballer
- James Perch - Newcastle United F.C. footballer
- Kris Commons - Celtic F.C. footballer
- Craig Disley - Shrewsbury Town F.C. footballer
- Rebecca Adlington - 2012 Olympic bronze medalist and 2008 Olympic swimming gold medalist, 400 m and 800m freestyle, the latter in a new world record time.
- Joel Peat - Lead guitarist of the band Lawson
- Joe Mills - Green Date singer/guitarist
- Kieran Limb - (Ex Green Date guitarist)
- John Balance - Coil singer/musician
- Wes Dolan - Actor and Singer/Songwriter
- Sam Hynd - Paralympic Gold medalist 400 m freestyle and Bronze medalist in the 200 m Individual Medley
- John Bainbridge Webster - Chair of Systematic Theology at King's College, University of Aberdeen
The ancestral home of Lord Byron, Newstead Abbey, is located not far away in Ravenshead.
- Liam Lawrence - Former Mansfield Town footballer, now playing for Portsmouth FC in the Championship.
- Robert Dodsley - Playwright, Poet and bookseller. Wrote The King and The Miller of Mansfield and its sequel, Sir John Cockle, both of which appeared at Drury Lane in 1736 and 1737 respectively.
- William Martin, naturalist, was born in Mansfield in 1767.
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