Famous Speakers
- Sidney Grapes - author of The Boy John Letters
- Bernard Matthews - turkey tycoon
- The Nimmo Twins - comedy duo
- Horatio Nelson - "I am a Norfolk man, and glory in being so"; also said to Captain Hardy "Do you anchor" (an order, not a question, in the Dialect)
- Singing Postman - aka Allan Smethurst
- Keith Skipper - former Norfolk broadcaster and dialect expert
- Peter Trudgill - professor of sociolinguistics, author of several books on the Norfolk dialect and currently honorary professor of sociolinguistics at the University of East Anglia
- Maurice Wood - Bishop of Norwich, recorded the gospel in Norfolk dialect
- The Kipper Family, exponents of comedy folk, whose traditions are being kept barely alive by Sid Kipper.
- Ida Fenn - author of "Tales of a Countryman", a collection of over 20 years Broad Norfolk writing of "Boy Jimma and His Family" published in the Yarmouth Mercury.
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