Reigate - Notable People

Notable People

  • Ray Alan, ventriloquist, and "Lord Charles" lived their final years in Reigate.
  • George Best, Manchester United and Northern Ireland football player lived his last years near Reigate.
  • Roger Bisby, journalist, television presenter and radio personality.
  • Hermann Bondi, the Austrian physicist and mathematician lived in Reigate in the 1970s.
  • Tom and Max Chilton, racing drivers, were born in and later lived in Reigate.
  • Norman Cook, disc jockey, was born in Reigate and attended Reigate Grammar School.
  • James Cudworth, Locomotive Superintendent to the South Eastern Railway lived in Reigate from c. 1879 to 1899.
  • Cherith Baldry, author of the Warriors novels.
  • Bob Doe, Royal Air Force Wing Commander.
  • Mia Farrow, film actress, lived here while married to AndrĂ© Previn
  • Newton Faulkner, songwriter and musician, was born here.
  • Dame Margot Fonteyn, ballet dancer, was born here.
  • Louise Fribo, dancer, has a flat here.
  • Francis Frith, photographer and businessman, lived here.
  • Susan Gritton, opera singer, was born here in 1965.
  • Melvyn Hayes, aka Gloria in It Ain't Half Hot Mum was a resident of Glover's Road.
  • Kate Maberly, actress and star of the 1993 feature film The Secret Garden, was born here and attended Dunottar School
  • Ian McKay (formerly Laidlaw), art critic, writer and publisher, lived here and attended Reigate School of Art & Design.
  • Ray Mears, survival expert, attended Reigate Grammar School.
  • Jean Metcalfe, broadcaster.
  • Cliff Michelmore, broadcaster.
  • Spike Milligan, writer and comedian, used to live at Woodhatch in Orchard Way.
  • Alan Minter, boxer, former Undisputed World Middleweight boxing champion, lives in Reigate.
  • Nicholas Owen, BBC News presenter, lives in Reigate.
  • Samuel Palmer, visionary British artist, is buried in Reigate St Mary's churchyard, having lived in Reigate from about 1860 to 1862.
  • Pat Pocock, former England and Surrey cricketer, lives in Reigate.
  • Caroline Quentin, actress, was born in Reigate.
  • Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, gardener, lived for many years in Reigate.
  • Mike Sammes, of the Mike Sammes Singers was born in the town and educated at Reigate Grammar School
  • Richard Thomas, the former Information Commissioner, lives in Reigate
  • David Walliams, writer and star of the Little Britain comedy series attended Reigate Grammar School.
  • British painter Michael Lawrence Cadman RI ARCA (1920-2010) spent his childhood and early married life in Surrey.

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