Famous People Who Worked in Reserved Occupations
The following list contains famous and notable people who worked in any reserved occupation, whether it was as a Bevin Boy or a doctor, etc.:
| Peter, Lord Archer of Sandwell | Former Member of Parliament | Represented both Rowley Regis and Tipton; and latterly for Warley West. Solicitor General for England and Wales from March 1974 to May 1979. Also chaired the Enemy Property Claims Assessment panel. |
| Sir Stanley Bailey | Police officer | Former chief constable of Northumbria Police |
| John Comer | English Actor | Comer began his career as a bevin boy until gaining engineering apprenticeship at Metropolitan-Vickers long later to become well known for his roles as Les Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared and as cafe owner Sid in the first 10 years of the longest running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 until his death in 1984. |
| John Reginald Christie | Serial killer | Was a special constable during World War II, despite having a criminal record for theft and assault. He also served in the Sherwood Foresters during World War I. |
| Walter Cronkite | Journalist | Covered the conflict as a reporter |
| Hans Carossa (1878–1956) | artist | |
| Douglas Edwards | Journalist | Worked on the home front |
| Albert Einstein | Physicist and political theorist | In the First World War worked on making flame throwers for the German Army. 'Pacifist' who also did consultancy work for the US Navy |
| (Lord) Paul Hamlyn | Founder of the Hamlyn group of publishers and Music for Pleasure (record label) | Worked as a Bevin boy at Oakdale Colliery |
| Hanns Johst (1890–1979) | artist and "Reichskultursenator" | |
| Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878–1962) | artist | |
| Leslie Howard | Actor | Shot down by German fighters over the Atlantic. |
| Dickson Mabon | Moderate UK Labour politician | On his discharge in 1948 he went to the University of Glasgow to read medicine. |
| Agnes Miegel (1879–1964) | artist | |
| Eric Morecambe | Comedian | Half of the British comedy double act Morecambe and Wise, Morecambe worked at a mine in Accrington for 11 months, which may have affected his health and led to heart attacks later in life. |
| Jock Purdon | Folk singer/poet | Purdon stayed on in the Durham coal mines after the war. "For me there's three great generals - Geronimo, Alexander the Great and Arthur Scargill". |
| Peter Alan Rayner | Numismatic Author | Rayner was conscripted into the mines during World War II. |
| Brian, Lord Rix, CBE, DL | Actor/manager, and president of Mencap | Rix volunteered to leave the RAF to join the Bevin Boy Scheme. "I have never regretted the decision," he says. |
| Peter Shaffer | Dramatist | The author of Equus and Amadeus, he graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge. |
| Alf Sherwood | Footballer | Went on to win 41 caps for Wales |
| Gerald Smithson | Cricketer | While serving as a Bevin Boy, Smithson was called into the Test cricket team for a tour of the West Indies. |
| Jimmy Savile | Broadcaster | Worked as a Bevin Boy |
| Jock Stein | Football manager | Managed the first British football club to win the European Cup (Celtic in 1967). He worked as a coalminer during the war. |
| Leo Szilard | Physicist | Essential to the development of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Alan Turing | Mathematician | Deveoped cryptographic theory working at Bletchley Park. Later persecuted for being homosexual. |
| Frank Whitcombe (1913–1958) | Rugby League International | Won 14 caps for Wales & 2 for Great Britain |
| Hubert James Willey | Police Officer | Served until his death in 1948. Had served in the British Army in World War I. |
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—François Truffaut (1932–1984)
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
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Recalling the Book of Enoch, in which fallen angels were condemned to be stars.
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