Famous Residents, Past and Present
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- Gladstone Adams – inventor of the windscreen wiper and former mayor
- Michael Bridges – former Newcastle United and Sunderland football player
- Sydney Drysdale – international bowls player – skippered the men's gold medal winning fours at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher also known as Colonel Rudolf Abel – Soviet intelligence officer (attended Whitley Bay Grammar School, now Whitley Bay High School)
- Graham Fenton – footballer
- Toby Flood – England rugby union international
- Steve Furst – comedian
- Greg Rutherford - Current Hartlepool United football player
- John Gilroy – artist of Guinness advertisement fame
- Robson Green – actor
- Denise Welch – actress, dancer and television presenter
- Tom Hadaway – playwright
- Paul Harvey – musician and Stuckist artist
- W. E. Johns – author of Biggles (c. 1925)
- Ian La Frenais – comedy writer (The Likely Lads, Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet)
- Mark Lawrence – professional darts player
- Graham Laws – Football League referee
- Nick Martin – news correspondent, Channel 4 News – born and educated in Whitley Bay
- John Middleton – actor (Emmerdale)
- Peter Ramage – Queens Park Rangers and former Newcastle United player – former pupil of Whitley Bay High School
- Lucy Ratcliffe – won the first series of the Living TV programme Britain's Next Top Model
- Andrea Riseborough – actress
- Sid Smith – writer
- Laura Spence – schoolgirl at Monkseaton High School who was at the centre of a national political row about elitism in higher education in 2000 after being rejected by Oxford University
- Andy Taylor – Duran Duran guitarist
- Steven Taylor – Newcastle United defender – former pupil at Valley Gardens Middle School
- Hilton Valentine – guitarist, The Animals
- Colin Watson – writer of detective novels televised as series 'Murder Most English' – lived for many years in Monkseaton
- Mike Williamson – Newcastle United football player
- Aileen Mills – Olympic 400m athlete – now trains athletes and is a school teacher
- Emily Hilda Young – novelist
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—François Truffaut (1932–1984)
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—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)