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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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