List of people from Walsall

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Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a large market town and administrative centre in West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Birmingham, 7 miles (11 km) east of Wolverhampton and 9 miles (14 km) from Lichfield. This list a list of notable people who were born in, lived in, or were otherwise strongly associated with Walsall.

Entertainment[edit]

Acting[edit]

  • Bobby Ash (1925–2007), British-Canadian actor born in Walsall[1]
  • Zoe Dawson (born 1979 in Walsall) actress, minor roles in the BBC soap opera Doctors[citation needed]
  • Don Gilet (born 1967 in Caldmore) actor, roles in BBC productions Babyfather, EastEnders and 55 Degrees North.[citation needed]
  • Jeffrey Holland (born Jeffrey Michael Parkes, 1946 in Walsall) actor,[2] roles in TV sitcoms and in Hi-de-Hi!, attended Queen Mary’s Grammar School.
  • Matthew Marsden (born 1973 in West Bromwich) stage and film actor,[3] brought up on the Yew Tree Estate in Walsall and schooled in Wednesbury and Great Barr.
  • Peter McEnery (born 1940 in Walsall) stage TV and film actor.[4] Gave Hayley Mills her first “grown-up” screen kiss in the 1964 film The Moon-Spinners.
  • Sue Nicholls (born 1943 in Walsall) actress,[5] played Audrey Roberts in Coronation Street.
  • Erin O’Connor MBE (born 1978 in Brownhills) model and TV actress, attended Brownhills Community School[citation needed]
  • Meera Syal CBE (born 1961) comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. Brought up in Essington and attended Queen Mary’s High School.
  • Richard Wattis (born 1912 in Wednesbury – 1975), actor
  • Frank Windsor (born 1927 in Walsall) actor,[6] mainly on TV. Attended Queen Mary’s Grammar School. Played DS John Watt in Z-Cars from 1962 to 1965.

Music[edit]

  • Amar (born 1982), British Indian singer
  • Andy C (born 1976), DJ, record producer and co-founder of RAM Records[7]
  • Rob Collins (1963 in Rowley Regis – 1996) musician,[8] original keyboardist of The Charlatans
  • Martin Degville (born 1961 in Walsall) lead singer and co-songwriter[9] of the UK pop band Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
  • Goldie aka Clifford Joseph Price, MBE (born 1965 in Walsall) musician,[10] DJ, graffiti artist, visual artist and actor, attended St. Francis of Assisi RC Secondary School in Aldridge
  • Rob Halford (born 1951 in Sutton Coldfield) raised in Walsall, singer songwriter,[11] lead vocalist for the heavy metal band Judas Priest.
  • Noddy Holder MBE (born 1946 in Caldmore) musician and actor,[12] lead singer and guitarist in glam rock band Slade
  • Tom Major-Ball (1879 in Bloxwich – 1962) music hall and circus performer[13] and father of John Major, former Prime Minister
  • Frank Mullings (1881 in Walsall – 1953) a leading English tenor[14] with Beecham Opera Company and its successor, the British National Opera Company
  • Mark Rhodes (born 1981 in Darlaston) singer and TV presenter, finished 2nd in the 2nd series of Pop Idol, lives in Wombourne.[citation needed]
  • Jorja Smith (born 1997 in Walsall) singer-songwriter[citation needed]
  • Connie Talbot (born 2000) from Streetly, teen singer[15] 2nd place in the first series of Britain’s Got Talent (series 1)
  • Kathryn Tickell OBE, DL (born 8 June 1967 in Walsall) is an English musician, noted for her mastery of the Northumbrian smallpipes and fiddle.[16]
  • Dave Walker (born 1945 in Walsall) singer and guitarist,[17] front-man for a number of bands; including Idle Race, Savoy Brown, Fleetwood Mac, and, briefly, Black Sabbath.

TV and radio[edit]

Politics[edit]

  • William Dixon Allott, (1817–1892) born in Walsall, Mayor of Adelaide 1873–1874[22]
  • David Ennals, Baron Ennals PC (1922–1995) Labour Party politician born in Walsall[23]
  • Bruce George (born 1942) Labour Party politician,[24] MP for Walsall South 1974–2010
  • Eddie Hughes (born 1968) Conservative Party politician,[25] MP for Walsall North 2017 to date.
  • Joseph Leckie (Born Glasgow 24 May 1866 – 9 August 1938) after whom Joseph Leckie school, now an academy was named. MP for Walsall 1931 – 1938.
  • Sir Harmar Nicholls (1912 in Walsall – 2000) Conservative Party politician,[26] MP for Peterborough 1950–1974.
  • John Stonehouse (1925 – 1988) Labour Party politician,[27] MP for Walsall North 1974–1976, notable for his unsuccessful attempt to fake his own death in 1974
  • David Winnick (born 1933) Labour Party politician,[28] MP for Walsall North 1979–2017.
  • Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge MD (born 1941 in Walsall) politician,[29] Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park in London 1997–2005, made a life peer in June 2005.
  • Valerie Vaz (born 1954) Labour politician[30] and solicitor MP for Walsall South 2010 to date.

Public service and commerce[edit]

  • Norman Ashe (born 1943), footballer
  • Fred Bakewell (1908 in Walsall – 1983) was a Northamptonshire and England opening batsman,[45] renowned largely because of his unorthodox methods
  • David Brown (born 1942 in Walsall) former English cricketer,[46] attended Queen Mary’s Grammar School played in twenty six Tests from 1965 to 1969
  • Colin Charvis (born 1972 in Sutton Coldfield) attended Queen Mary’s Grammar School in Walsall,[47] a former captain of the Wales national rugby union team
  • Leon Drysdale (born 1991), footballer
  • Nick Gillingham MBE (born 1967 in Walsall) swimmer,[48] competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
  • Terry Holbrook (born 1945 in Walsall) football referee formerly in the Football League and Premier League
  • Dean Keates (born 1978 in Beechdale) retired footballer and former First Team manager of Walsall.
  • Vaughan Lee (born 1982) Mixed Martial Artist formerly competing in UFC.[citation needed]
  • Mark Lewis-Francis MBE (born Darlason 1982) 100 metres sprinter,[49] member of the gold medal winning 4×100 metres relay team at the 2004 summer Olympics.
  • Robert Marshall (1869–1937), cricketer
  • Rupert Moon former Llanelli and Welsh rugby international, known as the “Walsall Welshman” he became a radio and television presenter in Wales.[50]
  • Lee Naylor (born in 1980 in Mossley) former professional footballer[citation needed]
  • David Platt (born Walsall 1966) English-born[51] Australian darts player
  • Rachel Unitt (born 1982 in Bentley) England Women’s footballer[52]
  • Eleanor Simmonds OBE (born Walsall 1994) Paralympian swimmer,[53] won gold in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Writing[edit]

Science[edit]

Murderers[edit]

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