Famous people wot went to your skool

[Black Country Ste]

Lee Hughes - footballer.
Jamelia (apparently. I can't find any reference) - singer.

 

[Herbie]

Following CoG's revelations about his colleague, let's start a thread about famous school pupils.

I went to school with Warwick Davies, the famous dwarf, he was about 7 years older than me, but even then was much shorter.

Joe Strummer was also a former pupil but he left well before I arrived. The school never made a big deal out of this, probably because he wasnt their idea of a model pupil.

James Naughtie went to my school as did Braveheart fitba player and Scottish captain Colin Hendry

 

[The Brewer]

Ian Rush, my hero and Anfield legend.....Always choked when I talked to him on one of his trips back to the school

 

[RedRider]

A handful of rugby league pros, a writer of bleak '80s social realist TV drama and the drummer from a relatively successful britpop band.

 

[Hover Fly]

Bryan Martin, BBC news reader, of "Sugar shortage – Sainsbury's say there should be sufficient supplies in the shops by Saturday" fame.

 

[RedRider]

Ian Rush, my hero and Anfield legend.....Always choked when I talked to him on one of his trips back to the school

One of the lads in my dad's work - big factory in Liverpool - did a huge oil painting of Ian Rush and it was presented to him before he left for Juve.
It had to be huge to get his nose in.
He was made up and my dad who was handy with a camera was asked to take pics of it so Rushy's family could have copies. Few weeks later my dad got lovely letter of thanks from the man himself. Lovely bloke. True legend. Appalling handwriting.

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Levi Bellfield
Although he's probably as infamous as he is famous.
A few people I went to school with are doing time for murder. One of my childhood friends actually made the press for killing another childhood friend in a pretty horrific manner and going on the run.
Think I personally know about five people doing time for murder, which is pretty worrying

 

[ceepeebee]

FFS.

If his initials are TB then we went to the same school. I'd have gone with Geoff Miller or Bob Wilson (anchorman) though...

I went to primary school with Kevin pressman ex of Sheffield Wednesday, didn't know him at the time though.

 

[Cubist]

Errrr...
William Tyndale
Jim Rosenthal
Nigel Stalmer Smith
Daniel Sandford (BBC Correspondent)
Julian Opie (designed Blur's album covers)
Guy Browning (Guardian Office Politics)
Colin Good (Bryan Ferry's musical director and pianist on the As Time Goes By album/tour)
Dr Ben Goldacre (another Guardianista-Bad Science)
Sir Thomas More
Ivor Novello
Cardinal Wolsey

There are others, but I thought listing any more would be considered ostentatious.

 

[2bluegp]

Tony Wilson, Factory records boss did a stint teaching at my school.
half the cast of Coronation st seemed to go there as well.

 

[Rapples]

A Jewish Olympic runner who had a well known film made about him
A previous LibDem leader
A previous Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Cameron (I was his fag)
A previous member of the Blow Monkeys (now top music producer, and Dad was David Bowie's manager)
A previous Pub Landlord who now makes occasional TV and stage appearances.

 

[vernon]

Think I personally know about five people doing time for murder, which is pretty worrying

Try a teaching career in inner city schools. I've taught at least five murderers and I've lost count of the number of ex-pupils serving lengthy sentences for rapes and crimes of violence.

 

[ufkacbln]

We were famous for a School Club - Not persons.

We had the St Ivo Entomology and Natural History Society, which was at that time a massive animal collection owned and looked after by the School with everything from Stick insects and mice / rats tht other schools had to Tarantulas, Iguanas, Pythons, Boa Constrictors etc. There were specially built temperate, tropical and "normal" rooms.

We used to exhibit the animals all over the place from School's exhibitions to London Zoo and the Natural History Museum. Visiting other schools to give talks and exhibitions was another feature,
We used to have licences from the "MInistry" and go abroad each year to collect our own specimens!

As a kid though tit was brilliant to be part of an internationally recognised organisation. Contributing locusts to research groups for study, being on speaking terms with the likes of Gerald Durell, the Newmark brothers and David Attenborough were brilliant!

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

Try a teaching career in inner city schools.

I'm not sure if I should admire you, thank you or pity you... definitely not an easy position to have.
Out of curiosity what subject do you teach Vernon?

 

[Fnaar]

Out of curiosity what subject do you teach Vernon?

Citizenship