[Sussex] Name a famous Sussex person.

[Norman Potting]

Nick Van Eede - Cutting Crew main man

 

[Justice]

Jamie Theakston used to go to Albion home and away matches as a teen was often joining our group

 

[timbha]

Steve Harley (cockney rebel) lived in Hangleton Road Hove when he was a child (where he caught polio)

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Julie Walters owns a farm somewhere in Sussex, Bernie Dawes our late programme seller extroadinaire's son used to work for her.

To be honest the list of stars of stage and screen who have resided in this part of the world over the years, is virtually endless.

 

[Mexican Seagull]

Where did Dave Greenfield live?

One of the streets off Wilmington Way and was a year or two above me at Varndean Grammar

 

[Flagship]

Chris Eubank
William the Conqueror
Duke & Duchess of Norfolk
Alan Minter

 

[Flagship]

Alison Fisher - snooker champ from Peacehaven.

 

[mile oak]

Billy Idol, Dan Walker, Gareth Southgate, Ronnie Barker, Gary Moore, Robert Smith, Nicholas Soames, Peter James, Adele, Gerry Ryan

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Chris Eubank
William the Conqueror
Duke & Duchess of Norfolk
Alan Minter

You have crossed all spectrums of society there!

 

[The Clamp]

Tara Fitzgerald is from Cuckfield.

Harry Enfield from Horsham. Not sure about his chums.

Nicolette Sheridan born in Worthing.

Ms Dynamite - Crawley.

Suggs - not a born Londoner. Hastings.

 

[rothergull]

Dave Greenfield of the Stranglers

Ian Grant manager of the Stranglers,Big Country and Arthur Brown plus lifelong Brighton fan.

 

[Yoda]

Jamie Theakston used to go to Albion home and away matches as a teen was often joining our group

Been diagnosed with cancer

Jamie Theakston: Heart Radio host reveals he has laryngeal cancer

The presenter says a biopsy revealed it is stage one and the prognosis is positive.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

"Lord" Byron Dafoe...long time goalie through the 90s for the Boston Bruins, amongst others. Born in Worthing 1971....moved to British Columbia at 2 months old.
Still claiming him as a Sussex lad

 

[Insel affe]

Captain Peter Love from Lewes pirate

 

[boik]

I went to school with Simon Nye, writer of Men Behaving Badly amongst many other things. Seem to remember that he lived in Henfield.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Frank Bourne of Rourke‘s Drift game was born in Balcombe.

 

[Insel affe]

I went to school with Simon Nye, writer of Men Behaving Badly.

Boys behaving badly then !

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Lee Miller - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Lived in Chiddingly, with her husband Roland Penrose. Picasso occasionally visited them .

Bob Hoskins - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Also lived in Chiddingly for a while.

 

[Milano]

Billy Idol, Dan Walker, Gareth Southgate, Ronnie Barker, Gary Moore, Robert Smith, Nicholas Soames, Peter James, Adele, Gerry Ryan

I thought Robert Smith was from Redhill in Surrey?

James Herbert was a Sussex chap I think?

 

[Simster]

I thought Robert Smith was from Redhill in Surrey?

James Herbert was a Sussex chap I think?

Smith is from Crawley - and a QPR fan. He was probably born in Redhill (East Surrey hospital)?