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Local Heroes in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire*

Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire Famous Residents

Cringing Cult of Celebrity (Famous residents and ex-residents.)

• Ian Carmichael - film actor - lived in the Avenues!
• roxanne off of pop idol
• Paul Heaton John Prescott
• beautiful south....didnt they live down grafton street at some point?
• Ronnie Hilton (who)!! The best chicken impressionist Norman Collier (what !!)The Housemartins to name but a few......
• Norman cook aka Fatboy slim Was from hull
• Peter Levy of BBC Look North has a flat in the city
• Joe (Ugh) Longthorne, John (aaaah) Prescott. Maureen Lipman (that's a bit better). The Beautiful South.
• Paul Heaton..... Beautiful South
• Peter And Gerald Rogers (the brothers behind the making of the 'Carry On films', apparently grew up in the Avenues.
• Hull university invented the LCD (liquid crystal display)
• Beautiful South and Everything But The Girl.
• Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti of controversial electronic/noise outfit Throbbing Gristle lived in Hull before moving to London in the early 1970s. When in Hull, they formed the ground-breaking Performance Art collective Coum Transmissions, If you ever want to read about radical people who changed culture via the underground, then read "Wreckers of Civilisation" by Simon Ford- Also, Throbbing Gristle were the first people to utilise on-stage 'sampling' via their own crude inventions.
• Everything But The Girl named the band after a shop on Beverley Road
• Roland he used to entertain outside the Big Top at Hull Fair (now a thing of the past).
• Joe Longthorne
• Didn't the rest of The Spiders From Mars, Trevor Bolder, Woody Woodmansey come from Hull? They were in a band called The Rats (I think) before Bowie lured them.
• The Housemartins/Beautiful South and does anyone remember 'Scarlet'??
• Erm, The Housemartins/Beautiful South, and a couple of other people too i believe!!!
• the beautiful south hail from this wonderful city...
• Paul Heaton lives here, and still frequents many of the pubs in the Newland area.
• Ref Mick Ronson of Spiders from Mars fame - he didn't just work here, his Mum lived 6 doors up from me on the Cottingham Road. The memorial Gardens are in the old Queens Dock and well worth a visit.
• Joe Longthorne
• Dean Windass and Nick Barmby, local boys doing well in the Premiership. One of the League of Gentlemen is from Longhill.
• You can frequently see the guy out of the Beautiful South in the chippie at the bottom of Newland avenue. Norman Cook, alias Fat Boy Slim used to live down Lambert Street for a couple of years
• William Wilberforce, local lad and MP for Yorkshire around 200 years ago. Abolished slavery in the British Empire (with the help of a few mates). You can still visit his house, Larkin refered to it as the 'slave museum' in his poem about Hull, 'Here'. Oh yes, and what about dear old Philip Larkin - ex-Hull University librarian, jazz fan and famous dead poet.
• Roland Gift, lived on Princes Ave for years John Alderton Norman Collier
• Fine Young Cannibals
• The late Mick Ronson, ex Spider from Mars and solo artist. Are there gardens somewhere in Hull with some sort of dedication to Mick as he worked there before joining Bowie's band?
• Clive Sullivan (Rugby League). Hull FC and Hull KR. First black to captain a national sports team.
• John Prescott, (at the time of writing) Deputy Leader of the Labour Party now the Deputy Prime Minister has lived in Hull for years and years and he got into trouble last year for declaring he was "middle class" when his party supposedly stands for working class citizens. He also looks like Buzz Lightyear out of Toy Story!
• Everything But The Girl went to Uni here.
• Beautiful South
• Housemartins
• One of the best bands came from Hull: The Beautiful South.
• Amy Johnson (famous dead airplane woman)
• Andrew Marvell (famous dead writer)
• Joe Longthorne
• Maureen Lipman

Buskers, Street Entertainers

• The newly employed city navigators - YTS no nothings! though good for entertainment when someone speaks no english!
• There are quite a few good ones in the city centre during the day, and some lesser ones whilst you are queuing outside night clubs in the evening.
• Dave the Rave - that smartly dressed mad bloke who swears at you in town. Ask him to do his horse impression.
• The blind accordion player occasionally plays down Whitefriargate.

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Last updated: 2007-08-30