Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Crawley, West Sussex*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

You can tell us more about Crawley.

• The oomph loompa from johnny drepp's version of charlie and the Chocolate factory. My brother saw his wife in town and as far as I know they both still live in broadfield (she's a midget also)
• gareth southgate crap footballer, sharon davies crap swimmer, chico crap singer/stripper and william hague - acid bath murderer
• Alan Minter. Haig the Acid Bath Murderer. Laura Moffatt the most useless MP that Crawley has ever Had..PERIOD.
• The Cure went to St Wilfrids NOT Hazelwick.. I went to school with one of the guy's nephews.. The Feeling also went to St Wilfrids
• my mate dave!(nineteen84) i saw ant and dec in the old crawley leisure center once
• Robert Smith (The Cure)
• JORDAN AND PETER ANDRE WAS DOING BABY SHOPPING HERE AT MOTHERCARE A LITTLE WHILE AGO
• In October 2004, Andrew (Freddie) Flintoff came into Pizza Hut at the megaplex with his wife and new born baby... I have the autograph to prove it!
• Gareth Southgate went to Hazelwick, daley thompson pentaphalete, Ian sepember Crawley Captain and the Cure!
• I can't believe that nobody has yet mentioned Crawley's two greatest sons -- yes, Big Brother's Eugene Sully and X-Factor's Chico are both Crawley boys. Yep, that's right, our main export as a town seems to be a ready supply of wankers for crap reality television. But den again, dat iz all duh chavs is watchin', innit?
• the only people crawley haave are eugine ,chico who trust me i aint tellin knowone else but miss dinamite or miss daily used to live here and her little bro and her dada still do
• Chico!
• The Acid Bath Murderer?
• OH MY GOD EUGINE FROM BIG BRUVA LIVED HERE and nadia but she aint much to blag about...if u can call her a she...!!!!!!!!!
• gareth southgate used to live in northgate ms dynamites family still live in crawley i think ms dynamite lives in london now dont blame her at least in the city there is more to do then this shit hole of a town
• Lee Minter is not the son of Alan Minter!!! That would be Ross Minter.
• You forgot that Eugene from big brother.
• Robert Smith of The Cure. Alan Minter. Gareth Southgate. "Grouty". That plonker off "big brother" 2005.
• rumours dat shane richie WAS ere. gareth southgate used 2 live in pound hill, nadia from big bruva lived in ifeild, and miss dynamite lived ere 2!!! wow !!!
• Miss dynamite and matt from busteds aunt
• Mark (the Ginge) Runchman and his 2 brothers play in some of the pubs from time to time....although the brothers have only ever been seen on the posters!?
• jamie tando fat gaz
• ian hunt
• George Bush lived in Crawley for a brief time, Crawley was his inspiration . Barry Evans. Four memebers of Slipknot lived in Crawley, Corey actually made his first mask in Crawley.
• Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts - Band from the 60-70s ("Seaside Shuffle") Jona Lewie - Keyboad Player
• daniel wheller and mel baker- the only peolple in crawley ever to go to university
• Gareth Southgate.....
• garath southgate
• Alicia Duvall used to live in the town, pre-boob job
• Pool player Barry Davis, now more commonly famed for his large gut, poor dress sense and shiny bald head!
• Robin Goodridge, drummer for Bush was born in Crawley. But he was raised mostly in Horsham.
• Gareth Southgate went to Hazelwick school in Crawley.
• My dad met Alan Minter (boxer), I went to school with his kid. (Not my dad's kid, Alan's. Though my brother did go to the same school as me) The kid's name was Lee. I could kick his ass. (Why he insisted on bringing that bloody donkey to school is anyone's guess.)
• Gareth Southgate, the man who missed dwelled here
• The Cure (Music band) Nick Buckfield (Athlete) Sally Gunnell went to school at Haselwick
• Gareh Southgate and you fuckin missed! Hazelwick scum
• Graham "Stavros" Masters, the winner of the Kebab man challenge at TROYS Kebab shop! Weldone Graham
• garath southgate
• Sharon Davies (Swimmer/Diver) used to drink in the WHITE KNIGHT. BEERZONE are a Crawley based punk band that are HUGE in AMERICA, they've graced the cover of Q, but no-one in Crawley has ever heard of them and few people in UK listen to them. They all used to drink in the Firkin (now the Railway).
• That guy from citizen smith used to live here - but now that's the goffs park inn. that's all i can think of.
• The cure came from crawley,a certain group of people in a un-named pub kept playing their songs over and over again. This in turn led to the music machine being smashed up
• dee jay triple d blowing it apart on the garage scene at the moment
• Stephanie Roberts and Natalie Bryant
• The Housemartins used to busk in Crawley! and Dorking, Redhill and Reigate.
• i would just like to correct the writer of famous people my uncles name for a start is ALF PEGLER and yes there is a road named after him but he was not a taxi driver his brother FRANK PEGLER was and they were both trade unionists and again the surname is PEGLER!
• Crawley is so not the home town of Blur!!!
• Gareth Southgate!! Hooray!!
• The band Blur came from crawley.
• Ex band member Stuart 'Baxter' Wilkinson used to go to one of the secondry schools here.
• No-one would associate themselves with this dump - oh apart from that loser Gareth Southgate.
• Alan Minter - Boxer
• Barry Sheene actualy lived in Charlwood Jane (deceased) former cartoon strip character in the Daily Mirror used to live in Goffs Park Road. Brian Bason (former Chelsea player) used to live in Southgate. Marvin Hinton (former Chelsea player) lives in Crawley.
• Sally Gunnell, Gareth Southgate(actually went to my school)
• Saw Jamie Redknapp in Dixons and then Curry's!
• The Cure. I bumped into Simon Gallup who was/is the Bassist in The Cure in Marks and Sparks many years ago. He was very nice and signed the plastic bag I was carrying
• Adam Carr - voted Homosexual Author of The Year by readers of The Gay Times two yers running!
• Tough question. A few athletes and some one hit wonders. The people of Crawley make the celebrities (some of 'em anyway!).
• not that i know of, oh tell a lie the cure came from crawley and so did garath southgate all of which had the sense to get out of the town as did i.
• Robert Smith (The Cure) went to one of the local schools (st wilfreds) Gareth Southgate is from crawley
• Roger Bastable, local historian, not famous but known round the town by many.
• Alf Pegglar. Deceased. (trade unionist of the sixties. Taxi driver. Has road named after him "Pegglar Way"
• Actor Peter Vaughan
• erm...the cure is the best one I know and a mate audtioned for stars in their eyes.... Lots of wannabes though....
• i saw Rolph Harris turn on the X-mas lights a few years, back... bit of a disapointment really cos Frank Bruno was gonna do it but pulled out at the last minute
• John George Haigh (d Aug 1949) , the acid bath murderer, was Crawley's most famous resident. He used to drink in the George, where he chatted up at least one victim.
• The 80s one-hit wonder Big Fun came from Crawley. Lord Byron watched bear knuckle boxing in Copthorne.
• Barry Sheen
• Sqn Ldr Simon Meade (RED1 of The Red Arrows) comes from Crawley.
• The Cure.
• I've seen Jimmy Hill in Sainsburys in West Green!
• Chas 'n' Dave were once thrown out of The Charcoal Burner in Furnace Green because they were wearing jeans.
• Fintan Fogarty, Dave Reynolds, Darren Tilley, Trevor Wedd, Gregory O.R.P. Bowles, and of course Jim.
• Allan Minter - Boxer (A long time ago) Suzanne Dando - Athlete (A long time ago) Robert Smith (The Cure) Daly Thompson got married here. Louise Nerding "Louise - ex-Eternal" took and passed her driving test here, which incidentally is the most gruelling route I've ever encountered. Take it in Worthing. Ross Kemp aka Grant Mitchell and Frank Bruno and Jo Guest amongst others have put in appearances at the local nightclubs.
• Michael Alldis ‹ boxer Claude Duvall ‹ racing editor of the Sun Simon Milham ‹ racing editor of The Irish Post and Sporting Life Nick Buckfield - British pole vault record holder David Speedie ‹ played for Crawley Town John Byrne ‹ played for Crawley Town Raphael Meade ‹ played for Crawley Town John Maggs ‹ IS Mr. Crawley Town!
• Gareth Southgate
• Daley Thompson
• The Cure used to live here!
• Alan Minter
• Barry Sheene

Search Knowhere for something else:

Credits

Last updated: 2011-05-18