Cringing Cult of Celebrity in Oxford, Oxfordshire*

Famous residents and ex-residents.

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Cringing Cult of Celebrity

• Bill Bailey once performed in an underground pub in Cornmarket Street!
• Inspector Morse. Lewis. All those women Morse supposedly dated ha ha.
• Thom Yorke, from Radiohead. I swear i see this depressing twat walking down the street fairly often. Always looks at you like you should know who he is, and even maybe give a shit!
• to call a national front activist a 'very intelligent and admirable person with lots of common sense' seems somewhat misguiding to me. common sense perhaps, not sure about the other 2 ... i hope his time never comes
• Er, Raymond Blanc? Thom Yorke can be sometimes witnessed perambulating.
• As an ex-Oxford Boys pupil (er, now the 'Oxford Community School'), thought I'd reel off a few famous past pupils. Some were part of the old High School in Oxford City; this relocated to Glanville Road and became Southfield Grammar School. Off the top of my head and in no specific order: T E Lawrence aka Lawrence of Arabia (family home was 2 Polstead Rd) Ronnie Barker (family home was in Oliver Rd, Cowley) Prof Heinz Woolf (remember the 'Great Egg Race' on BBC2?) Patrick Mower (has-been actor of the 70's and currently on Emmerdale - another Cowley lad!) Some bloke called Gary Parker who went to play for Notts Forest and Aston Villa - lives in Kidlington. There are a few others and I’ll update these when they come back to me so watch this space.
• Too many to even count. Rowan atkinson is a pretty frequent character around Oxford but is a surly git as well. Seen Richard branson a few times too

• Sir Roger Bannister, the man who ran the first sub 4 minute mile lives in North Oxford as does Colin Dexter the author, creator of 'Inspector Morse'
• I'm not sure famous, but the guy with the shark in the roof.
• Craig Raine, Ian McEwan, Chelsea Clinton.
• oh come on it's oxford... bloody millions of them!
• Johnny T: lisa stansfield's and japanese emperor's sister's first love, co-inventor of the real pan-galactic gargleblaster beverege, inventor of dirty dancing, the british john travolta(real life sat. night fever), lifetime de facto world break/hiphop dance champion since 1984 and the guy who arranged for karaoke to be introduced to th UK. jt also the reason bbc totp moved studios.
• Pretty much every politician you've ever heard of Richard Dawkins
• Phillip Pullman, Author of Northern Lights - lived and worked in Oxford, teaching briefly for two years at a School in Oxford.

• Phillip Pullman, Author of Northern Lights - lived and worked in Oxford, based some of the locations in his fantastic books in the City of Oxford, and taught briefly for two years at a School in Oxford.
• The 60p geezer! - this bloke who asks everyone he passes for 60p. WTF? Doesn't he know people have sussed him out yet?
• One famous nearly resident of Oxford is Wimbledon nearly man, tennis player Tim Henman (strictly, from the village of Weston-on-the-Green in North Oxon). But his dad Tony runs a firm of solicitors in Oxford city, also called Henmans.
• Supergrass, Radiohead, Bill Clinton and Pat Butcher from Eastenders (just outside of Oxford)
• Tom Penny, world famous international hero of a skateboarder
• Can't let you get away without mentioning TV's Neil King, or David Brewis of University Challenge fame. You can see Brewis on the Durham site, too, he's that famous. The cleverest (and most bigoted) men on the planet.
• Jimmy Saville was a student at Somerville College. Jeremy Paxman is from Oxford; his parents still run a Greasy Spoon cafe in St.Ebbe's.
• The Chuckle Brothers were born in Oxford, and only moved north when they were babies.
• Mr.Ian Anderson an ex student of Pembroke first stood as The National fronts Oxford Candidate in the mid 1970s. From a rich agricultural family he has for some time been Chairman and Leader of The National front.(Now called The National Democrats) A student in the 70s he was into Gratefuil Dead and sported long hair and a shaggy jumper.This was superceded by a blue suit and skinhead haircut in the more conservative 1980s-90s.He reamisn leader and is editor of the Parties newspaper.He is a very intelligent and admirable person with lots of common sense.His time may yet come Beware!
• Dr Ann McPherson - author of Diary of a Teenage Health Freak
• Joey Beachamp - the wettest 'man' ever to have left home (but went back again).
• Supergrass are from Oxford!
• Iain Pears, author of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost', Candia McWilliam, authoress of books with long words in them, PD James, thriller writer, Ruth Harris, similar.
• RADIOHEAD!!! all 5 of them are from Oxford.

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