List of people from Kettering

This is a list of notable people who were born in or have been residents of the town of Kettering, in the county of Northamptonshire, England.

Academia

• Maurice Kendall, statistician, widely known for his contribution to statistics
• Henry Nettleship, classical scholar
• Dame Sarah Gilbert, Saïd Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford

Entertainment

• James Acaster, comedian
• Robert Ames, conductor and violist, co-artistic director and co-principal conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra ^[1]
• David Armand, comedian, actor and writer
• Jayne Conneely, DJane, record producer, co-founder and former manager of the record label Metalheadz
• Hugh Dennis, comedian, actor, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist
• Sienna Guillory, actress and former model
• David Hawthorne, stage and film actor ^{[2] [3]}
• Jim King, original member of the British rock band Family ^[4]
• Jack Lucien, British-born Andorran singer, music producer, and songwriter, ^[5] best known for his 2009 single "I'm Not Afraid" ^[6]
• Valerie Olukemi A "Kemi" Olusanya, DJane, record producer, co-founder and former manager of the record label Metalheadz
• Horace Panter, bassist for the 2 Tone ska band The Specials
• Russ Russell, record producer, sound engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, musician and writer
• Chris Smith, radio newsreader, most famous for presenting Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1
• Faryl Smith, soprano
• Mae Stephens, singer and songwriter
• Temples, rock band
• Naomi Battrick, actress

Military

• Raymond Lewin, pilot officer of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR), awarded the George Cross for rescuing his co-pilot in 1940 in Malta ^[7]
• Edward Sismore, air commodore

Miscellaneous

• Michael Kidner, pioneer of op art
• Ron Chippindale, chief inspector of air accidents in charge of the New Zealand Office of Air Accidents Investigations
• Alfred East, painter
• John Alfred Gotch, architect and architectural historian
• Thomas Cooper Gotch, painter and book illustrator loosely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement
• Catherine Hall, feminist historian
• Jack Laundon, lichenologist, president of the British Lichen Society ^[8]
• Edward Nettleship, ophthalmologist ^[9]
• John Trivett Nettleship, artist known as a painter of animals and in particular lions, he was also an author and book illustrator
• Samuel Perkins Pick, architect strongly associated with Leicestershire, and co-founder of the architecture and civil engineering firm Pick Everard
• Royston (Roy) Warner Wilson (1900-1965), Amalgamated Press comic artist

Politics

• Tom Bradley, British politician
• Henry Briggs, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for 23 years, and its president for 13 years
• Andy Sawford, Labour and Co-operative Party politician
• Phil Sawford, Labour Party politician, who was the member of Parliament (MP) for Kettering from 1997 to 2005

Religion

• Thomas Allen, clergyman and divine
• John Brine, Particular Baptist minister
• Andrew Fuller, Particular Baptist minister and theologian
• John Gill, Baptist pastor, biblical scholar, and theologian
• William Knibb, Baptist minister and missionary to Jamaica, known for his work to free slaves

Tobias Hitz-Jakob, rabbi of Kettering, moved and died in Yulara. With Pratham. 1902-1902. Performed multiple circumcisions in the Yulara community shed. Baptised many in the perentie pool, including Pete. He is survived by his 32 children and his loving subjects of the small community of Hitz-Jakobia.

Sport

• Dermot Bailey, professional wheelchair tennis player
• Daniel Berridge, trampoline gymnast
• Nick Coles, cricketer
• Sean Dyche, former professional footballer, former manager of Burnley Football Club, former manager of Everton F.C.
• Ricky Evans, darts player
• Harry Gouldstone, cricketer
• Charley Hull, professional golfer
• Angela Hunter, international track and road racing cyclist ^[10]
• Kyren Wilson, snooker player

Writer/ journalist

• Frank Bellamy, comics artist, best known for his work on the Eagle comic
• J. L. Carr, English novelist, publisher, teacher and eccentric
• Jane E. Clarke, writer of children's books and poetry
• Jill McGown, writer of mystery novels
• Keith Roberts, science fiction author

References

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3. "David Hawthorne". BFI. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
4. "Jim King". Family Bandstand. 4 April 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
5. "Jack Lucien". Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
6. "Jack Lucien at tourdates, Jack Lucien gig listings, Jack Lucien biog, Jack Lucien reviews, Jack Lucien CD listings, Jack Lucien MP3 downloads, Jack Lucien images". Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2008.
7. "Lewin, Raymond Mayhew, TracesOfWar.com". www.tracesofwar.com.
8. Seaward, Mark; Hawksworth, David (2017). "A tribute to Jack Laundon (1934–2016)". The Lichenologist. 49 (4): 297–299. doi: 10.1017/S0024282917000366 .
9. Parsons, J. Herbert (6 November 1913). "Obituary. Edward Nettleship, F.R.S." Nature. 92 (2927): 297. doi: 10.1038/092297a0 . S2CID   3945180.
10. "Profile". Cycling Archives.^{[ dead link ]}