Sunderland

Sunderland is an industrial city and port in the English metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear.

Famous people from Sunderland

• Kate Adie Formerly Chief News Reporter for the BBC
• The Venerable Bede (674–735)
• Gertrude Bell (1868 - 1926) Colonial administrator
• St Benedict Biscop (628?–690),
• George Black Film pioneer
• PC Keith Blakelock (1945-1985) Police officer
• James Bolam (1938–) Actor.
• Raich Carter (1914-1994) Footballer and Football Manager
• Jack Casey Boxer known as Cast Iron Casey
• Dr William Reid Clanny (1770–1850) Inventor and Physician
• Sir Tom Cowie Entrepreneuer and philanthropist
• Jack Crawford (1775–1831) Naval hero.
• Terry Deary (1946–) Horrible Histories author
• John Emery Celebrated 18th century comic actor
• Amy Emms World-famous Durham quilter
• Russell Enoch Actor (as William Russell) Most people would now know him better as Ted Sullivan, Rita's dead husband in Coronation Street
• Bryan Ferry (1945–) Musician
• Muriel Foster Great Elgar contralto
• The Futureheads - popular and distinctive indie-rock group
• The Golden Virgins
• Jimmy Hagan Footballer
• Sir William Halcrow, civil engineer
• Billy Hardy (1964–) Boxer, once Commonwealth featherweight champion.
• Thomas Elliott Harrison Railway engineer
• Major-General Sir Henry Havelock (1795 - 1857) was born in Bishopwearmouth (a statue, by William Behnes, in Mowbray Park, Sunderland, commemorates him, as does the one in Trafalgar Square)
• James Herriot (pen name of James Alfred Wight) (1916–1995) Veterinary surgeon and author
• Melanie Hill (1962–) Actress
• Sir George Burton Hunter Shipbuilder and innovator
• Ernie Johnson Jockey won 1969 Epsom Derby
• Ruth-Ann Boyle 1970 Singer of Olive
• Kenickie, a 1990s pop band
• John Lilburne 'Free-born John'. English civil war figure
• Ernie Lotinga Film & West End actor. One stage name was Dan Roe.
• Gibb McLaughlin (1884.– 1960) Actor, born George Gibb McLaughlin
• Civil engineer brothers Patrick Meik and Charles Meik
• Sir William Mills Inventor of the Mills Bomb
• Jimmy Montgomery Sunderland A.F.C. goalkeeper
• Christine Norden (1924–1988) Actress, born Mary Lydia Thornton
• Bob Paisley Football manager
• David Parfitt Oscar winning film producer, Shakespeare in Love
• Robert of Geneva Bishopwearmouth's Parish Priest and antipope as Clement VII, first antipope of the Great Schism .
• Denise Robertson Novelist and TV agony aunt
• Maurice Roëves (1937–). Actor
• The Shivvers
• Clarkson Stanfield Painter
• Dave Stewart (1952–) Musician (Eurythmics etc)
• Mary Stewart Best-selling author
• Joseph Swan (1828–1914) Inventor, developed the light bulb before Edison
• Tom Taylor Playwright and editor of Punch
• This Ain't Vegas
• Bobby Thompson Comedian - the 'Little Waster'
• The Toy Dolls Punk Rock Band formed in October 1979
• Graham Wallas Author and academic
• Bob Willis (1949–) Cricketer
• Frank Wilson (1859–1918) Premier of Western Australia