Ray Ashcroft - formerly in The Bill, Coronation St. & Emmerdale.
John Atkinson - Founder of the family-run department
store.
William Bachelor - Founder of the firm that brough soups
and tinned peas to most people's kitchens.
Keith Barron well known TV comedy actor.
2 sites for Sean
Bean. Star of TV's Sharpe and films including Troy, The
Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers and one about playing for Sheffield
United - When Saturday Comes. Sean
Bean Films/DVDs/etc
on
David
Bradley who played Billy Casper in the 1968 film Kes.
Also known as A Kestrel for a Knave.
Roy Clarke is from Sykehouse, Doncaster. He is the writer
of the TV series Last
of the Summer Wine which was filmed about 15 miles north of
Sheffield at Holmfirth, and of Open All Hours which was filmed in
Doncaster itself. Roy
Clarke Books/DVDs/etc
on
on
The late comedienne Marti Caine. Thomas, John & Skelton Cole - Founders of Cole
Brother store in 1839.
Actor Tom Ellis who has appeared in Nicholas Nickleby,
Nice Guy Eddie, Waking The Dead & Eastenders.
Comedian Bobby Knutt is also local to the area. Paul and Barry Elliot, better known as "The Chuckle
Brothers" come from Rotherham, having attended Spurley
Hey School in their youth. They can boast one of the longest running
National Children's TV series. Chuckle
Brothers DVDs/Gifts/etc
on Kids TV presenter Richard McCourt who is better
known as "Dick" is part of the "Dick & Dom In
Da Bungalow". Helen Sharman, the UK's first astronaut who went aboard
a Russian space mission in 1991.
Kelly Harrison, better known as Nikki Marshall formally on
Casualty, is from Doncaster.
Watchdog presenter Charlotte Hudson is from Hillsborough.
Radio presenters Dave Kilner (Magic AM). Tony Capstick
(Radio Sheffield).
Radio Four presenter and author Malcolm Stacey was born in
Town Fields, Doncaster.
Actor Donald Pleasance - many films including Halloween.
on
Paul
Shane - Rotherham born comedy actor, star of Hi De Hi, You
Rang M'Lord and Holby City.
on
Harry Brearley, the
inventor of "Rustless Steel" (later to be known as Stainless Steel).
Sir
Robert Hadfield - Steel manufacturer and discoverer of
alloy steels. Charles
Holliday - Designer of the Blue Riband Trophy, The Masters
Trophy and the Grand National Trophies.
"Lizzie Ward" Elephant employed by T W Ward Ltd in 1916 for
hauling.
Thomas
Edward & Albert Vickers - Armaments manufacturers during
the First World War.
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