Scarborough, North Yorkshire > Catalogs
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
Famous Scarborians: residents and ex-residents
- John Atkinson Grimshaw, artist
- Alan Ayckbourn, playwright
- Anne Brontë, writer
- Colin Challen, MP for Morley and Rothwell – born in Scarborough
- Liz Dawn, 'Vera Duckworth' in Coronation Street – has a holiday home in Scarborough
- Fred Feast, actor – formerly of Coronation Street (Fred Gee)
- Eric Fenby, 20th century composer and amanuensis of Frederick Delius
- Jonathan Greening, footballer with Championship side West Bromwich Albion
- Malcolm Hebden, 'Norris Cole' in Coronation Street
- Susan Hill, author
- Ben Kingsley, actor – born in Scarborough, 1943
- Charles Laughton, actor and director
- Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, painter and sculptor
- Bill Nicholson, manager of Tottenham Hotspur when they completed the Football League First Division and FA Cup double in 1960-61
- Wilfred Owen, World War I poet – convalesced in Scarborough
- Robert Palmer, singer
- Mark Richardson, musician in the rock band Feeder
- Joel Ross, one half of BBC Radio 1 duo JK and Joel
- Sir Jimmy Savile, television and radio personality
- The Sitwell family, literary circle
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