List of residents of Wolverhampton
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This is a list of famous or notable people born in, or associated with, the city of Wolverhampton in England.
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- Frances Barber - Actress
- Nigel Bennett - actor
- Babylon Zoo - British electro rock band of the mid 1990s
- Richard Attwood - Winner, 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans. Former Formula One driver.
- Sir William Maddock Bayliss - physician.
- Norman Brook - Cabinet Secretary (1947–1962)
- Stephen Byers - former Cabinet Minister, Labour Party politician.
- Mark Davies - Footballer currently playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers.
- Edward Elgar - despite living in Worcester, he was an ardent Wolverhampton Wanderers fan and may have travelled to home games on his bicycle. Elgar bought two Wolverhampton-produced Royal Sunbeam bicycles in 1903, which he named Mr Phoebus, and visited the Sunbeam Works in Upper Villiers Street for 'tuning'.
- Dr Robert William Felkin (1853-1926) - LRCS (Edinburgh), MD (Marberg), FRSE, FRGS; medical missionary; ceremonial magician, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and founder of the Whare Ra lodge; author on Uganda and Central Africa; explorer and anthropologist.
- Button Gwinnett - signatory of the US Declaration of Independence.
- Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman - first Lord Speaker.
- Sir Jack Hayward, OBE - son of Wolverhampton factory owners, self-made millionaire, benefactor of many charities, fighter pilot in the Second World War, President of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
- Rachael Heyhoe-Flint - captain of the England Women's Cricket World Cup team 1973.
- Dave Hill - lead guitarist for the band Slade.
- Noddy Holder - born in Walsall, singer/rhythm guitarist for Slade.
- Dave Holland - jazz bassist.
- Eric Idle - actor and comedian.
- Charles Jones (1866-1959) - gardener and photographer.
- Jamelia - musician originally from Birmingham now living in Wolverhampton.
- Mervyn King - Governor of the Bank of England, educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School.
- Beverley Knight - soul singer.
- Sir Richard Leveson - Vice Admiral of the Fleet for Life, hero of the Battle of Cadiz, 1596.
- Denise Lewis - Olympic Gold Medallist born in West Bromwich and raised in Wolverhampton.
- Barbara "Babs" Lord - dancer in Pan's People.
- Hayley Price- Olympic gymnast in Los Angeles.
- Anita Lonsbrough - Olympic Gold Medallist in swimming.
- Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander - chairman of Mander Brothers, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East, donor of Wightwick Manor to the National Trust.
- Miles Mander - early Hollywood film actor, director and novelist.
- John Marston the founder of the Sunbeam company, in Upper Villiers Street
- Mil Millington - journalist and novelist.
- Jimmy Mullen - Spent his whole career from 1938 to 1959 playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. He also played for England 12 times.
- Alfred Noyes - poet.
- Brian Pendleton - rhythm guitarist with The Pretty Things in the sixties.
- Dora Penny - was the daughter of the Rector of Wolverhampton and a good friend of Edward Elgar and his family. She became immortalised as 'Dorabella' in the tenth of the Enigma Variations. Her autobiography 'Memories of a Variation' was penned under her married name of Mrs Richard Powell.
- Robert Plant - singer in Led Zeppelin, born in West Bromwich.
- Hugh Porter - Olympic cyclist, broadcaster and media personality.
- Lisa Potts - teacher and George Medal Holder.
- Enoch Powell - politician (Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West 1950 - 1974), poet, scholar and soldier.
- Oscar Gustave Rejlander - the "father of art photography".
- Carina Round - Singer/Songwriter
- Kevin Rowland - singer in Dexys Midnight Runners.
- Tessa Sanderson - gold medallist in the javelin throw, 1984 Olympic Games.
- Nigel Slater - food writer and journalist.
- Vikram Solanki - England and Worcestershire cricketer.
- Mark Speight - Television presenter
- Percy Stallard - racing cyclist, founder of the British League of Racing Cyclists and, as organiser of the 1942 Wolverhampton-Llangollen race, the father of massed-start cycle racing on public roads in Britain.
- Meera Syal - actress, novelist and comedian.
- Jack Taylor - referee, 1974 FIFA World Cup final.
- Maggie Teyte - soprano, creator of role of Melisande in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande.
- Thomas Turner - pioneer of sanitary disposal.
- Evelyn Underhill - mystic and Anglican writer.
- Sir Charles Pelham Villiers - member of Parliament for sixty-three years, holding the record for being the longest serving MP in Parliamentary history. A statue of him stands in West Park in Wolverhampton.
- Sir Charles Wheeler - sculptor and former president of the Royal Academy.
- Jonathan Wild - self-penned Chief Thieftaker General of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Bert Williams - Spent his whole career from 1945 to 1959 playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. He also played for England 24 times.
- Billy Wright - captain of England and Wolverhampton Wanderers and for a long period of time the most capped English football player.
- Billy Wright - the Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary leader.
- David Wright - former UK Ambassador to Japan.
- Percy M. Young - musicologist, writer and composer.
- Josef Stawinoga - local hermit
