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Born Northwood 1982

Interviewed Prince William and Prince Harry before the 2007 concert at Wembley to Celebrate Princess Diana's 46 Birthday.

Presenter of Children's TV including many of the fundaising programmes for children.

Went to Haydon School in Northwood

 Born 1975 in Eastcote

Various TV roles including Holby City, Bad Girls and Grange Hill

Born Northwood 1942

Various TV and Films including Anna Karenina and Grange Hill  

Standing 7 feet tall and son of a Nigerian Diplomat Michael went to Brunel University in Uxbridge before going to University of the Pacific and then on to be picked for the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2003. Known as Kandiman.

1926 - 2001 Born Yiewsley

In 1968 he built the spacecraft for Stanley Kubrik's 2001 A Space Odyssey 

1934 -1999 Born Uxbridge

Responsible for the special effects on a large number of films including James Bond movies. He is credited as being the Magic Carpet Designer for the Thief of Baghdad. Won Oscars (as part of special effects team for Star Wars 1977 and Thunderball 1965)

Died Northwood 2005

Appeared in various films including Octopussy as the villain Lenkin.

Played Gollum in Lord of The Rings and King Kong in the film of the same name.

Born Ruislip 1964

Born Ruislip 1930 Died Windsor 1998

Appeared in several films (including the Red Beret with Alan Ladd) and featured in the Forsyte Saga where she played Helene Forsyte. Also starred in Howards Way.

Born Liverpool Liverpool 1919 - Died Northwood 1998

Famous for her characters in Round the Horn she also appeared in Carry On and a variety of other films.

Glamorous Star of "Dr Quinn Medicine Woman" was born and brought up in Hillingdon. She was recently interviewed live on the internet for Yahoo, which used these photographs.

What they said: Born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg in Hillingdon, England, to a doctor father and nurse mother, Seymour worked as a ballet dancer before making her film debut as a chorus girl in 1968's Oh! What A Lovely War.

She made her first big splash five years later as Bond girl Solitaire in Live and Let Die, and spent much of the '70s and '80s portraying uppercrust vamps in films and, especially, on TV.

Off-screen, Seymour played wife three times (including to manager David Flynn, with whom she had three children) before wedding Keach in 1993, the year Dr. Quinn launched.

Seymour and husband James Keach, who is a well-known director and the brother of actor Stacy Keach

beat Kazakhstan's Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov to become the Heavyweight Gold Medallist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He was  the first Briton to win in the maximum weight class since Ronald Rawson's knockout win in 1920 and the first British Boxing Gold Medallist since Chris Finnegan took the middleweight Gold in 1968. Audley has a strong link with Hillingdon.

He completed a 10,000-word thesis on amateur boxing for his Sports Science and Leisure Management degree at Brunel University.

He currently has a boxing club in nearby Northolt.

Well done Audley!

Strangely enough both of the British Gold Medallist boxers have a Hillingdon Link - see Chris Finnegan lower down

The ex Director General of the BBC. Greg Resigned after the Hutton inquiry criticised the BBC. This caused a huge outpouring of goodwill towards Greg from the BBC employees.

Greg grew up and went to School in Hillingdon. 

Former boss of LWT and  Pearson TV was born in Hayes and lived in Cerne Close until he was 9. The family then moved to Cedars Drive, Hillingdon.

Greg went to Yeading Primary and then to Hayes Grammar, now Rosedale College.

He was a reporter on a local paper - the Hillingdon Mirror which is now defunct.

Many thanks to Stewart Roney <stewart@thesweet.com> for the Chris Finnegan photo and for the updated info on Brian Connolly

Middleweight Boxing Champion, Olympic Gold Medallist,1968.  He beat Aleksei Kisselyov, (Soviet Union) in the Olympic final and now lives in Cowley. 

The Ring Magazine Fight of the Year 1972 involved Chris when he fought Bob Foster, unfortunately Chris was  knocked out in the 14th round. When you see the 1971 "Fight of the Year" was between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali and the 1973 FotY was between George Foreman and  Joe Frazier you can see the level that Chris reached in his professional career.

Queens Park Rangers football club
(DOB - 20/8/71, Hillingdon)
Lee was signed from Non League Chertsey Town in August 1995 for £67,500 after he impressed playing against QPR Reserves in a pre-season friendly when he scored a hat-trick. Prior to that Lee played for Yeading

The first Muslim contestant to win this title.

Controversy surrounds this as some Islamic groups have criticised the showing of naked flesh in public. Miss Kohistani wore a see through gown over her bathing costume.

100 metres Gold Medallist, World Record 1993 lived in Ruislip

9.87 seconds for the 100 metres 1993 (Stuttgart 15.08.93)
37.77 Great Britain 1993 (4 x 100 m relay)

1992 Olympic Champion:
Linford Christie (GBR): 9.96
4x200m 1:22.11 United Kingdom GBR Glasgow 3.3.91 (Christie, Braithwaite, Mafe, Regis)

TV and Radio Presenter Presenter including Making History and Crime Watch

Sue is An honours graduate in Psychology at Leicester University the university awarded her an honorary D.Litt in 1997 in recognition of her contribution to British broadcasting.

Sue's first novel On Dangerous Ground was published May 2006.

Making History is her weekly series on Radio 4 since 1997

Sue went to Glebe Primary School and Vyners.
She worked at the Petrol Station on Long Lane for a while.

Rolling Stones (Ex Rod Stewart and the Faces) from West Drayton

Here's a link to one of the many Rolling Stones sites

Famous Astrologer, lives in Uxbridge

Click on his picture to be taken to his web site http://www.russellgrant.com/

Claire Richards

from STEPS is a local girl. She went to Bishopshalt School in Uxbridge.

Actor - Lord Bernard Miles
(1907-1991) b. Uxbridge, Hillingdon,

Many films and TV appearances. For further info look at imdb.com 

Thanks to Ceri Morgan for this info

Comedy Actor - Co star of Will Hay

[George Thomas Moore-Marriott] (1885-1949) 
b. West Drayton
Reputed to have appeared in over 300 films. He is perhaps most famous for his role as a very  cantankerous, old man who often got the better of Will Hay. For further info look at imdb.com 

Actor
b. 6 August 1943 Hillingdon

Elvis Meets Nixon, Logan's Run, The Sundowners and many, many more films and TV shows.

Gave actress Hayley Mills her first screen kiss in the film In search of the Castaways. For further info look at imdb.com 

Actor
b. 21 February 1964 Hillingdon,

PC George Garfield The Bill plus several other TV roles. For further info look at imdb.com 

The Sweet (Wig Wam Bam, Ballroom Blitz, Little Willie) born Harefield then lived in Cowley

Link to his tribute page

Actor
 b. 20 July 1968 West Drayton,

The Madness of King George, Tomb Raider, Monty Pippin in Keen Eddie plus many, many others. For further info look at imdb.com 

Glenn Hoddle

Footballer and Football Manager

b. 27 October 1957, Hayes

b. 9 August 1940, Eastcote

b. November 1961
Ruislip

b. 1967 Hillingdon

b29 October 1954 Hillingdon

b. 2 July 1965, Hillingdon

No 1 Hit with "Have I the Right" (June 1964)

b. Hillingdon, 1943

b. Hillingdon 15 October 1972

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