Arts and entertainment List of people from Leicester and Leicestershire

1 arts , entertainment

1.1 acting , film
1.2 broadcasting , journalism
1.3 music
1.4 painters
1.5 writing (except journalism)
1.6 others

arts , entertainment
acting , film

richard armitage (actor, north , south, robin hood, hobbit)
richard attenborough (actor, jurassic park; director, gandhi)
martin ballard (actor , broadcaster)
patrick barlow (actor, comedian , playwright)
lydia rose bewley (stage , movie actor, inbetweeners movie)
jeremy bulloch (actor, star wars)
graham chapman (comedian, monty python)
selina chilton (actress, doctors)
charlie clapham (actor, hollyoaks, kick-ass 2)
amanda drew (actress, eastenders)
betty driver (singer , actress, coronation street)
terri dwyer (actress, hollyoaks)
stephen frears (film director, dangerous liaisons)
rosemary harris (actress, spider-man film trilogy )
tom hopper (actor, merlin, doctor who)
colin hurley (shakespearean actor)
dominic keating (actor, star trek: enterprise)
alison king (actress, coronation street)
michael kitchen (actor, foyle s war)
mckenzie lee (pornography actress)
john leeson (actor, voice of k-9 in doctor , bungle in rainbow , narrator children s hospital radio series, space gypsy adventures)
barry letts (actor, television director, writer , producer)
bill maynard (actor, coronation street, heartbeat)
parminder nagra (actor, bend beckham, er)
david neilson (actor, coronation street)
andy nyman (actor)
kate o mara (actress, howards way)
john payne (canadian voice actor born in town , raised in melton mowbray, leicestershire moved vancouver, british columbia)
helen pearson (actress, hollyoaks)
josette simon (actress)
una stubbs (actress, till death part, sherlock)
rakhee thakrar (actress, eastenders)
kraig thornber (actor, rocky horror show, etc.)
mark wingett (actor, bill)

broadcasting , journalism

david attenborough (broadcaster , naturalist)
karl beattie (living tv presenter, haunted , haunted live)
biddy baxter (editor, blue peter)
manish bhasin (bbc sports presenter, football focus)
o.j. borg (radio , tv presenter)
martine croxall (tv newsreader, bbc)
sara dhada (the apprentice candidate, 2008)
julie etchingham (tv newsreader, sky news, itn)
derrick evans (tv fitness instructor, mr motivator)
martin gillingham (sports commentator , journalist)
clare hollingworth (foreign correspondent)
david icke (sports reporter, conspiracy theorist)
oliver kamm (times leader writer , columnist)
kevin myers (journalist, irish independent)
sir henry norman, 1st baronet (journalist , politician revealed truth dreyfus affair)
jon tickle (leicester university graduate, brainiac: science abuse presenter)
tony wadsworth (broadcaster, bbc)
gok wan (fashion stylist , presenter of how naked, channel 4)
arlo white (broadcaster, bbc)

music

aetherfx (jacob tugby, industrial electronic musician)
laurel aitken (singer, godfather of ska ; born in cuba, lived on st. mark s estate 1971–2005)
sam bailey (winner of x factor 2013)
frank benbini (drummer, fun lovin criminals)
blab happy (band)
black widow (band)
the bomb party (band)
grace burrows (english violinist , orchestra conductor)
felix buxton (half of basement jaxx)
cornershop (band)
crazyhead (band)
john deacon (bassist, queen)
the deep freeze mice (band)
diesel park west (band)
the displacements (band)
family (band)
gaye bykers on acid (band)
gemini (dj)
robert gotobed (drummer, wire)
davy graham (folk musician)
ric grech (violinist, bassist, writer, producer, member of blind faith, traffic)
h 2 o (band produced 2008 song s gonna be? )
kevin hewick (singer)
engelbert humperdinck (singer, release me, misty blue)
the hunters club (band)
john illsley (bassist, dire straits)
kasabian (band)
tony kaye (keyboard player, yes)
lisa lashes (dj)
jon lord (organist, deep purple)
paul martinez (bassist, guitarist, writer)
tom meighan (vocalist, kasabian)
mark morrison (singer, return of mack )
perfume (band)
sergio pizzorno (musician, kasabian)
po! (band)
prolapse (band)
kav (former happy mondays guitarist, solo artist, musician, co-launched uk festival getloaded in park)
scum pups (band)
showaddywaddy (band)
molly smitten-downes (2014 eurovision entrant)
dj ss (dj , producer)
stunt (band)
nancy whiskey folk singer famous freight train . lived in leicestershire 1958 , died in leicester in 2003.
yeah yeah noh (band)
the young knives (band)

painters

lemuel francis abbott (portrait artist)
duncan fegredo (comic book artist)
john flower (artist)

writing (except journalism)

lemuel abbott (clergyman , poet)
james allen (author)
elizabeth arnold (children s writer)
julian barnes (author)
david campton (playwright, actor)
thomas cooper (poet)
j. t. edson (author)
anne fine (author)
martin goodman (novelist, biographer , travel writer)
hal iggulden (author)
e. phillips oppenheim (prolific author, inventor of rogue male genre)
joe orton (playwright)
lynda page (author)
john barclay pick (journalist, writer, last valley)
bali rai (author)
c. p. snow (author)
nina stibbe (author)
sue townsend (author, adrian mole books)
colin wilson (author)


others

mary linwood (needlewoman)




^ richard armitage . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ lydia rose bewley . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ graham chapman . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ selina chilton . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ charlie clapham . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ betty driver . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ terri dwyer . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ dominic keating . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ alison king . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ michael kitchen . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ john leeson . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ barry letts . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ parminder nagra . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ andy nyman . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ kate o mara . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017. 
^ helen pearson . imdb. retrieved 20 april 2017.