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Anybody famous in your family?

-RubberKeys--RubberKeys-
edited March 2010 in Chit chat
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Question...Has anybody got anybody famous in your family?

I have and its Spectrum related!!...

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001381
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  • grey keygrey key
    edited March 2010
    What, The Devil, what relation to you is he ?

    I have a famous mother, The Queen...............
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited March 2010
    Charles Peace

    hes a bit dead these days tho
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peace
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  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited March 2010
    No celebrities in my family as such, but my dad is somewhat of a local legend in the region of Spain he's from. He made a couple of Spanish folk albums with one of his mates in the late 80s (unsigned, "released" independantly... in fact, I remember me and his mate's kids all sitting round putting the tape covers together ourselves). They were in the newspapers over there a few times, and even got invited onto a radio chat show on Radio Galega. :smile:
  • fogfog
    edited March 2010
    mel the bell wrote: »
    Charles Peace

    Charles Peace (14 May 1832 – 25 February 1879) was a notorious English burglar and murderer from Sheffield,

    errm ... right :|
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited March 2010
    My great uncle used to train regularly with Roger Banister, and only missed out on the Olympics because he could not afford to go. In those days you had to pay for yourselves. He was at Oxford's Iffley road running track when the four minute mile was broken. He came rushing home to my grand mother to tell them of the incredible feet he'd just seen, and they were like 'Yes thats nice dear', as they didn't really understand what an achievement it was. He continued to work and coach at that running track for the rest of his life. He is a legend known to many old athletes of Oxford.
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited March 2010
    fog wrote: »
    Charles Peace (14 May 1832 – 25 February 1879) was a notorious English burglar and murderer from Sheffield,

    errm ... right :|
    yeah and my great great great ish grandad or someat :P

    i saw bolsover mentioned on the wiki page too...my mums side are bolsovers
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited March 2010
    not really, a great-uncle was a speedway rider, and would've been well known to the racer goers, that's about it I think, oh and way back in the olden days a few country squire types, not quite landed gentry, no titles or anything.
  • madmekonmadmekon
    edited March 2010
    The only person I can think of is my mums uncle:

    Arthur Troop founder of the International Police Association
    http://ipa-iac.org/en/en_troop.htm
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  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited March 2010
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lytton
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited March 2010
    andrew_rollings wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lytton

    Is that your dad? :lol:
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  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited March 2010
    -RubberKeys- wrote: »
    I have and its Spectrum related!!...

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001381
    :razz:

    Huh? And there I was expecting "Advanced Mongy Lard Simulator" from that link ...
  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited March 2010
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    Is that your dad? :lol:

    Not unless I was born before 1873.
  • RalfRalf
    edited March 2010
    I have a Roman Catholic cardinal in my far family.

    No, he's not my father :)
  • zxbrunozxbruno
    edited March 2010
    Not really famous, but my kids did some work as child actors, and some of my ancestors were Portuguese Navigators, but not famous enough no appear in story books. I found about them when I started working on my family tree 4 years ago.

    Here's a TV ad one of my kids did for K-Mart:



    And here's another one. You can see both of my kids getting a haircut:



    Oh, there's someone else. My grandmother says the current President of Portugal is a distant cousin (she's been saying ever since I was a little kid and he was almost unknown) but I don't have the resources to find out.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2010
    Apparently my great great great uncle invented the potato.
    Every night is curry night!
  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited March 2010
    My great uncle - land speed record holder in 1926.
  • Dave FountainDave Fountain
    edited March 2010
    No, but I've repaired the lawn mowers of Bob Mortimer, Lord Sainsbury, Paul McCartnery and Donald Sinden. Does that count?
  • beanzbeanz
    edited March 2010
    Me when they find the bodies.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2010
    beanz wrote: »
    Me when they find the bodies.

    You're probably not lieing either you weirdo ;)
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  • grey keygrey key
    edited March 2010
    beanz wrote: »
    Me when they find the bodies.

    I know where you hid them, send me ?1 or I will tell............Texas whopper burgers are good though...................whoops sorry, forget about the ?1................
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • DarenDaren
    edited March 2010
    My niece plays Amy Barlow in Coronation street. Well she did up until last month, but I don't think her last scenes have been screened yet.
  • ToxieDoggToxieDogg
    edited March 2010
    My grandad's brother was married to the sister of Lloyd Bridges' wife, technically making Beau and Jeff Bridges distant relatives of mine :)
  • RoseCottonRoseCotton
    edited March 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Apparently my great great great uncle invented the potato.

    "That's a slightly bland veg, Vic, but well done."
  • grey keygrey key
    edited March 2010
    RoseCotton wrote: »
    "That's a slightly bland veg, Vic, but well done."

    Any relation of Dot Cotton perchance ?
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • AmfootAmfoot
    edited March 2010
    No one famous in my direct family, but my brother-in-law's family are well connected! His mother is the sister of Richard and David Attenborough, his dad is an equerry to the Queen and has been on telly a fair bit in past years, and his grand-parents co-founded Hodder & Stoughton publishers.

    My sister also appeared on BBC telly, which some of you may have seen years ago (it must have been early 1990s) - she was dressed in a Spot The Dog cstume and presented a big cheque from WH Smith to Dame Edna Everage for Red Nose Day (or some similar event). The funny thing was, when she read out the value of the cheque on live telly she got confused with the 6's and the 9's, as she was looking down at as she held it in front of her, so she read the 6's and 9's the wrong way around. Can't recall the exact total (although we've got it on video to embarrass her at family events) but if the value was ?1,960,000 she read it as ?1,690,000 and it sounded like she'd pocketed the difference!
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