- The Streets
Mike Skinner (born November 27, 1978), more commonly known by his stage name The Streets, is a rapper from Birmingham, England. - Tony Iommi
Frank Anthony "Tony" Iommi (born February 19 1948, in Aston, Birmingham, England) is a guitarist best known for his tenure in the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He is the only person to have remained in Black Sabbath throughout the band's entire lifespan. Currently Iommi, bandmate Geezer Butler and former Black Sabbath members Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice, are touring under the name Heaven and Hell. - Bill Ward
Bill Ward (born William Thomas Ward, May 5, 1948, Aston, Birmingham, England), is the drummer for the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. In addition to playing drums as an original founding member of the band, Ward sang lead vocals for two Black Sabbath songs; "It's Alright" (from "Technical Ecstasy"), and "Swinging The Chain" (from "Never Say Die!"). - Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne (born December 30, 1947) is a Grammy Award-winning English rock songwriter, singer, guitarist and record producer. Born in the Shard End area of Birmingham, England, he is best known for his involvement with the Electric Light Orchestra and the Traveling Wilburys. After disbanding ELO, Lynne became a much respected and much sought after record producer, … - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Justin Broadrick
Justin Broadrick (born 1969 in Birmingham, England) is a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to crossover elements of rock and industrial music. - Joan Armatrading
Joan Armatrading (born Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, 9 December 1950, in Basseterre, Saint Kitts) (Caribbean) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. - John Baskerville
John Baskerville was born in the village of Wolverley, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire and was a printer in Birmingham, England. He was a member of the Royal Society of Arts, and an associate of some of the members of the Lunar Society. He directed his punchcutter John Handy in the design of many typefaces of broadly similar appearance. His businesses included japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer. - Chris Wood
Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood (born June 24, 1944, in Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire - died July 12, 1983, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, West Midlands) was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason. Wood primarily played flute and saxophone, occasionally contributing keyboards and vocals. Wood was also a co-writer for many of Traffic's songs. - Murray Walker
Graeme Murray Walker, OBE (known as Murray Walker; born 10 October 1923, Hall Green, Birmingham, England) is a Formula 1 (F1) motorsport commentator. He was educated at Highgate School and Sandhurst, and for most of his career he worked for the BBC, but when it lost the contract for F1 coverage to the company ITV, Walker continued his commentating there. He is famous in the United Kingdom for his very distinctive enthusiastic commentary style. - Kay Parker
Kay Parker (born Kay Rebecca Taylor on August 28, 1944, in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom) is a pornographic actress, best known for her depictions of incest scenes in the "Taboo" series. She is member of the XRCO and the Adult Video News (an adult-industry publication) Hall of Fame. - Luke Moore
Luke Moore (born February 13, 1986 in Birmingham, West Midlands) is an English football player who currently plays for Aston Villa as a forward. - Peter Buckley
Peter Buckley (born 9 March, 1969 in Birmingham, England) is an English journeyman boxer in the Welterweight division. Although he currently fights at Welterweight division he has competed at a number of divisions either side. Buckley turned pro in October 1989, when he fought at the Colosseum, Stafford, West Midlands, England, only earning a draw with fellow debutant Brixham's Alan Baldwin despite knocking Baldwin down in the early rounds. - David Cox
Sir David Roxbee Cox (born 1924 in Birmingham) is an English statistician. He studied mathematics at St. John's College of the University of Cambridge and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in 1949. He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, and from 1950 to 1956 worked at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. - Michael Davis
Michael Davis (born August 1, 1961 in Birmingham, England) is a British film director and screenwriter. His films include the campy horror film "Monster Man" and the big-budget action film "Shoot 'em Up", which stars Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti. - Lisa Williams
Lisa Williams (born in Birmingham, England) is a self-described medium and clairvoyant starring in a new show on Lifetime called "Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead". She claims she can talk to the dead. The show is done in a reality show fashion, following her on a typical day as she communicates with the dead and follows Williams investigating haunted houses and other spirit-seeking activities. - Janet Parker
Janet Parker was a British medical photographer, and is the last person known to have died from smallpox. At the time of her death Parker worked in the University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, England, in a darkroom above a lab where research with live smallpox virus was being conducted. On August 11, 1978, Parker (who had received a smallpox vaccine twelve years prior) fell ill, complaining of a headache and muscular pains. - Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis, historical novelist, was born in Birmingham, England in 1949. Having taken a degree in English literature at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall), she became a civil servant. She left the civil service after 13 years, and when a romantic novel she had written was runner up for the 1985 "Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize", she decided to become a writer, writing at first romantic serials for the UK women's magazine "Woman's Realm". - Joseph Gillott
Joseph Gillott (October 11, 1799 - January 5, 1873) was an English pen-maker and patron of the arts. Gillott was born in Sheffield. For some time he was a working cutler there, but in 1821 he moved to Birmingham, where he found employment in the steel toy trade, the technical name for the manufacture of steel buckles, chains and light ornamental steel-work generally. About 1830 he turned his attention to the manufacture of steel pens by machinery, … - Alan Napier
Alan Napier (born Alan Napier-Clavering, January 7, 1903 in Birmingham, England, died August 8, 1988 in Santa Monica, California) was an English character actor. He is best known for playing Alfred in the 1960s live-action "Batman" television series. Napier was a cousin of Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister from 1937 to 1940 and the great-great grandson of author Charles Dickens. - Edgar Guest
Edgar Albert Guest (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People’s Poet. From England, Guest came with his family to the United States in 1891. After he began at the "Detroit Free Press" as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared December 11, 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. - Salma Yaqoob
Salma Yaqoob is the vice-chair of Respect – The Unity Coalition and a Birmingham City Councillor. She is also is the head of the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition and a spokesperson for Birmingham Central Mosque. - Adrian Lester
Adrian Lester (born August 14, 1968) is an English actor. - Anthony Daniels
Anthony (A.M.) Daniels (1949-) is an English writer and retired physician (prison doctor and psychiatrist), who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple. He has written extensively on culture, art, politics, education and medicine drawing upon his experience as a doctor and psychiatrist in Zimbabwe and Tanzania, and more recently at a prison and a public hospital in Birmingham, in central England. He has travelled in many countries in Africa, … - Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse (born June 21, 1940 in Birmingham, England) is a philosopher of science, working on the philosophy of the biology, and is well known for his work on the argument between creationism and evolutionary biology. He was born in England, took his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol (1962), his master's degree at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1964), and Ph.D. at the University of Bristol (1970). - Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. Born in Birmingham he had an entirely working class education and early career before beginning to write. His first published work was in 1903, the short story "The Mysterious Mummy" for Pearson's Weekly. - John Roebuck
John Roebuck (1718 - July 17, 1794) was an English inventor, who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution. He was born at Sheffield, where his father had a prosperous manufacturing business. After attending the grammar school at Sheffield and Dr Philip Doddridge's academy at Northampton, he studied medicine at Edinburgh, where he developed a taste for chemistry from the lectures of William Cullen and Joseph Black. - Lee Hendrie
Lee Hendrie (born May 18 1977 in Birmingham) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder. He is currently a free agent. - Hazel Court
Hazel Court (born February 10, 1926) is a British actress known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960's. Court was born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England. Her father was a notable cricketer. At the age of fourteen, she studied drama at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Alexander Theatre, also in Birmingham. At the age of sixteen she met the director Sir Anthony Asquith in London, … - Nic Harcourt
Nic Harcourt (b. 1957) is the Music Director for Santa Monica, California-based radio station KCRW. He was born in Birmingham, England and lived in Australia for many years before coming to the United States. Before KCRW, for 8 years he worked as News Director and then Music Director at the very well respected WDST in Woodstock, New York, home to New York's youngest DJ "Jake the Kid". - Thomas Attwood
Thomas Attwood (6 October 1783 - 9 March 1859), was a British economist and strong campaigner for electoral reform. He was born in Halesowen, and attended Wolverhampton Grammar School. Following years of hardship for his home city, he founded the Birmingham Political Union in 1830. This was a political organization campaigning for cities, and large towns such as Birmingham, to be directly represented in Parliament. - George Elkington
George Richards Elkington (October 17, 1801-September 22, 1865) was a manufacturer from Birmingham, England. He patented the first commercial electroplating process. Elkington was born in Birmingham, the son of a spectacle manufacturer. Apprenticed to his uncles' silver plating business in 1815, he became, on their death, sole proprietor of the business, but subsequently took his cousin, Henry Elkington, into partnership. - Alphonso Martin
Alphonso Martin aka 'Phonso' (born March 20, 1956, in Birmingham, England) was a percussionist and vocalist for the reggae group Steel Pulse. He joined Pulse in 1976, as a friend of David Hinds. He played percussion and backup vocals for fifteen years, until leaving the band in 1991 after the release of Victims to pursue alternative interests. He currently lives in Birmingham. - Rebekah Teasdale
Rebekah Teasdale (born 2 January 1980 in Birmingham, England) is an English model, D.J. and former journalist with the British men's magazine "Maxim". Rebekah is well known formost for her record-spinning in such clubs as London's The Cross but also for her topless and nude modelling in tabloid newspapers such as the "Daily Star" and "The Sun" as well as "Playboy" and "Perfect 10". - Steve Nisbett
Steve 'Grizzly' Nisbett (born March 15, 1948, in Nevis) was a drummer for the reggae group Steel Pulse from 1977 to 2001. Before joining Steel Pulse, he was a member of various soul bands, such as Penny Black, Rebel, and Roy Gee and the Stax Explosion. He joined Pulse in 1977 before their debut album Handsworth Revolution through their 1997 release Rage and Fury. Seen as the old man of the group he was the main drummer until 1998 when he gave up the honors to Conrad Kelly, … - Sadie Plant
Dr. Sadie Plant (b. 1964) is a British author and philosopher, native of Birmingham, England. She graduated from the University of Manchester with her Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1989, then taught at the University of Birmingham's Department of Cultural Studies (formerly the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies) before going on to found the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at Warwick University, where she was a faculty member. - William Small
William Small was born in Carmyllie, Forfarshire (now Angus), Scotland, the son of a Presbyterian minister, James Small and his wife Lillias Scott. He attended Marischal College, Aberdeen and received an MA in 1755. In 1758, he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, then one of Britain’s American colonies. Small is known for being Thomas Jefferson's professor at William and Mary, … - Michael Balcon
Sir Michael Elias Balcon was a British film producer, known for his work with the Ealing Studios. Born in Birmingham, Balcon was the youngest son and fourth of five children of Louis Balcon (c.1858–1946) and his wife, Laura Greenberg (c.1863–1934), Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who had met in England. Growing up in a respectable but impoverished setting, … - Laurie Baker
Laurence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker (March 2, 1917 - April 1, 2007) was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost reduction and low-cost housing. He went to India in 1945 in part as a missionary and since then lived and worked in India for over 50 years. He obtained Indian citizenship in 1989 and resided in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), Kerala. - Stefan Moore
Stefan Moore (born September 28, 1983 in Birmingham, England) is a football (soccer) player who currently plays for Queens Park Rangers as a forward.
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