- 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, … - Roy Wood
Roy Adrian Wood (sometimes erroneously thought to be born as Ulysses Adrian Wood, from an offhand interview comment in the 1960s) (born 8 November 1946 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England), is a songwriter, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. - Alan Smith
Alan Christopher Smith (born October 25, 1936 in Hall Green, Birmingham, Warwickshire) is a former England Test cricketer. He made his mark as a batsman, a bowler but primarily as a wicket-keeper. He succeeded M. J. K. Smith, to whom he was unrelated, as County Captain. He once achieved the very rare feat of taking a hat-trick as bowler in a first-class match in which he had been selected as a wicket-keeper. - Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born May 12, 1948 in Handsworth, Birmingham, England) is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to his solo career, was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Go and Blind Faith. - Ranking Roger
Ranking Roger (b. 21 February 1961), born Roger Charlery in Birmingham, is an English musician. He was a vocalist in the 1980s two-tone band, The Beat (known in the U.S. as The English Beat) and one of its successor bands, General Public. He leads a re-formed Beat line-up. Roger became a punk rock fan as a teenager and joined ska revival pioneers the Beat in the late 1970s. - 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. - Richard Tandy
Richard Tandy (born 26 March 1948, in Birmingham, England), is best known as the keyboard player in the rock band, Electric Light Orchestra ("ELO"). His palette of keyboards (including Mini Moog, clavinet, mellotron and piano) was an important ingredient in the group's sound, for example on the albums "A New World Record", "Out of the Blue", "Discovery" and "Time". A former pupil of Moseley School, where he first met future bandmate Bev Bevan, … - Dave Walker
David Walker was born on January 25, 1945 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He shortened his name to Dave Walker before starting his career. He became part of several bands, notably Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac. - Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates in Moseley, West Midlands, England, June 8, 1962) is the keyboardist for Duran Duran. Rhodes and singer Simon Le Bon are the only members to have been with the band throughout its 27-year professional career (beginning in 1980). Furthermore, Rhodes is the only member that has been with the band since its creation in 1978. He has also released albums with Arcadia in 1985 (a Duran Duran side-project), … - Carl Wayne
Carl Wayne (August 18, 1943 - August 31, 2004), real name Colin David Tooley, singer and actor, was best remembered as the lead vocalist of Birmingham rock group The Move during the 1960s. - Nick Mason
Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. He has been the only consistent member of the band since its formation. He also competes in auto racing, e.g., the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was born in Birmingham but brought up in Hampstead, London (many online biographies mistakenly cite the street address, … - Denny Laine
Denny Laine (born Brian Hines, on 29 October 1944, in Birmingham) is an English songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his roles as former guitarist and lead singer of The Moody Blues and, later, co-founder (along with Paul McCartney) of Wings. - Carl Chinn
Professor Carl Stephen Alfred Chinn MBE (born 6 September, 1956) is a historian, writer, radio presenter, magazine editor, newspaper columnist, media personality, local celebrity, and famous Brummie, whose working life has been devoted to the study and popularisation of the city of Birmingham in England. - Geoff Nicholls
Geoff Nicholls is a musician and keyboardist, who is best known as the longtime sideman for the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Nicholls also played in the NWOBHM band Quartz before joining Black Sabbath. He was born on 28 February 19?? in Birmingham, England. Nicholls was originally brought in as a second guitarist when Black Sabbath doubted whether they would even continue under that name. Nichols then switched to bass when Geezer Butler left briefly, … - David Hinds
David Hinds (born 15 June 1956, Birmingham, England) is the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for the Grammy Award winning reggae band, Steel Pulse. - J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon) from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English language and literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a devout Roman Catholic. - Johnnie Walker
Johnnie Walker MBE (born Peter Dingley, 30 March 1945 in Birmingham, England) is a British radio disc jockey. He was educated at Solihull School. Walker's outlook is slightly anti-establishment, often claiming "nobody rebels anymore". He is moderately conservative and often criticises attitudes that he perceives as pedantry or political correctness. On February 27, 2006, he announced his departure from the BBC Radio 2 drive time slot he had occupied for several years. - Isaiah Osbourne
Isaiah Osbourne (born 15 November 1987 in Birmingham, England) is an English professional footballer who currently plays in midfield for Aston Villa, and is a former England Under-16 international. He attended Kingsbury School and Sports college (Kingsbury Road, Erdington) from 1999 until 2004. Tall, Osbourne has been compared to former Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira, who is his role model. - Stephen Duffy
Stephen Anthony James Duffy (born May 30, 1960 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England) is a British songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist. He has recorded as a solo act under several different names, and is the lead singer for the group The Lilac Time. He has also co-written many songs with Robbie Williams, and Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies. Names he has used, both as a member of a group and solo, … - Jasper Carrott
Jasper Carrott OBE (born Robert Davis, March 14 1945) is an English comedian (declaring himself "world famous in Birmingham"). - Willard Wigan
Willard Wigan (born 1957) is an internationally known sculptor from Wolverhampton, England. He is the creator of the world's smallest sculptures, often taking months to complete one, working between heartbeats to avoid hand tremors. Wigan uses a tiny surgical blade to carve his microscopic figures out of rice, and fragments of grains of sand and sugar, which are then mounted on pinheads. - Muff Winwood
Muff Winwood (born Mervyn Winwood, 15 June 1943, Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire) is an English songwriter and record producer, and the brother of Steve Winwood. Both were formerly members of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s, in which Muff played bass guitar. He moved into the recording industry with a position as A&R man at Island Records. He was there until 1978, when he became an executive at Sony Records. - Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958, Cole's Hill, Birmingham, England) is a British Rastafarian writer and dub poet, and is well known in contemporary English literature. - 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. - Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton (September 3, 1728 - 18 August 1809) was an English manufacturer and engineer. Boulton was born in Birmingham, England where his father, Matthew Boulton the elder, was a "toymaker" (a manufacturer of small metal articles of various kinds). In 1749 he became a partner in his father's business (and the general manager), and in 1755 the Boultons acquired Sarehole Mill, which they used for rolling sheet metal. - Carl Palmer
Carl Palmer (born Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer, on March 20, 1950, in Handsworth, Birmingham) is an English drummer and percussionist. He is often credited as one of the most respected and influential Rock drummers of all time. Palmer is a veteran of a number of British bands, including The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Asia. He has also contributed to works by Mike Oldfield. - Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime. - Steve Gibbons
Steve Gibbons formed The Steve Gibbons Band a musical band, after he left the group known as Idle Race. The Steve Gibbons Band's releases include such hit singles as "Tulane", and "Eddy Vortex". The former track reached number 12 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977."Down in the bunker"was a major hit in Thessaloniki and one of the all time classic bar songs ever in "Plymouth" rock bar. - Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones was an English artist and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and largely responsible for bringing the Pre-Raphaelites into the mainstream of the British art world, while at the same time executing some of the most exquisite and beautiful artwork of the time. Burne-Jones was born in Birmingham, the son of a frame-maker at Bennetts Hill, where a blue plaque commemorates his birth. - Tony Hancock
Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 - 24 June 1968) was a major figure in British television and radio comedy in the 1950s and 1960s, known as Tony Hancock. - 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. - Nigel Mansell
Nigel Ernest James Mansell OBE (born August 8, 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire) is a British racing driver from England who won world championships in both Formula One (1992) and CART (1993). He is the only person in history to hold both titles simultaneously, and was the first person to win the CART title in his debut season. His career in Formula One spanned 15 seasons, with his final two full seasons of top-level racing being spent in the American CART series. - Sass Jordan
Sass Jordan (born December 23, 1960) is a Canadian, Juno Award winning, rock singer/songwriter who grew up in Montreal (which is considered her hometown). - Ian Dickson
Ian "Dicko" Dickson (born 28 March 1963 as Ian Ross Perrygrove in Birmingham, England) is a music industry and television personality in Australia. He is best known as a judge on the hit television show "Australian Idol". - 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. - Lee Child
Lee Child (born 1954, Coventry, England) is a British thriller writer currently living in New York City. His first novel, "Killing Floor", won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Each of Child's novels follows the adventures of a former American Military Policeman named Jack Reacher who is wandering the United States. - Enoch Powell
John Enoch Powell, MBE (June 16 1912 - February 8 1998) was a British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet. He was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. Controversial throughout his career, his tenure in senior office was brief. He held strong and distinctive views on issues such as race, national identity, immigration, monetary policy, … - John Wright
John Wright was a surgeon from Birmingham, England who invented a process of electroplating involving potassium cyanide. The process was patented in 1840 by Wright's associate George Richards Elkington. - 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 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).
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