- Lee Camp
Lee Michael John Camp (born August 22, 1984 in Derby, England) is a goalkeeper for Derby County who also plays for the England Under 21 side. He made his first appearance with Derby during the 2002-03 season, and joined Burton Albion on loan in January 2003. At the end of the same season, he went to QPR for the last few games also on loan, where he helped the club reach promotion to the old Division One. During the 2004-05 season Lee became a local hero, …
- White Town
White Town is a techno-pop act from the United Kingdom, and is the work of one man, Jyoti Mishra. Mishra was born in Rourkela, India, on July 30, 1966, and has lived in England since the age of three. White Town is often regarded as a one-hit wonder for its 1997 song "Your Woman". Mishra, a straight edger and ex-Marxist, often incorporates political concerns in his songs veiled in terms of personal relationships (as in his only hit).
- Mark Hateley
Mark Wayne Hateley (born November 7 1961) was an English football (soccer) player who played as a centre-forward. He was capped 32 times for the English national team. Arguably Hateley's best days were at Rangers, where he scored both goals in a title-clinching 2-0 victory against Aberdeen on the final day of the 1990-91 season. He left Rangers in 1995, with family problems suspected to be the catalyst for the move.
- Joseph Wright Of Derby
Joseph Wright (September 3, 1734 - August 29, 1797), styled Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter - he has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the industrial revolution."
- Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent classic-liberal political theorist. Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. The lifelong bachelor contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, metaphysics, religion, politics, rhetoric, biology, sociology, and psychology.
- Geoff Hoon
Geoffrey William Hoon (born December 6 1953) is a British politician. He is Labour Member of Parliament for Ashfield, and Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister.
- Terry Lloyd
Terence Ellis Lloyd (November 21, 1952 - March 22, 2003) was a British television journalist well-known for his reporting from the Middle East. He was killed by U.S. troops in Iraq, while he was covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN. An inquest jury in the United Kingdom before Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker returned a verdict of unlawful killing on 13 October, 2006 following an eight-day hearing.
- Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003) was an English actor.
- Mark Stallard
Mark Stallard is an English footballer who currently plays for English League Two club Lincoln. He is a striker. Stallard began his career at his hometown club Derby County, turning professional in 1991. He made 19 league starts for the club, and spent short periods on loan at Fulham and Bradford City before making his spell at Bradford permanent in January 1996, signing for £110,000.
- Steve Holland
Steve Holland (born Derby, United Kingdom, 1969) is a football coach and is currently the First-Team Coach of Crewe Alexandra, due share management duties with Technical Director Dario Gradi as of July 1, 2007.
- Tony Hateley
Tony Hateley (born 13 June 1941 in Derby) is a former footballer who played for numerous English clubs as a striker. He is also the father of the footballer Mark Hateley. Hateley started his career with Notts County, where he first established himself as a prolific goalscorer, especially through his heading ability, and scored 77 league goals in 131 matches. The club won promotion to the Third Division in 1960-61, …
- Peter Ward
Peter Ward is a retired footballer, whose most successful times were with Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.. He mostly played as a forward. He now lives in the United States, but can still be seen at Brighton games and events when he visits the UK. The photograph in this article shows him (on the left) with Norman Cook (also known as Fatboy Slim) at a demonstration demanding that planning permission be awarded for a new stadium for the club at Falmer.
- Rufus Brevett
Rufus Brevett (born 24 September 1969 in Derby) is an English former professional football player who played as a defender. He has recently retired from professional football, last playing for Oxford United, and has joined Swindon Town as Sporting Director.
- Ronald Binge
Ronald Binge (15 July, 1910, Derby - 6 September, 1979, Ringwood, Hampshire) was a British composer and arranger of light music.
- Lianna Fowler
Lianna Fowler is an English fashion model from Derby and the winner of Cycle 2 of Britain's Next Top Model in 2006. The prizes she got were a modelling contract with Europe's no.1 modeling agency Models1. (The elite agencies in London are considered to be Models 1, Storm, Select, Premier and ICM) There were some famous faces signed withe Models 1 such as Twiggy and Lisa Bucther.
- Chris Beardsley
Christopher Kelan "Chris" Beardsley (born February 28 1984 in Derby, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for York City.
- Sir Francis Fox
Sir Francis Fox (1844 - 1927) was an English civil engineer, who was responsible for the bridges over the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi and Sydney Harbour, the Mersey Railway Tunnel and the Liverpool Overhead Railway, and extending the London Underground.
- Jack Robinson
John William Robinson, also referred to as Jack Robinson was a professional footballer who played for, among others Derby County, Southampton and England. Robinson was noted, during his playing career, for his reliability and was, according to author Francis Hodgson, among the first goalkeepers to dive full length to make saves.
- Andy White
Andy White (born November 6 1981 in Derby, England) is an English footballer. He is 6 foot 4 inches and weighs 14 stone. He played his first football at Hucknall Town, before being signed by Stuart Watkiss at Mansfield Town. He was loaned out to various clubs including Boston United, Crewe Alexandra, Kidderminster Harriers and Burton Albion. He was released, by the then manager, Keith Curle and then joined Championship side Crewe Alexandra.
- Nick Wright
Nick Wright (born October 15, 1975 in Derby) is an English former professional footballer who played for Derby County, Carlisle United and Watford before his career was cut short by injury. Wright, who played as a forward, is best remembered for scoring an overhead kick in the 1999 First Division Playoff final, helping secure Watford's promotion to the Premier League.
- Dan Martin
Dan Martin (born 1986-09-27 in Derby) is an English football player currently playing for Football League Two side Mansfield Town.
- Max Sciandri
Maximilian Sciandri (born February 15, 1967 in Derby) is a retired British road bicycle cyclist from Italian descent. He won the bronze medal in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a professional rider from 1989 to 2004.
- James Dobb
James 'Jamie' Dobb (born Derby, 1972), is a former British motocross racer. Amongst his achievements, he was crowned 125cc (now MX2) World Motocross Champion in 2001, and was a top rider in the AMA motocross and supercross series during the mid 1990s. Born into a motocross family, Dobb excelled at youth level, winning a host of domestic and European youth motocross titles. He turned professional in 1987, aged 15, signing a contract with the factory Cagiva team, …
- Francis Green
Francis James Green (born April 23 1980 in Derby, England) is a professional footballer who plays for Macclesfield Town. He is 5'09" and weighs 11 stone. Francis Green began his career at Ilkeston Town, before going to Peterborough United. He made over 100 appearances for "the Posh" and scored a total of 14 goals, before being tracked by Lincoln's boss Keith Alexander and move to Lincoln City in 2003 and left the club in 2006 to join Boston United, …
- Martin Bullock
Martin John Bullock is an English football midfielder who currently plays for Wycombe Wanderers. Bullock began his career with English non-league club Eastwood Town in 1992. He turned professional the following year after a £15,000 move to Barnsley. He remained at Oakwell for eight years, making almost 200 appearances for the Tykes. In 2001 he joined Steve McMahon's Blackpool on a free transfer. He went on to make 153 appearances for the Tangerines in four years, …
- Joseph Booth
Joseph Booth was an English Baptist missionary in British Central Africa (present-day Malawi). He first came to Africa in 1892 along with his wife and daughters, and established the Zambezi Industrial Mission at Mitsidi, close to Blantyre and the Nyasa Industrial Mission. He recruited locals to plant coffee, and within a year had over 30,000 acres (120 km²) being worked. This was part of his desire to have Africa be for the native Africans instead of Europeans, …
- Kevin Lloyd
Kevin Reardon Lloyd (28 March 1949 - 2 May 1998) was a British actor, born in Derby, and trained at East 15 Acting School, London. Best known for his part of DC Alfred "Tosh" Lines in Thames Television's "The Bill". Prior to this he had already played the high profile role of nightclub owner, Don Watkins, in the soap opera "Coronation Street". He also made appearances in a number of other TV shows, including "Boon", "Minder", "Z-Cars", …
- Gavin Claxton
Gavin Claxton (born July 19th 1971, Derby, England) British screenwriter and film director of indie feature film comedy The All Together starring Martin Freeman and Danny Dyer. He was also producer, co-writer and performer - providing the voices of Freddie Mercury & Kurt Cobain - of the British television comedy series House of Rock.
- Richard J. Roberts
Richard John Roberts (born September 6, 1943, in Derby, England) is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. Roberts is the son of a motor mechanic and housewife. When he was 4, the family moved to Bath. In Bath, he attended the Beechen Cliff School.
- Aaron Webster
Aaron Webster (born 28 December 1980 in Derby) is an English footballer. Aaron played most of his football inside at sport centre called willows in derby city centre, Webster is a highly rated left back currently playing for Burton Albion F.C. in the Nationwide Conference. He has scored over 60 goals in 370 career appearances and was part of the squad that gained promotion to the Conference in the 2001-2002 season.
- Kelli Young
Kelli Young (born 7 April 1981, in Derby, England) is a member of British pop group, Liberty X. Liberty X was formed by the rejects from reality TV programme "Popstars". The winners formed Hear'Say, but Liberty X became much more popular. Young co-wrote some of Liberty X's singles (such as "Thinking It Over" and "Holding On For You"), as well as several of their album tracks. Kelli Young is also the name of a softcore porn star.
- Judith Hann
Judith Hann (born 8 September 1942) at Littleover, Derby, Derbyshire, England, is a freelance broadcaster and writer specialising in science, food and the environment. She attended Parkfield Cedars School and graduated from Durham University with a BSc Degree in Zoology. She presented BBC's "Tomorrow's World" on BBC1 between 1974 and 1994. She has since made guest appearances on various TV shows, and has done some TV commercials.
- Constance Spry
Constance Spry (December 5 1886 - January 3 1960) was a famous British florist and author in the mid-20th century. She has been described as "the Martha Stewart of mid-century Britain." Constance Spry was born in Derby in 1886, as the eldest child and only daughter of George Fletcher and his wife Henrietta Maria Fletcher. After studying hygiene, physiology and district nursing in Ireland, …
- Jermaine Palmer
Jermaine Ashley Clifton Palmer (born August 28 1986 in Derby, England) is an English footballer.
- Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson (born October 2 1980 in Derby, England) is an English footballer, currently playing for Conference National side Torquay United. Nicholson began his career as a trainee with Sheffield Wednesday, turning professional in August 1998. His first team debut came on August 28, 2000 when he replaced Andy Hinchcliffe as a first-half substitute in Wednesday's 1-1 draw at home to Blackburn Rovers.
- Deborah Bull
Deborah Bull CBE (born March 22, 1963) is an English dancer, writer, and broadcaster. Born in Derby, Bull grew up in Kent and Lincolnshire and was educated at the Royal Ballet School. A ballerina winning the Prix de Lausanne 1980 and a member of the Royal Ballet from 1981 to 2001, becoming Principal Dancer in 1992. Early in 2002, Bull was engaged as the Creative Director developing the ROH2 programme at the Royal Opera House.
- W. J. Coffee
William John Coffee (1774-1846) was an internationally renowned English artist and sculptor who worked in porcelain, plaster, and terra cotta. He also worked in oil paint, although this was not the medium for which he became famous. His early career was as a modeller for Duesbury at the china factory on Nottingham Road in Derby, England. The latter part of his life was spent in America.
- Duncan Lloyd
Duncan Lloyd is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for Newcastle-based band, Maxïmo Park. He was originally from Derby and attended Northumbria University at Newcastle. In his first year, Lloyd formed a student band with his friends which included Archis Tiku. Before the band's record deal, Duncan was a care worker. His birthday is the 19th February. Duncan sings backing vocals on the majority of Maxïmo Park's tracks.
- William de Wiveleslie Abney
William de Wiveleslie Abney FRS (July 24, 1843 - December 3, 1920) was an English astronomer, chemist, and photographer.
- Geoffrey Lane Baron Lane
Geoffrey Dawson Lane, Baron Lane AFC PC (17 July, 1918 - 22 August, 2005) was a British Judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1980 to 1992. The later part of his term was marred by the uncovering of a succession of miscarriages of justice. He will be remembered for his infamous comment, on turning down the first appeal by the Birmingham Six, …