- Jet Black
Jet Black (born Brian John Duffy; 26 August, 1938 in Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom) is an English drummer and one of the founder members of punk rock / new wave band The Stranglers. He is of Irish ancestry and currently lives in Gloucestershire.
- Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Dame Maggie Smith, is a two-time Academy Award, and Emmy-winning British film, stage, and television actress.
- Helen Mirren
From the age of 13 when she played Caliban in a school production of "The Tempest," Helen Mirren knew she wanted to be an actress. Her Russian-born father and English mother may have encouraged her to be a teacher like her siblings, but Mirren's mind was set.
- Nigel Benn
Nigel Benn (born January 22, 1964) is an English former boxer who held world titles at both Middleweight and Super Middleweight. Benn was known as "The Dark Destroyer", a nickname that would, ironically, later come back to haunt him.
- Noel Edmonds
Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948 in Ilford, Essex) is a British television presenter, DJ and executive who made his name on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He is more recently known as the presenter of the television gameshow "Deal or No Deal". Edmonds has also worked closely with Richard L. Lewis, who has written and produced various programmes that Edmonds has worked on.
- Paul Ince
Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (born 21 October 1967 in Ilford, London) is a football player who won numerous honours with Manchester United and became the first black player to captain the England team. His career saw him play for seven English clubs and Italian side, Inter Milan. He is currently the manager of Milton Keynes Dons.
- Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves (born April 18, 1961) is an English actress best known for her work as Daphne Moon on "Frasier". Born in Ilford, Essex, England and growing up in East Grinstead, Leeves trained as a ballet dancer and worked as a model, until she made her first film appearance as a topless angel in "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life".
- Eva Hart
Eva Miriam Hart MBE (31 January, 1905-14 February, 1996) was one of the last remaining survivors of the RMS Titanic disaster of 1912.
- Bill Fraser
William Simpson "Bill" Fraser (b. 5 June 1908, Perth, Scotland - d. 9 September 1987) was a Scottish comedic and straight character actor on the British screen for many years. Bill Fraser was educated at Strathallan School and afterwards began his career in a bank but moved onto an acting career. Before World War II he ran the Connaught Theatre in Worthing. He was called up where he served in a Royal Air Force Special Liaison Unit, reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant.
- Ronald Hutton
Professor Ronald Hutton (born 1954) is Professor of History at the University of Bristol and is an occasional commentator on British television and radio on the history of paganism in the British Isles. Hutton attended Ilford County High School in the 1960s and 1970s, going on to win a scholarship to study history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Hutton's areas of specialisation include the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, …
- Raymond Baxter
Raymond Baxter, OBE, FRSA (25 January 1922 – 15 September 2006), was a British television presenter and writer, best known for being the first presenter of "Tomorrow's World" (1965–77).
- Tamzin Outhwaite
Tamzin Outhwaite (born on November 5, 1970) is an English actress best known for playing Melanie Owen in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders".
- Jenny Powell
Jenny Powell (born 8 April 1968 in Ilford, London), is a British television presenter. She attended Woodford County High School for Girls in Woodford Green. Powell began her career in 1986 presenting the BBC2 music programme "No Limits". Later, she became the hostess on ITV's version of "Wheel of Fortune" (produced by Scottish Television). More recently, she has presented "Soap Fever", "Live Talk", …
- Ian Ridpath
Ian (William) Ridpath (born 1 May 1947, Ilford, Essex) is a British science writer and broadcaster made famous for his investigation and explanation of the Rendlesham Forest Incident of December 1980. He attended Beal Grammar School in Ilford where he wrote astronomy articles for the school magazine. He now lives in Brentford, Middlesex. He is editor of the "Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy" and "Norton's Star Atlas", …
- John Lyall
John Angus Lyall (born 24 February 1940 in Ilford, Essex, died 18 April 2006) was an English footballer and manager of Scottish descent. Lyall was a useful defender for West Ham United until he suffered a knee injury at the age of 23 and never played again. He rose through the coaching ranks at Upton Park to succeed Ron Greenwood as team manager, managing West Ham for 15 years (1974-1989). In 1975, at the end of his first season as manager, …
- Kevin Maher
Kevin Maher (born October 17, 1976 in Ilford, London) a footballer who is the current captain of Southend United. Though born in London, he is eligible to play for the Republic of Ireland. Maher is a tough central midfielder. He began his career as a trainee at Tottenham Hotspur, but was released without ever playing for the first team. He joined Southend in 1998, and is the team's longest-serving player.
- Ian Hendon
Ian Hendon (born December 5, 1971 in Ilford) is an English professional footballer, currently captain of Barnet F.C. A defender, primarily at right-back but sometimes in the centre or in midfield, he began his career with Tottenham Hotspur, winning the FA Youth Cup in 1990. He hade his first-team debut in 1989, and made seven appearances for the club over the next four years, also representing England Under-21 seven times.
- Georgina Hale
Georgina Hale (born 4 August 1943) is an English actress who has appeared in many films and television programmes. Georgina Hale was born in Ilford, Essex in 1943. She made her first TV appearance in "The Wednesday Play" in 1966. Her first major television role was as Lili in "The Strauss Family" in 1972. Hale appeared in a 1975 episode of "Upstairs, Downstairs" called "An Old Flame".
- Bramwell Tovey
Bramwell Tovey joined the VSO as Music Director in September 2000. Since September 2002 he has also been Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. From 1989 to 2001 he was Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Symphony where he established the WSO's New Music Festival as one of the premiere new music events in North America.
- Laurence Baxter
Laurence Alan Baxter (28 February 1954, London - 8 November 1996, Long Island) was professor of statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
- Sidney Bernstein Baron Bernstein
Sidney Lewis Bernstein, Baron Bernstein (1899-1993) was one of Britain's first television "barons", the least flamboyant, but probably the most enduringly influential, of the show-business entrepreneurs who won the first independent commercial television franchises in the 1950s. As founding chairman of the London-based Granada Group, and later, as chairman of its famous subsidiary, the Granada Television Network Ltd., …
- Norman Lloyd Johnson
Norman Lloyd Johnson (9 January, 1917, Ilford, Essex, England – 18 November, 2004, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) was a professor of statistics and author or editor of several standard reference works. "Education": Ilford County High School, University College London (B.Sc. in Mathematics 1936, B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Statistics 1937 and 1938).
- Clive Bourne
Sir Clive Bourne (27 September, 1942, Stoke Newington, London - 10 January, 2007, Nevis, West Indies) was a British businessman and philanthropist, particularly known for his work on city academies.
- George Parris
George Parris (born September 11 1964 in Ilford, Essex) is an English former professional footballer. Parris joined East London club West Ham United as an apprentice in July 1981, after playing schoolboy football with Redbridge, London and England. He signed as a pro the following year, and made his First Division debut in the final game of the 1984-85 season, a home game against Liverpool on May 20 1985. Parris went on to make 290 league and cup appearances for West Ham, …
- Martin Robinson
Martin Robinson (born 17th July 1957 in Ilford) was an English professional footballer who scored over 100 league goals in a career spanning over 15 years. Starting his career as an apprentice with Tottenham Hotspur in 1975, he made just 6 appearances for the London club, scoring twice in 3 seasons at White Hart Lane. He made a name for himself as a striker when moving across London to Charlton Athletic where he managed 58 goals in 228 games.
- Mike Flanagan
Michael "Mike" Flanagan (born Ilford, Essex, November 9 1952) is an English former professional footballer and manager. He most recently worked as assistant manager of Margate, a post he left in July 2007. Flanagan played for Charlton Athletic (where he formed a successful partnership with Derek Hales, although the pair were once sent off in an FA Cup tie for fighting with each other) and QPR as a prolific centre-forward. He was capped three times by England 'B', …
- Judy Riley
Judy Riley was a 1970s English stage actress in London. She was born and brought up in Ilford.
- Karan Chagger
Hi i'm Karan/Kaz/Sxc Beast/Dave/Mr Shagger. I live in the ghetto we call Ilford!Yes yes i knooo but wa can u do??all the asians have 2 be dumped sumwere. Prom Piczz.
- Joanne Chapman
Hey I'm Jo! I'm loud and in your face and if you don't like those qualities then you can leave now!
- Abdul
Just your average guy.
- Faisal
ermm..im 5ft25 and wear glasses..so im basically short for a 15 year old lol.. im friendly and get along with everyone really..lol.
- Carl Edwards
wellllll basically my names carl and im 15. i live in ilford and go ilford county im in yr 10 and got soooo much work but i dnt do it neway lol. my bdays da 28th september and im bout 5 ft 11. i luv goin out wiv m8s and jus hangin bout wiv dem well neways i dno wot else 2 rite so ill leave it dere 4 now and put stuff on ere l8r :D.
- Lauren
- My name is Lauren Paula Darwin - I'm no longer a student which is rubbish - I'm a Jew - I live with my parents in Ilford - People in Ilford like to stab other people in Ilford - I want a tortoise - I like stars, cheese and the colour blue - I try to be a good person, but I'm not always successful - I think my mum is the funniest person ever - I like reading erotic fiction to my ex-housemates in a yorkshire accent.
- Sam Walsh
Hiya, Im sam and heres my universe in a nutshell ( sorry Hawkins, with my top ten things that i love.
- Zareena
My name is Zareena im goin to wanstead high skool im 11 years old n i love shoppin wit my friends n family n my fav colours r pink n baby blue n lilac.
- Stefan Schmid
hmm always difficult to describe yourself but here goes moved to chelmsford in december 06 and during my time here have met some quality people which means there are gonna be lots of fun times at college. startin boswells college which will be a good laugh.
- Ed
Im bout 5'10 got dark red hair brown eyes,im quartre chinese and quartre welsh and half english bit of a strange mix! lol I am vbery proud of my heritage family is important to me!, I play loads of rugby and do lots of weights and takes lots of protein shakes lol so im a pretty big boy. Im a well deressed guy think i got a gd stlye and look good when i go out in the evenings but i dont really takle pride in my apperance at home. lol.
- John
i LOVE the trips to Brighton, would enjoy life as a pirate and will be attending the London College of Fashion in September.
- Hannah Sexton
Hey im Hannah, Im a down to earth kind a girl, i enjoy the simple things to life and try not to take things for granted. I like a variety of music and always like to think of myself as open minded. My life at the moment is busy as i work alot. i love my job and would like to do it in the future however this has meant that my friends havent seen me out so often. My friends mean the world to me and without them i dont know what i would do.
- Ben Potts
Ben Potts.