- Ed Balls
Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British politician, and Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for the West Yorkshire constituency of Normanton. Since June 2007 he has been Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.
- Robbie Williams
Robert "Robbie" Ian Williams (born 2 October 1984 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Barnsley in the Coca-Cola Championship. He plays at left-back. Williams came through the youth ranks with Barnsley, playing over fifty first-team games. He made his debut on 5 October 2002, against Brentford. On March 22, 2007, Williams joined Blackpool on loan until the end of the season.
- Hilary Benn
Hilary James Wedgwood Benn (November 26, 1953) is a British Labour politician, currently serving as the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and the Member of Parliament for the West Yorkshire constituency of Leeds Central. In October 2006 Benn announced he was running for the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, eventually coming fourth behind Harriet Harman, Alan Johnson and Jon Cruddas.
- Shahid Malik
Shahid Malik (born 24 November 1967) is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament. He is MP for the West Yorkshire constituency of Dewsbury. Along with fellow Labour MP Sadiq Khan, he is the first British-born Muslim to be elected to the House of Commons. In June 2007 he became the first Muslim to serve as a Minister in the British government.
- Philip Davies
Philip Andrew Davies (born 5 January 1972) is a British Conservative Party (UK) politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Shipley in West Yorkshire. Born in Doncaster, he was educated at the Old Swinford Hospital School, Stourbridge, and the University of Huddersfield where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in historical and political studies in 1993. He joined the Conservative Party in 1988. He became the manager of Marilyn Davies Bookmakers in 1990, …
- Titus Salt
Sir Titus Salt (20 September 1803 - 29 December 1876), born in Morley, was a manufacturer and benefactor in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. His father Daniel Salt was a fairly successful businessman and was able to send Titus to Heath Grammar School in nearby Halifax. He attended Batley Grammar School before starting work as a wool-stapler in Wakefield, where he lived on the manor farm in Crofton, …
- Alan Smith
Alan Smith (born 28 October 1980 in Rothwell, West Yorkshire) is an English professional football player,. He has played centre-forward for most of his career. He formerly played for Leeds United, and now plays for Manchester United.
- Harold Shipman
Harold Frederick Shipman (January 14, 1946-January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. He was better known, before his arrest, as Fred Shipman. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, without admitting or explaining his crimes.
- Colin Cramphorn
Colin Cramphorn, CBE, QPM, DL, FRSA (died 30 November 2006) was the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police from September 2002 to November 2006. Colin Cramphorn, born in 1956, was educated at Strodes Grammar School, Egham, before joining the Surrey Constabulary in 1975. In September 1981 he want as a Bramshill scholar to the Faculty of Law (as it then was), King's College London, to study for the LL.B., and successfully graduated in June 1984.
- Thomas Chippendale
Thomas Chippendale ("ca" June 5 1718 - November 1779) was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. He went to London in 1749 where, in 1754, he became the first cabinet-maker to publish a book of his designs, titled "The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director." Three editions were published, the first in 1754, followed by a virtual reprint in 1755, …
- Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (January 10, 1903 - May 20, 1975, christened Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth) was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century. Although not as renowned, she is generally considered as great a sculptor as her contemporary and friend Henry Moore. Hepworth was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, attended Wakefield Girls High School, and studied at the Leeds School of Art (where she met Moore) and the Royal College of Art.
- Tom Smith
Tom Smith (24 April 1886 - 27 February 1953) was a Labour Party politician in England. At the 1922 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the previously Liberal-held seat of Pontefract in West Yorkshire. He was re-elected at the At the 1923 election, but at the 1924 general election he lost his seat by 701 votes to the Conservative candidate Christopher Brooke. He was re-elected at the 1929 general election, …
- Jamie Langley
Jamie Langley (born 21 November 1983 in Normanton, West Yorkshire) is an English rugby league player. His position of choice is loose forward though he can also play in the second row for the Super League side Bradford Bulls in England. Langley also captained the England Academy team that famously defeated the Australian schoolboys side. In 2006 Jamie was awarded 3 club awards for his performances throughout the season, …
- John Simm
John Ronald Simm (born July 10, 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is an English actor and musician. He is best known for his role as DI Sam Tyler in the BBC detective drama "Life on Mars". He has also recently appeared as the latest incarnation of the Master in the long-running BBC science fiction series "Doctor Who".
- Braintax
Braintax is the recording name of Joseph Christie (born 1973), an influential British hip hop artist. Joe Christie has also recorded or appeared under the pseudonyms Brando Flux and Joey Brains. He hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, but currently lives in London. He is a co-founder and owner of Low Life Records, the longest running UK hip hop record label to consistently release records.
- Steve Baker
Steve Baker (born September 8, 1978 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire) is an English professional footballer who is a defender and currently plays for Gateshead. Baker has played for a number of clubs including Middlesbrough, Huddersfield Town, Darlington, Hartlepool and Scarborough and Arsenal F.C. Baker signed for Scarborough in 2001 and went on to make nearly 100 appearances for them but he was released by Scarborough at the end of the 2005-2006 season.
- Paddy Kenny
Patrick Kenny (born May 17, 1978 in Halifax, West Yorkshire) is an Irish football player, who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Sheffield United in the Coca Cola Championship.
- Mark Richardson
Mark Richardson (born 28 May 1970, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) is a British drummer, of the UK rock band, Feeder. He came in to help out after the death of Jon Lee, but had already been good friends with the band. Richardson played in Little Angels, with his most well known appearance with the band being on the 1993 "Jam" album; as well as drumming for b.l.o.w. and Skunk Anansie. Both of which, Feeder supported in their earlier days.
- Jane McDonald
Jane McDonald (born 4 April 1963 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire) is an English singer and television personality. She first became famous after appearing on the 1998 television series, "The Cruise".
- Melanie Brown
Melanie Janine Brown (born May 29, 1975 in Leeds) (aka Mel B) is an English pop singer and songwriter turned actress and television personality best known as one of the members of the girl band the Spice Girls, one of the most successful female groups of all time. She was given the nickname "Scary Spice" by the British media because of her outrageous, "in-your-face" attitude, 'loud' Leeds accent, throaty laugh, …
- Jamie Peacock
Jamie Peacock (born 14/12/1977 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is a professional rugby league player for the Leeds Rhinos. He plays as a prop. His correct name is james peacock.
- Chris Brandon
Christopher William Brandon (born April 7 1976 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is an English professional footballer currently playing for Huddersfield Town.
- Paul Hudson
Paul David Hudson is a weather presenter for BBC Yorkshire and BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, in the UK. He went to the Brontë Middle School (now being knocked down for housing) and Oakbank School in Keighley. He has a first-class degree in Geophysics and Planetary Physics from the University of Newcastle. He can be seen on both editions of the regional news programme Look North, from Leeds (serving North, …
- Paul Truswell
Paul Anthony Truswell (born 17 November 1955, Sheffield) is an openly gay Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. At the 1997 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Pudsey in West Yorkshire, and has retained the formerly Conservative-held seat in subsequent elections.
- Keith Hellawell
Keith Hellawell is a former British police officer, who was the New Labour government's drugs advisor and so called "drugs czar" from January 1998. He resigned from his position in July 2002 over the government's reclassification of cannabis from a Class B to a Class C substance. Differences in opinion with the government over strategy towards tackling drugs were common during his tenure. In the position he was paid £106,057 a year.
- Colin Challen
Colin Robert Challen (born 12 June 1953) is a British Labour politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Morley and Rothwell, in West Yorkshire. He was born in Scarborough, and educated at the Norton Secondary School in Stockton-on-Tees and the Malton Grammar School, before completing a philosophy degree at the University of Hull in 1983. In 1971, he was a supplier accountant for the Royal Air Force before becoming a postman in 1974.
- Louis Le Prince
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was an inventor who is generally recognized as the first person to record motion images on film. In October 1888, Le Prince filmed "Roundhay Garden Scene", which is thought to be the world's first successful attempt to record moving images, and hence the very first motion picture film. He followed this with a film of a "Leeds Bridge" street scene.
- John Godber
John Godber (born 1956) is an English playwright, known mainly for his innovative theatre and observational 'comedies with an edge'. He was born in Upton, West Yorkshire, trained as a teacher of drama, and became artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre Company in 1984. His plays have won numerous awards. The son of a miner, before venturing into plays, he was head of drama at Minsthorpe High School, …
- Matthew Lewis
Matthew David Lewis (born 27 June 1989) is an English actor, known for playing Neville Longbottom in the "Harry Potter" films.
- Delroy Facey
Delroy Michael Facey (born April 22, 1980 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England) is a British-Grenadian professional football player, currently playing for Gillingham. He plays as a centre forward.
- Peter Falconio
Peter Falconio was a British tourist who disappeared in the Australian outback in July 2001, whilst travelling with girlfriend Joanne Lees. Coming from Hepworth, Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, he was a graduate of Brighton University, and 28 years old at the time of the disappearance. Bradley John Murdoch was later convicted of the murder on December 13, 2005, although Falconio's body has never been found. The case attracted considerable public and legal attention.
- Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson, OBE (born December 12, 1948) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor.
- Harry Barnes
Harry Barnes (5 December 1870 - 12 October 1935) was an English Liberal Party politician. At the 1918 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the new constituency of Newcastle upon Tyne East, standing as a Coalition Liberal. At the 1922 election, he lost his seat to the Labour Party candidate Joseph Bell. After Bell's death in December 1922, Barnes contested the resulting by-election in January 1923, but lost to Labour's Arthur Henderson.
- David Peace
David Peace is a British author born in Ossett, West Yorkshire in 1967. His works include the "Red-Riding Quartet", "GB84" and "The Damned Utd". In 2003 David Peace was named as a Best of Young British Novelists by Granta. He now lives in Tokyo, Japan, with his family.
- Georgie Henley
Georgia Laura "Georgie" Henley (born July 9 1995) is an English author and child actress who played Lucy Pevensie in the "The Chronicles of Narnia" film series, for which she won the 2005 Phoenix Film Critics Award for "Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role - Female" in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". Henley is scheduled to reprise her Narnia role in the sequel, …
- Mike Riley
Michael Anthony Riley (born December 17, 1964) is an English football referee from West Yorkshire who oversees matches in both the Football League and the FA Premier League. Riley became a national Football League referee in 1994, having previously served five years on their assistant referees' list. He was later granted FIFA status in 1999 allowing him to officiate international fixtures.
- Linda McAvan
Linda McAvan (born 12th January 1962, Bradford, West Yorkshire) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party for Yorkshire and the Humber. She has been a member of the European Parliament since 1998, and was first elected in a by-election following the resignation of Norman West. Before being elected she worked for Barnsley Borough Council and was the European Officer for the Coalfields Community Campaign.
- Ricky Wilson
Ricky Wilson (born Charles Richard Wilson, 17 January 1978) is the lead singer of English band Kaiser Chiefs. Noted for his over the top fashion and intense "pogo" on stage while playing the cowbell and tambourne, Wilson will often jump into the crowd during a performance. Wilson, who was originally in a Rolling Stones tribute band has made a variety of television appearances including the BBC show "Never Mind the Buzzcocks"
- Chris Feather
Chris Feather born (12 July 1981) Keighley, West Yorkshire is an English rugby league player. He is currently with Bradford Bulls having signed for them from the Leeds Rhinos on 24th August 2006 for the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Seasons. His Position is Prop forward. He has also played for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats.
- Dougie Lampkin
Dougie Lampkin internationally renowned motorcycle trials rider who currently lives in the Isle Of Man. Dougie comes from a family steeped in motorcycle sport. He was born on 23 March 1976 and brought up in Silsden, West Yorkshire, England.