Born in Staffordshire

Staffordshire

Ceremonial county in England

Staffordshire as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. British physician, British photographic experimentor, English cardinal, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury): Robert James, Thomas Wedgwood, Reginald Pole and some more.

Celebrities from Staffordshire

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Robert James

British physician

*August 23rd, 1703 †March 23rd, 1776, London

34

Thomas Wedgwood

British photographic experimentor

*May 14th, 1771 †July 10th, 1805, Dorset

58

Reginald Pole

English cardinal, the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury

*March 3rd, 1500 †November 17th, 1558, London

91

Thomas Allen

English mathematician (c. 1540 – 1632)

*December 21st, 1540 †September 30th, 1632, Gloucester College

79

Gilbert Sheldon

Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of London (1598-1677)

*June 19th, 1598 †November 9th, 1677, Lambeth Palace

65

William Wollaston

English philosopher (1659-1724)

*March 26th, 1659 †October 29th, 1724, London

78

Anthony Bamford

British businessman (born 1945)

*October 23rd, 1945

40

Chris Slater

English footballer (born 1984)

*January 14th, 1984

61

Phil Dowd

Football referee

*January 26th, 1963

37

Joe Hall

Canadian ice hockey player (1881-1919)

*May 3rd, 1881 †April 5th, 1919, Seattle

85

Mary Adela Blagg

British astronomer (1858–1944)

*May 17th, 1858 †April 14th, 1944, Staffordshire

26

Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford

English Earl

*March 2nd, 1377 †July 21st, 1403, Shrewsbury

85

H. J. Round

British inventor

*June 2nd, 1881 †August 17th, 1966, Bognor Regis

65

George Anson, 1st Baron Anson

British admiral (1697-1762)

*April 23rd, 1697 †June 6th, 1762, Hertfordshire

86

Ken Downing

Racecar driver

*December 5th, 1917 †May 3rd, 2004, Monte Carlo

48

Gerry Hitchens

English footballer (1934-1983)

*October 8th, 1934 †April 13th, 1983, Hope

47

Rupert Evans

British actor

*March 9th, 1977

73

James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley

English peer

*January 8th, 1313 †April 1st, 1386, Heighley Castle

50

Mark Starr

British professional wrestler

*December 26th, 1962 †June 7th, 2013, Brandon

38

Laura Welsh

British singer-songwriter

*November 30th, 1985

25

Wes Nelson

English television personality

*May 3rd, 1998

93

Bert Williams

English footballer (1920-2014)

*January 31st, 1920 †January 19th, 2014, Wolverhampton

81

Guy N. Smith

British writer

*July 21st, 1939 †December 24th, 2020, Shrewsbury

60

Glenn Carter

British actor

*March 27th, 1964

62

Richard Wattis

British actor (1912-1975)

*February 25th, 1912 †February 1st, 1975, London

80

Robert Bateman

English artist, illstrator, architect, scholar (1842-1922)

*January 1st, 1842 †August 4th, 1922, Shropshire

Birthdays of famous people