Pocklington - Notable People

Notable People

Alphabetically:

  • Mike Bennett (businessman), award winning serial entrepreneur, E3 Media (digital agency) went to school at Woldgate between 1987–1992
  • Matt Brash, celebrity vet, Zoo Vet at Large (TV series)
  • Thomas Cooke, 19th century instrument maker, born in nearby Allerthorpe
  • Adrian Edmondson, comedian, The Young Ones and Bottom
  • Richard Herring, comedian, was born in Pocklington
  • Ralph Ineson, comedian, and actor The Office and Game of Thrones
  • Joseph Malet Lambert, 19th century author and social reformer
  • Xavier Pick, English artist
  • Neil Saunders, businessman, property developer, and Mayor of Pocklington.
  • George Herbert Stancer, cyclist, cycling journalist and administrator
  • Sir Tom Stoppard OM, CBE, contemporary playwright, Shakespeare in Love
  • Andy Strangeway, decorator, first man to visit and sleep on all of Scotland's notable islands
  • Rob Webber, Wasps and England rugby union player
  • William Wilberforce, 18th century anti-slavery campaigner
  • Michael Woods, Fourth youngest to ever play for Chelsea.

Read more about this topic:  Pocklington

Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or people:

    “a notable prince that was called King John;
    And he ruled England with main and with might,
    For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)

    “How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)