List of people from Kettering

This is a list of notable people who were born in or have been residents of the town of Kettering, in the county of Northamptonshire, England.

Academia

James Acaster – comedian
Robert Ames – conductor and violist, who holds the positions of co-Artistic Director and co-Principal Conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra[1]
David Armand – comedian, actor and writer
Hugh Dennis – comedian, actor, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist
Sienna Guillory – actress and former model
David Hawthorne – stage and film actor[2][3]
Jim King – original member of the British rock band Family[4]
Jack Lucien – British-born Andorran singer, music producer, and songwriter,[5] best known for his 2009 single I'm Not Afraid[6]
Horace Panter – bassist for the 2 Tone ska band The Specials
Russ Russell – record producer, sound engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, musician and writer
Chris Smith – radio newsreader, most famous for presenting Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1
Faryl Smith – soprano
Temples – rock band

James Ashworth – British soldier and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross
Raymond Lewin GC – Pilot Officer of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) was (whilst a Sergeant) awarded the George Cross for the courage he showed in rescuing his co-pilot from their burning plane on 3 November 1940 in Malta[7]
Edward Sismore DSO DFC Two Bars AFC AE – Air Commodore

Michael Kidner – pioneer of Op art
Ron Chippindale – Chief Inspector of Air Accidents in charge of the New Zealand Office of Air Accidents Investigations
Alfred East – painter
John Alfred Gotch – architect and architectural historian
Thomas Cooper Gotch – painter and book illustrator loosely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement
Catherine Hall – feminist historian
Jack Laundon – lichenologist, who became President of the British Lichen Society[8]
Edward Nettleship FRS FCS - ophthalmologist[9]
John Trivett Nettleship – artist, known as a painter of animals and in particular lions, he was also an author and book illustrator
Samuel Perkins Pick – architect strongly associated with Leicestershire, and co-founder of the architecture and civil engineering firm Pick Everard

Thomas Allen – clergyman and divine
John Brine – Particular Baptist minister
Andrew Fuller – Particular Baptist minister and theologian
John Gill – Baptist pastor, biblical scholar, and theologian
William Knibb – Baptist minister and missionary to Jamaica, chiefly known today for his work to free slaves

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