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

• Maurice Kendall, statistician, widely known for his contribution to statistics
• Henry Nettleship, classical scholar
• Dame Sarah Gilbert, Saïd Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford

Entertainment

• James Acaster, comedian
• Robert Ames, conductor and violist, co-artistic director and co-principal conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra^[1]
• David Armand, comedian, actor and writer
• Jayne Conneely, DJane, record producer, co-founder and former manager of the record label Metalheadz
• 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]
• Valerie Olukemi A "Kemi" Olusanya, DJane, record producer, co-founder and former manager of the record label Metalheadz
• 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
• Mae Stephens, singer and songwriter
• Temples, rock band
• Naomi Battrick, actress

Military

• Raymond Lewin, pilot officer of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR), awarded the George Cross for rescuing his co-pilot in 1940 in Malta^[7]
• Edward Sismore, air commodore

Miscellaneous

• 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, president of the British Lichen Society^[8]
• Edward Nettleship, 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
• Royston (Roy) Warner Wilson (1900-1965), Amalgamated Press comic artist

Politics

• Tom Bradley, British politician
• Henry Briggs, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for 23 years, and its president for 13 years
• Andy Sawford, Labour and Co-operative Party politician
• Phil Sawford, Labour Party politician, who was the member of Parliament (MP) for Kettering from 1997 to 2005

Religion

• 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, known for his work to free slaves

Sport

• Dermot Bailey, professional wheelchair tennis player
• Daniel Berridge, trampoline gymnast
• Nick Coles, cricketer
• Sean Dyche, former professional footballer, former manager of Burnley Football Club, former manager of Everton F.C.
• Ricky Evans, darts player
• Harry Gouldstone, cricketer
• Charley Hull, professional golfer
• Angela Hunter, international track and road racing cyclist^[10]
• Kyren Wilson, snooker player

Writer/ journalist

• Frank Bellamy, comics artist, best known for his work on the Eagle comic
• J. L. Carr, English novelist, publisher, teacher and eccentric
• Jane E. Clarke, writer of children's books and poetry
• Jill McGown, writer of mystery novels
• Keith Roberts, science fiction author