Famous people born in Bethnal Green
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Patsy Palmer
Patsy Palmer is an English actress. Palmer made an early television appearance on the childrens drama show Grange Hill, but is best known for playing Bianca Jackson in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. Originally in the cast from 19931999, she returned to EastEnders in April 2008 before leaving again in September 2014. She has also appeared in a number of TV dramas, and released an autobiography, All of Me, in 2007.....
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Emanuel Litvinoff
Emanuel Litvinoff was a British writer and wellknown figure in AngloJewish literature, known for novels, short stories, poetry, plays and human rights campaigning. ....
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Peter Green musician
Peter Green is a British blues rock guitarist and the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for his work with the group, Greens songs such as Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Oh Well and Man of the World have been recorded by artists such as Santana, Aerosmith, Status Quo, Black Crowes, Midge Ure, Tom Petty, Judas Priest and Gary Moore, who recorded Blues for Greeny, a covers album of Greens compositions.....
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George Joseph Smith
George Joseph Smith was an English serial killer and bigamist. In 1915 he was convicted and subsequently hanged for the slayings of three women, the case becoming known as the Brides in the Bath Murders. As well as being widely reported in the media, the case was significant in the history of forensic pathology and detection. It was also one of the first cases in which similarities between connected crimes were used to prove deliberation, a technique used in subsequent prosecutions.....
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Cheryl Baker
Cheryl Baker is an English television presenter and singer. She best known for being a member of 1980s pop group Bucks Fizz, who won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest. The group had 20 singles reach the UK top 60 between 1981 and 1988, including three number one hits with Making Your Mind Up , The Land of Make Believe and My Camera Never Lies . Baker left the group in 1993. She had previously represented the UK at the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest as a member of the band CoCo. In 2004, she began....
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Geoffrey Harold Woolley
Geoffrey Harold Woolley, VC, OBE, MC was a Church of England priest, British Army officer and military chaplain. He was the first British Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.....
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Hezekiah Usher
Hezekiah Usher of Boston was the first known bookseller in British America.Note A The first books printed in the thirteen colonies were published and sold by Usher.Note B....
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Leslie Fuller
Leslie Fuller was a British comedy film actor. He was married to the actress Nancy Bates. Albert Leslie Fuller was born in 1888 at 14 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, although many biographies wrongly state Margate, as he had a lifelong association with this seaside town. His father was Albert Fuller and his mother was Amelia Lepley. In 1891 his father was running a coffee house, but by 1901 he was a selfemployed printer and as a boy, Leslie would help his father in the business. From an ear....
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Frederick Bellenger
Captain Frederick John Bellenger was a British surveyor, journalist, soldier and politician.....
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Darren Costin
Darren Costin is the drummer for the new wave band Wang Chung. Costin first appeared on the groups debut album, Huang Chung, then on their second album Points on a Curve. When drumming, Costin used Simmons electronic drums. Costin left the band in 1985 after Wang Chungs second U.S. summer tour with The Cars in order to pursue a solo career.....
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Alfie Bass
Alfie Bass was an English actor. He was born in Bethnal Green, London, the youngest in a Jewish family with ten children his parents had left Russia many years before he was born. He appeared in a variety of stage, film, television and radio productions throughout his career.....
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Mabel Poulton
Mabel Lilian Poulton was an English film actress, popular in Britain during the era of silent films.....
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Christopher Gandy
Christopher Henry Gandy was an English cricketer. Gandy was a lefthanded batsman who was a leftarm fastmedium bowler.....
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Barry Paul
Barry Paul is a British fencer. He competed in the individual and team foil events at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics.....
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Dick Corbett
Richard Coleman, better known as Dick Corbett , was a twotime British bantamweight champion. He was from Bethnal Green, London.....
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James Davis Kent cricketer
James Painter Davis was an English cricketer active in the 1820s and 1830s, making four appearances in firstclass cricket. Christened at Bethnal Green, Middlesex on 7 March 1790, Davis was a batsman of unknown style who played firstclass cricket for three teams.....
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Margaret Moran
Margaret Moran is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She was the Member of Parliament for Luton South from the 1997 general election to 2010. In November 2012, jurors at Southwark Crown Court ruled that she had falsified her Parliamentary expenses. She had been unable to stand trial because of mental health issues, but the case was heard without her.....
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