List of Famous people born in Dewsbury, United Kingdom

Alistair Brownlee

First Name Alistair
Born on April 23, 1988 (age 37)
Height 184 cm | 6'0

Alistair Edward Brownlee, MBE is a British triathlete. He is the only athlete to hold two Olympic titles in the triathlon event, winning gold medals in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games and the only man to have won Olympic Gold whilst going into the event as favourite for the title. He is also a two-time Triathlon World Champion, a two-time World Team Champion, a four-time European Champion, and the 2014 Commonwealth champion.

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Sam Burgess

First Name Sam
Last Name Burgess
Born on December 14, 1988 (age 36)

Samuel Burgess is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a loose forward, prop or second-row forward in the 2000s and 2010s.

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Betty Boothroyd

First Name Betty
Last Name Boothroyd
Born on October 8, 1929 (age 95)

Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, Hon. FSLL is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. From 1992 to 2000, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons. She is the only woman to have served as Speaker. She is one of the two living former Speakers of the House of Commons. She sits, by tradition, as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords.

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Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi

First Name Sayeeda
Born on March 28, 1971 (age 54)

Sayeeda Hussain Warsi, Baroness Warsi is a British lawyer, politician and member of the House of Lords who served as co-Chairwoman of the Conservative Party from 2010 to 2012. She served in Cameron–Clegg coalition, first as the Minister without portfolio between 2010 and 2012, then as the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and as the Minister of State for Faith and Communities, until her resignation citing her disagreement with the Government's policy on the Israel–Gaza conflict in August 2014.

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Tymal Mills

First Name Tymal
Born on August 12, 1992 (age 32)

Tymal Solomon Mills is an English cricketer who currently plays for Sussex.

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Ian Hinchliffe

First Name Ian
Last Name Hinchliffe
Born on January 1, 1952 (age 73)

Ian Hinchliffe is a British physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He obtained his BA and his D.Phil. in physics from Oxford University.

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Owen Willans Richardson

First Name Owen
Last Name Richardson
Born on April 26, 1879
Died on February 15, 1959 (aged 79)

Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

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Robert Hardy

First Name Robert
Last Name Hardy
Born on August 16, 1980 (age 44)

Robert Byron "Bob" Hardy is an English musician and the bassist for the Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand.

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Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood

First Name Betty
Last Name Lockwood
Died on April 29, 2019 (aged 49)

Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood was a Labour Party activist. She was heavily involved in promoting equal opportunities for women on a national and international level.

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Tom Kilburn

First Name Tom
Last Name Kilburn
Born on August 11, 1921
Died on January 17, 2001 (aged 79)

Tom Kilburn was an English mathematician and computer scientist. Over the course of a productive 30-year career, he was involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams–Kilburn tube and the world's first electronic stored-program computer, the Manchester Baby, while working at the University of Manchester. His work propelled Manchester and Britain into the forefront of the emerging field of computer science.

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