List of Famous people born in West Bromwich, United Kingdom

Robert Anthony Plant is an English singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the English rock band Led Zeppelin.

Denise Lewis,, is a British sports presenter and former track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, was twice Commonwealth Games champion, was the 1998 European Champion and won World Championships silver medals in 1997 and 1999. She was the first European to win the Olympic heptathlon, though Europeans, including Briton Mary Peters, had won the Olympic pentathlon precursor event.

Dean Smith is an English professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Premier League club Aston Villa.

Philip Parris Lynott was an Irish singer, musician, and songwriter. His most commercially successful group was Thin Lizzy, of which he was a founding member, the principal songwriter, lead vocalist and bassist. He was known for his imaginative lyrical contributions including working class tales and numerous characters drawn from personal influences and Celtic culture.

Jeremy Roland Peace is a British businessman, and the former chairman and owner of West Bromwich Albion F.C, a professional football club in the West Midlands, England.

Alastair Brian Walden was a British journalist and broadcaster who spent over a decade as a Labour member of Parliament. He was considered one of the finest political interviewers in the history of British broadcasting, tenacious and ruthless. He won awards for broadcasting including the BAFTA Richard Dimbleby Award for television in 1986, and in 1991 was named ITV personality of the year. He was known for interviews of politicians, especially Margaret Thatcher. He was said to be her favourite interviewer, although he gave her tough interviews.

Frank Skinner is an English writer, comedian, TV and radio presenter, and actor. At the 2001 British Comedy Awards, he was awarded the Best Comedy Entertainment Personality.

Isaiah Jay Brown is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder, forward or a winger for Sheffield Wednesday on loan from Chelsea of the Premier League. He represented the England national under-20 team.

Matthew David Marsden is an English actor, producer, singer and former model. He has appeared in films such as Helen of Troy, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Tamara, Resident Evil: Extinction, Rambo, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Atlas Shrugged.

David Christie Murray was an English journalist and fiction writer.