Editing Darlington (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[George Allison]] – football manager in 1930s
* [[James Atkinson (Persian scholar)|James Atkinson]] (1780–1852) – surgeon, artist and Persian scholar
* [[Duncan Bannatyne]] – entrepreneur
* [[Garry Williamson Barnes]] - footballer 
* [[Nick Bilton]] – columnist for ''The New York Times'' and bestselling author
* [[Julie Bindel]] – journalist, columnist, political activist, lesbian and gay rights campaigner, born in Darlington 
* [[Zoe Birkett]] – singer, runner up on television show ''[[Pop Idol]]''
* [[George Butterfield (athlete)|George Butterfield]] – Darlington Harrier's Former 100m record holder and Olympian  
* [[Sandra Bowman]] – Olympic and Commonwealth Games swimmer in 1980s
* [[Aidan Chambers]] – children's author<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/jul/11/schools.booksforchildrenandteenagers Shock tactics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213211355/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2000/jul/11/schools.booksforchildrenandteenagers |date=13 December 2022 }} ''The Guardian''</ref>
* [[Peter Chapman (murderer)|Peter Chapman]] – convicted murderer, born in Darlington in 1977, brought up in nearby Stockton on Tees.
* [[Tom Craddock]] – footballer
* [[James Cudworth (engineer)|James Cudworth]] – locomotive superintendent for the [[South Eastern Railway (UK)|South Eastern Railway]] (1845–76)
* [[Alex Cunningham]] – MP for [[Stockton North (UK Parliament constituency)|Stockton North]]
* [[Giles Deacon]] – fashion designer
* [[J. M. Dent]] – publisher, produced Everyman's Library series<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lloyd |first=Chris |date=16 November 2010 |title=Darlington: Addressing Dressers |work=The Northern Echo |location=Darlington |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8638032.Addressing_Dressers/ |url-status=live |access-date=24 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225130656/http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8638032.Addressing_Dressers/ |archive-date=25 February 2017}}</ref>
* [[Frederick Dickens]] – Charles Dickens' beloved scapegrace brother, buried in the West Cemetery<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 March 2012 |title=Twist on Dickens' dale links and his feckless brother |url=http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/Articles/Twist-on-Dickens-dale-links-and-his-feckless-brother |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621190910/http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/Articles/Twist-on-Dickens-dale-links-and-his-feckless-brother |archive-date=21 June 2017 |access-date=7 December 2018 |newspaper=Teesdale Mercury}}</ref>
* [[Harry Dobinson]] – footballer
* [[Elizabeth Esteve-Coll]] (née Kingdon) – director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the first woman to head a national arts institution
* [[John Wilson Ewbank|John W. Ewbank]] – landscape and marine painter 
* [[Simon Farnaby]] – actor, writer and comedian
* [[Don Featherstone (filmmaker, 1902–1984)|Don Featherstone]] – filmmaker
* [[Ruth Gemmell]] – actress<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pavel |first=John |date=24 May 2002 |title=Ruth Gemmell interview |work=Sheffield Telegraph |url=http://www.petergill7.co.uk/works/reviews/sheffield_02/ruth_gemmell_sheffield_telegraph_interview.shtml |url-status=live |access-date=15 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415215130/http://www.petergill7.co.uk/works/reviews/sheffield_02/ruth_gemmell_sheffield_telegraph_interview.shtml |archive-date=15 April 2015 |via=petergill7.co.uk}}</ref>
* [[Ian Hamilton (critic)|Ian Hamilton]] – poet and editor
* [[Ann Heron]] – victim of notorious unsolved murder in the town in 1990
* [[Ralph Hodgson]] – poet<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 February 2009 |title=Town's most famous poet who had a passion for bull mastiffs |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/4161940.towns-famous-poet-passion-bull-mastiffs/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211014013817/https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/history/4161940.towns-famous-poet-passion-bull-mastiffs/ |archive-date=14 October 2021 |access-date=6 December 2020 |website=The Northern Echo}}</ref>
* [[George Gordon Hoskins]] – architect responsible for many of Darlington's [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] buildings
* [[Joy Grieveson]] – European silver 400m medalist and Olympian
* [[Glenn Hugill]] – actor and television producer<ref>{{Cite news |date=15 February 2007 |title=Ex-Corrie star outed as No Deal banker |work=Manchester Evening News |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/ex-corrie-star-outed-as-no-deal-1026405 |url-status=live |access-date=24 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110235201/http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/ex-corrie-star-outed-as-no-deal-1026405 |archive-date=10 November 2016}}</ref>
* [[Richard Hurndall]] – actor<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 April 1984 |title=Richard Hurndall |page=14 |work=The Times |url=http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php/Richard_Hurndall |via=The Doctor Who Cuttings Archive}}</ref>
* [[Robert Anderson Jardine]] – vicar
* [[John Kenworthy]] – aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer in World War I<ref>{{Cite web |title=1933 Who's Who in British Aviation: Name K |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1933_Who%27s_Who_in_British_Aviation%3A_Name_K |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213211747/https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/1933_Who%27s_Who_in_British_Aviation%3A_Name_K |archive-date=13 December 2022 |access-date=11 January 2023}}</ref>
* [[Alan Kitching (Typographic artist)|Alan Kitching]] – typographic artist and teacher
* [[Philippa Langley]] – discovered the remains of Richard III in a car park in Leicester in 2012<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ashdown-Hill |first1=J. |title=Finding Richard III: The Official Account of Research by the Retrieval and Reburial Project |last2=Johnson |first2=D. |last3=Johnson |first3=W. |last4=Langley |first4=P. |date=2014 |publisher=Imprimis Imprimatur |isbn=978-0957684027 |editor-last=Carson |editor-first=A.&nbsp;J.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=23 August 2015 |title=Darlington-raised Philippa Langley set for more digging into history |url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/13621152.darlington-raised-philippa-langley-set-digging-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912151533/https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/13621152.darlington-raised-philippa-langley-set-digging-history/ |archive-date=12 September 2022 |access-date=12 September 2022 |website=Northern Echo}}</ref>
* [[Mary Lawson (actress)|Mary Lawson]] (1910–1940) – stage and film actress of 1920s and 1930s, born in Darlington, killed in air raid on Liverpool<ref name="timesmay101941">{{Cite news |date=10 May 1941 |title=Second Raid on Humber Area Many Casualties, Other Attacks in North Midlands |page=2 |work=[[The Times]] |issue=48922 |location=London}}</ref><ref name="echo">{{Cite news |last=Lloyd |first=Chris |date=19 March 2003 |title=Echo memories – Tragic star whose light was snuffed out too early |page=6b |work=The Northern Echo |location=Darlington}}</ref>
* [[Michael Lee (musician)|Michael Lee]] – hard rock drummer ([[Little Angels]], [[The Cult]], [[Page and Plant]], [[Thin Lizzy]])
* [[Florence Eva Simpson]] (Eva Lorence), (1865–1923), the popular composer and writer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Katherine Ashton Simpson |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/simpson-katherine-ashton-18581951 |website=Art UK |publisher=ArtUK |access-date=11 September 2024}}</ref>
* [[Duncan Lorimer]] – Astrophysicist <ref>{{Cite web |title=Pioneering WVU astrophysicist named prestigious Fellow of the Royal Society, the ‘Oscar’ of the science world |url=https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2024/05/20/pioneering-wvu-astrophysicist-named-prestigious-fellow-of-the-royal-society-the-oscar-of-the-science-world}}</ref>
* [[Neil Maddison]] – footballer
* [[Jann Mardenborough]] – racing driver, Le Mans podium finisher
* [[James Morrison (footballer)|James Morrison]] – footballer
* [[Mary Osborn]] (b. 1940) – cell biologist<ref name=":0">F. M. Watt. (2004) "Mary Osborn"  ''Journal of Cell Science'' '''117'''(8):1255-1256.</ref>
* [[Al Pease]] – racing driver, only F1 driver disqualified for going too slow ([[1969 Canadian Grand Prix]])
* [[Edward Pease (railway pioneer)|Edward Pease]] (1767–1858) – Quaker industrialist and railway pioneer<ref name="ODNBPease">ODNB entries for Edward Pease and Joseph Pease [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21728 Retrieved 31 July 2011, pay-walled.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225130304/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21728 |date=25 February 2017 }}</ref>
* [[Joseph Pease (railway pioneer)|Joseph Pease]] (1799–1872) – Quaker industrialist and railway pioneer, first Quaker MP<ref name="ODNBPease" />
* [[Julie Rayne]] – singer and actress 
* [[Vic Reeves]] – comedian and author, lived in Darlington as teenager Jim Moir in 1970s<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 October 2006 |title=The strange world of Lucky Jim |work=The Northern Echo |url=http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/leader/956116.the_strange_world_of_lucky_jim/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402114952/http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/leader/956116.the_strange_world_of_lucky_jim/ |archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>
* [[Katherine Routledge]] (née Pease) – archaeologist and anthropologist, made first scientific survey of [[Easter Island]]
* [[Paul Smith (blogger)|Paul Smith]] – former radio executive and technology entrepreneur<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ford |first=Coreena |date=27 December 2019 |title=North East business leaders named on New Year's Honours List |url=https://www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/north-east-business-leaders-named-17480571 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718125419/https://www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/north-east-business-leaders-named-17480571 |archive-date=18 July 2020 |access-date=18 July 2020 |website=Business Live}}</ref>
* [[Willie Smith (billiards player)|Willie Smith]] – twice winner of World Billiards Championship<ref>{{Cite web |title=Billiards and Snooker Archive |url=https://www.billiardsandsnookerarchive.co.uk/players/willie-smith/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724133944/https://www.billiardsandsnookerarchive.co.uk/players/willie-smith/ |archive-date=24 July 2019 |access-date=24 October 2019}}</ref> 
* [[William Thomas Stead]] – campaigning journalist, editor of ''[[The Northern Echo]]'', died in [[Sinking of the RMS Titanic|sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'']]<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Thomas Stead |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Thomas-Stead |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102114933/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Thomas-Stead |archive-date=2 November 2022 |access-date=13 December 2022}}</ref>
* Sir [[John Summerson]] – architectural historian<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sir John Newenham Summerson: Royal Academy of Arts |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/john-newenham-summerson |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924223012/https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/john-newenham-summerson |archive-date=24 September 2021 |access-date=1 April 2020 |website=www.royalacademy.org.uk}}</ref>
* [[Paul Swift (driver)|Paul Swift]] – professional stunt and precision driver
* [[Russ Swift]] –  professional stunt and precision driver
* [[Callum Tarren]] - professional golfer (DP World Tour)<ref>{{cite news |title=Bunker mentality: How Darlington's finest took Chinese golf by storm |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/golf/callum-tarren-china-gold-pga-tour-michael-skelton-tiger-woods-rory-mcilroy-a8645011.html |newspaper=The Independent |first=Tom |last=Kershaw |date=21 November 2018 |access-date=1 February 2025}}</ref>
*[[Geoffrey Thwaites]] – GB International Swimmer, 200m Backstroke at the 1964 Olympics<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sports Reference Olympics |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/geoff-thwaites-1.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035941/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/geoff-thwaites-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020}}</ref>
* [[Cherry Valentine]] (1993–2022) – drag queen<ref>{{Cite news |title=Cherry Valentine, star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, dies aged 28 {{!}} Television & radio |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/23/cherry-valentine-rupaul-drag-race-uk-dies-drag-performer-george-ward |url-status=live |access-date=24 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220923171801/https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/23/cherry-valentine-rupaul-drag-race-uk-dies-drag-performer-george-ward |archive-date=23 September 2022}}</ref>
* [[David Varey]] (born 1961) – cricketer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Player profile: David Varey |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22195.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626023826/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22195.html |archive-date=26 June 2013 |access-date=3 October 2011 |website=EPSNcricinfo}}</ref> 
* [[Paul Walton]] – motoring journalist
* [[Isaac Ward|Issac Argie Ward]] - English Boxer
* [[Charlotte Whitehead]] (1843–1916) – pioneering Canadian woman physician, born in Darlington<ref>{{Cite web |title=Epic of Manitoba's First Woman Doctor |url=https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm:1797431 |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=University of Manitoba Digital Collections |series=The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, 1934-04-07 (Page 43)}}</ref>
* [[Giuseppe Wilson]] – footballer (Lazio and Italy)
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