Famous Residents
- Johnny Briggs, actor
- Jonn Penney, Musician - Neds' Atomic Dustbin
- William Henry Bury, murderer and Jack the Ripper suspect
- Fiona Butler, the 'tennis girl' captured scratching her bare behind in the iconic 1976 Athena poster was born in Pedmore. It was created by her then boyfriend, local photographer Martin Elliott.
- Phil Cope, lead guitarist for iconic Doom Metal band Witchfinder General.
- Kay Davies, Human Geneticist
- Stephen Laughton, Playwright
- Gregory Cartwright, Prolific Writer and Poet Laureate
- Frank Foley, the relatively little-known "British Schindler" retired and eventually died in Stourbridge. A memorial is in Mary Stevens Park.
- Samuel Johnson lived and worked in Stourbridge for a time
- Don Kenyon, cricketer, captain of Worcestershire
- Screech Louder, drummer in indie band The Long Blondes
- The Wonder Stuff formed in Stourbridge in 1986
- Matt Neal, Motor racing driver
- Dan O'Hagan, BBC Match of the Day football commentator
- Pop Will Eat Itself formed in Stourbridge 1986
- Ian Pearson MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Economics and Business and also Economic Secretary to the Treasury
- Jan Pearson, Actress was born here. Jan plays Karen Hollins on the BBC's daytime soap Doctors.
- Robert Plant, singer with Led Zeppelin. Attended King Edward VI School, Stourbridge.
- Danielle Saxon Reeves, classical banjo and guitarist; director of the Midlands Fretted Orchestra
- Nigel Reo-Coker, Aston Villa player
- Debra Shipley MP
- David Trotman, Pure mathematician. Attended King Edward VI School, Stourbridge.
- Lynda Waltho MP
- Thomas Webb, founder of Thomas Webb & Sons
- Brett Westwood, radio presenter and author
- Joseph Jackson, Award winning Jeweller
- Dave Cartwright, singer-songwriter, broadcaster and author
- Walter Braithwaite, teacher, composer and pianist.
- Clement Lindley Wragge, meteorologist
- Ashley Young, Manchester United player
- Kenton Allen, Multi-award winning programme maker with programmes such as the BAFTA award winning The Royle Family (2000) and the Oscar award winning film Six Shooter (2006). Attended King Edward VI School, Stourbridge.
- Clint Mansell, English musician, composer, and former lead singer and guitarist of the band Pop Will Eat Itself.Attended King Edward VI School, Stourbridge.
- S.J. Watson. Author of Before I Go to Sleep, was born and lived here before moving to London.
- Witchfinder General - Doom metal/NWOBHM band that formed in the late 1970s
- Diamond Head, heavy metal band who influenced other bands such as Metallica
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“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)