Graham Clark (tenor), the Glossary
Graham Ronald Clark (10 November 1941 – 6 July 2023) was an English operatic tenor, known for roles such as David in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and especially the character roles Loge and Mime in Der Ring des Nibelungen.[1]
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90 relations: A Life for the Tsar, Ariadne auf Naxos, Ádám Fischer, Bayreuth Festival, Billy Budd (opera), Bladder cancer, Bomarzo (opera), Boris Godunov (opera), Braintree, Essex, Bruce Boyce, Capriccio (opera), Chelsea Opera Group, Clifford Grant, Cyclone Tracy, Daniel Barenboim, Darwin, Northern Territory, Das Rheingold, Decca Records, Der fliegende Holländer, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Der Schatzgräber, Diapason (magazine), Die Brautwahl, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Doktor Faust, Emmy Awards, English National Opera, Fidelio, From the House of the Dead, Gianni Schicchi, Harry Kupfer, Heather Begg, Iain Bell, István Szabó, Jürgen Flimm, Jenůfa, Joan Sutherland, John Schlesinger, Kirkham Grammar School, La bohème, La Monnaie, Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Le comte Ory, Le Grand Macabre, Lear (opera), Leoš Janáček, Les deux aveugles, Littleborough, Greater Manchester, Loughborough College, ... Expand index (40 more) »
- 21st-century British male opera singers
- Musicians from Lancashire
- People educated at Kirkham Grammar School
A Life for the Tsar
A Life for the Tsar (Zhizn za tsarya) is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka.
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Ariadne auf Naxos
(Ariadne on Naxos), Op. 60, is a 1912 opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
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Ádám Fischer
Ádám Fischer (born 9 September 1949 in Budapest) is a Hungarian conductor.
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Bayreuth Festival
The Bayreuth Festival (Bayreuther Festspiele) is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of stage works by the 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner are presented.
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Billy Budd (opera)
Billy Budd, Op.
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Bladder cancer
Bladder cancer is any of several types of cancer arising from the tissues of the urinary bladder.
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Bomarzo (opera)
Bomarzo is an opera in two acts by the Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera, his Opus 34.
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Boris Godunov (opera)
Boris Godunov (Borís Godunóv) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881).
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Braintree, Essex
Braintree is a town in Essex, England, and is the principal settlement of Braintree District.
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Bruce Boyce
Bruce Boyce (1910 – 11 May 1996) was a prominent Canadian-born American baritone singer of opera, oratorio and lieder, who made his postwar career in Britain and became a professor at the Royal Academy of Music.
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Capriccio (opera)
Capriccio, Op.
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Chelsea Opera Group
Chelsea Opera Group is an organisation based in London which arranges concert productions of operas and other works.
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Clifford Grant
Clifford Scantlebury Grant (11 September 1930 – 7 October 2021) was an Australian operatic bass singer.
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Cyclone Tracy
Severe Tropical Cyclone Tracy was a small tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia, in December 1974.
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Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim (דניאל בארנבוים; born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin.
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Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin (Larrakia) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.
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Das Rheingold
Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), WWV 86A, is the first of the four epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (English: The Ring of the Nibelung).
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Der fliegende Holländer
(The Flying Dutchman), WWV 63, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner.
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Der Ring des Nibelungen
(The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner.
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Der Schatzgräber
Der Schatzgräber (The Treasure Hunter) is an opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue by Franz Schreker with a libretto by the composer.
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Diapason (magazine)
Diapason is a monthly magazine, published in French by Italian media group Mondadori.
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Die Brautwahl
Die Brautwahl (The Bridal Choice) is a "comic-fantastic" opera in three acts and an epilogue by Ferruccio Busoni.
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (K. 384; The Abduction from the Seraglio; also known as Il Seraglio) is a singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
("The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner.
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Doktor Faust
Doktor Faust is an opera by Ferruccio Busoni with a German libretto by the composer, based on the myth of Faust.
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Emmy Awards
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.
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English National Opera
English National Opera (ENO) is a British opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane.
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Fidelio
Fidelio, originally titled (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op.
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From the House of the Dead
From the House of the Dead is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček.
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Gianni Schicchi
Gianni Schicchi is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18.
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Harry Kupfer
Harry Alfred Robert Kupfer (12 August 1935 – 30 December 2019) was a German opera director and academic.
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Heather Begg
Dame Isoleen Heather Begg (1 December 1932 – 12 May 2009) was a New Zealand-born operatic mezzo-soprano who spent most of her career in the United Kingdom and Australia.
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Iain Bell
Iain Bell (born 1980) is an English composer whose output is predominantly of vocal works, namely opera, art song or orchestral song.
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István Szabó
István Szabó (born 18 February 1938) is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.
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Jürgen Flimm
Jürgen Flimm (17 July 1941 – 4 February 2023) was a German theatre and opera director, theatre manager, and academic teacher.
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Jenůfa
Její pastorkyňa (Her Stepdaughter; commonly known as Jenůfa) is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by the composer, based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriela Preissová. It was first performed at the National Theatre, Brno on 21 January 1904.
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Joan Sutherland
Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s to the 1980s.
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John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger (16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor.
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Kirkham Grammar School
Kirkham Grammar School is a selective, co-educational private day and boarding school in Kirkham, Lancashire, England. Graham Clark (tenor) and Kirkham Grammar School are People educated at Kirkham Grammar School.
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La bohème
La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadri, tableaux or "images", rather than atti (acts).
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La Monnaie
The Royal Theatre of La Monnaie (italic,; italic; both translating as the "Royal Theatre of the Mint") is an opera house in central Brussels, Belgium.
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Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera
The Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre.
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Le comte Ory
Le comte Ory (Count Ory) is a comic opera written by Gioachino Rossini in 1828.
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Le Grand Macabre
Le Grand Macabre (completed 1977, revised 1996) is the third stage production by Hungarian composer György Ligeti, and his only major stage-work.
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Lear (opera)
Lear is an opera in two parts with music by the German composer Aribert Reimann, and a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, based on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear.
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Leoš Janáček
Leoš Janáček (3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, music theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher.
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Les deux aveugles
Les deux aveugles (The Two Blind Men or The Blind Beggars) is an 1855 one-act French bouffonerie musicale (operetta) by Jacques Offenbach.
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Littleborough, Greater Manchester
Littleborough is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, in the upper Roch Valley by the foothills of the South Pennines, northeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester; Milnrow and the M62 motorway are to the south, and the rural uplands of Blackstone Edge to the east.
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Loughborough College
Loughborough College is a general further education college located in Leicestershire, England that offers further education, higher education, apprenticeships and professional qualifications.
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Loughborough University
Loughborough University (abbreviated as Lough or Lboro for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England.
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Maria Padilla
Maria Padilla is a melodramma, or opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.
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Mazeppa (opera)
Mazeppa, properly Mazepa (Мазепа), is an opera in three acts (six scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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Mexborough
Mexborough is a town in the City of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England.
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Opéra Bastille
The Opéra Bastille ("Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Oper Frankfurt
The Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt Opera) is a German opera company based in Frankfurt.
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Opera (British magazine)
Opera is a monthly British magazine devoted to covering all things related to opera.
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Opera North
Opera North is an English opera company based in Leeds.
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Oxford
Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.
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Paris Opera
The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.
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Pascal Dusapin
Pascal Georges Dusapin (born 29 May 1955) is a French composer.
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Residentie Orchestra
Het Residentie Orkest (literal translation, The Residence Orchestra; known also in English as Residentie Orkest The Hague) is a Dutch orchestra based in The Hague.
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Richard Bonynge
Richard Alan Bonynge (born 29 September 1930) is an Australian conductor and pianist.
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Richard Jones (director)
Richard Jones CBE (born 7 June 1953) is a British theatre and opera director.
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Rodney Milnes
Rodney Milnes Blumer OBE (26 July 1936 – 5 December 2015) was an English music critic, musicologist, writer, translator and broadcaster, with a particular interest in opera.
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Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.
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Salome (opera)
Salome, Op. 54, is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss.
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Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera is the national opera company of Scotland, and one of the five national performing arts companies of Scotland.
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Sixth form college
A sixth form college (pre-university college in Malaysia) is an educational institution, where students aged 16 to 19 study typically for advanced post-school level qualifications such as A Levels, Business and Technology Education Council level 3 (BTEC), and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, or school-level qualifications such as General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations and BTEC level 2 qualifications.
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St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields is a Church of England parish church at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London.
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Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.
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Teresa Stratas
Teresa Stratas (born May 26, 1938) is an operatic soprano and actress from Canada of Greek descent.
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The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century
The Excursions of Mr.
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The Gambler (Prokofiev)
The Gambler (Russian: Игрок — Igrok in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the 1866 story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
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The Ghosts of Versailles
The Ghosts of Versailles is an opera in two acts, with music by John Corigliano to an English libretto by William M. Hoffman.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The Makropulos Affair (opera)
The Makropulos Affair (or The Makropoulos Case, The Makropulos Secret, or, literally, The Makropulos Thing; Czech Věc Makropulos) is a Czech opera in 3 acts, with music and libretto by Leoš Janáček.
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The Queen of Spades (opera)
The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame, Op.
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The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky)
The Stone Guest (Каменный гость in Cyrillic, Kamennyj gost' in transliteration) is an opera in three acts by Alexander Dargomyzhsky from a libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 play of the same name which had been written in blank verse and which forms part of his collection Little Tragedies.
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The Tales of Hoffmann
The Tales of Hoffmann (French) is an by Jacques Offenbach.
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Treble voice
A treble voice is a voice which takes the treble part.
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Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg.
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Un re in ascolto
Un re in ascolto (A King Listens) is an opera by Luciano Berio, who also wrote the Italian libretto.
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University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.
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Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera (WNO) (Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru) is an opera company based in Cardiff, Wales.
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Wexford Festival Opera
Wexford Festival Opera is an opera festival that takes place in the town of Wexford in south-eastern Ireland during the months of October and November.
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Wozzeck
Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg.
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See also
21st-century British male opera singers
- Alan Oke
- Alan Opie
- Alasdair Elliott
- Alasdair Kent
- Alastair Miles
- Alberto Remedios
- Alexander Lewis (actor)
- Alfie Boe
- Andrew Staples
- Andrew Watts (countertenor)
- Anthony Michaels-Moore
- Anthony Rolfe Johnson
- Ashley Riches
- Barry Banks (tenor)
- Barry Clark (tenor)
- Carl Gombrich
- Christopher Maltman
- Christopher Purves
- Christopher Ventris
- Darrell Babidge
- David Rendall
- David Wilson-Johnson
- Gerald English
- Graham Clark (tenor)
- Ian Belsey
- Ian Storey
- James Gilchrist (tenor)
- John Daszak
- John Mark Ainsley
- Julian Gavin
- Justin Lavender
- Lobo Chan
- Malakai Bayoh
- Nicholas Sharratt
- Peter Auty
- Philip Sheffield
- Richard Edgar-Wilson
- Richard Suart
- Robin Tyson
- Roderick Williams
- Simon Keenlyside
- Stafford Dean
- Tim Mead
- Toby Spence
- Willard White
- William Towers (countertenor)
Musicians from Lancashire
- Adrian Johnston (musician)
- Alan Rawsthorne
- Amanda Roocroft
- Barry Mason
- Charles H. Workman
- Chris Acland
- Christine McVie
- Diana Vickers
- Elizabeth Bainbridge
- Eric Easton
- Eva Turner
- Frankee Connolly
- George Formby
- Gracie Fields
- Graham Clark (tenor)
- Harrison Birtwistle
- Hugh Wood
- Jean Rigby
- Jessica Taylor
- John Howard (singer-songwriter)
- John Tomlinson (bass)
- Keith Baxter (drummer)
- Kevin Simm
- Lynne Hamilton
- Mark Price (musician)
- Marli Harwood
- Nellie Briercliffe
- Paul Reade
- Pauline Moran
- Pauline Tinsley
- Phil Rice
- Richard X
- Rick Astley
- Rosemarie Wright
- Rosie Wilby
- Sandy Edmonds
- Steph Fraser
- Tommy Fields
- William Blezard
People educated at Kirkham Grammar School
- Alastair Little
- Alex Sanderson
- Arron Reed
- Clive Tyldesley
- Dan Bibby
- Dan Kelly (rugby union)
- Eric Laithwaite
- Frank Dernie
- Graham Clark (tenor)
- James Cartmell (actor)
- Kieran Brookes
- Kieran Marmion
- Kieran Wilkinson
- Kirkham Grammar School
- Pat Sanderson
- Ralph Copeland
- Ranvir Singh
- Ray Ingleby
- Richard Wigglesworth (rugby union)
- Robert Cooke (officer of arms)
- Thomas Adamson (master gunner)
- Thomas Calvert (professor)
- Tony Lewis (mathematician)
- Tupele Dorgu
- Warren Spragg
- Zachary Langton
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Clark_(tenor)
Also known as Graham Clark (singer), Graham Ronald Clark.
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