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==Notable people== [[File:Ginger Lacey.jpg|thumb|right|Wetherby-born Second World War flying ace 'Ginger' Lacey, in about 1940]] [[File:CINvOCB 2017-05-13 - Seb Hines (34525816801) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Major League Soccer]] footballer Seb Hines was born and raised in Wetherby]] * Beer and whisky expert [[Michael Jackson (writer)|Michael Jackson]] (1942β2007) was born in Wetherby.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/04/guardianobituaries.lifeandhealth | title = Michael Jackson | date = 4 September 2004 | newspaper = The Guardian | author = Roger Protz}}</ref> * [[Flight Lieutenant]] [[James Harry Lacey|'Ginger' Lacey]] (1917β1989), a [[Battle of Britain]] flying ace, was born in Wetherby.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web | url = https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0994930/bio | publisher = IMDb | title = Ginger' Lacey. Biography | access-date = 4 August 2007}}</ref> ''Lacey Grove'' is named after him.<ref name="wol">{{cite web |url=http://www.wetherby.co.uk/about/facts.php4 |title=About Wetherby β Fascinating Facts|access-date=4 August 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004221236/http://www.wetherby.co.uk/about/facts.php4 |archive-date=4 October 2006 |work=Wetherby Online}}</ref> * Former goalkeeper [[Stuart Naylor]] was born in Wetherby in 1962. He was capped three times for the [[England national football team|England]] [[England B national football team|B team]] in the 1980s * [[Yorkshire Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] [[Cricket]]er [[Charles Midgley]] was born in Wetherby in 1877 and died in Bradford in 1942. * Former Conservative [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] [[Robert Sturdy]] was born in Wetherby in 1944. He has never represented Yorkshire [[constituencies]], holding seats in the Tory heartlands of [[Cambridgeshire]] and [[Bedfordshire]]. * [[Essex cricket team|Essex]] Cricketer [[Fred Cooper (1888β1958)|Fred Cooper]] was born in Wetherby in 1888. * Former [[Middlesbrough F.C.]] footballer, [[Seb Hines]] (born 1988), is from the [[Hallfields Estate]] in Wetherby. * [[Skins (TV series)|Skins]] Actor [[Sam Jackson (actor)|Sam Jackson]] also comes from Wetherby and was born in October 1993. * [[Reginald Wickham]], cricketer * [[Emily Wardman]], museum curator <!--- Editors Note - Please confine the list of 'notable names to those born in Wetherby. Those with no Wiki article or supporting reference of notability will be deleted -->
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