Crawley has produced no shortage of famous people over the years.

From one of the UK's funniest comedians to international musicians, the town isn't short of talent.

So it's probably likely that someone you know (or maybe you yourself) went to school with someone who is now in the public eye.

Did you go to school with any of people below?

1. Gareth Southgate

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No list mentioning Crawley is complete without mentioning Gareth Southgate.

The 49-year-old went to Hazelwick School as a teenager and actually played for the school football team.

He made more than 500 appearances for Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Middlesbrough and was capped 57 times for England.

He is now manager of England and led the national team to the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2018.

2. Romesh Ranganathan

Funny-man Romesh grew up in Broadfield and having been a pupil at Hazelwick School went on to become a maths teacher and head of sixth form at the same school.

Having switched careers to become a comedian he has appeared on TV almost as often over the last few years as that bloke who reads the 10 o'clock news.

At a charity event at the Crowne Plaza, in Langley Green, in May, 2016, he said he gets noticed in Crawley more for being a former Hazelwick teacher than he does for his countless TV appearances.

3. Alan Minter

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Alan "Boom Boom" Minter won a bronze medal at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and during his professional career was the undisputed Middleweight Champion of the World.

Before that he went to school in the town, and learned his trade at Crawley Boxing Club.

He retired from the ring with a record of 39 wins, nine losses and one no contest. He won 23 fights by knockout.

4. The Feeling

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Three members of the band The Feeling went to St Wilfrid's School.

Kevin Jeremiah, Ciaran Jeremiah and Paul Stewart are from Horsham but it was at the secondary school where they met, with the remaining two members Dan Gillespie Sells and Richard Jones attending the BRIT School in Croydon.

Their first UK single, Sewn, reached a creditable number 7 in the charts in 2006.

Their second album, Join With Us, reached number one in the UK charts, in 2008.

5. Chico

The singer, who first appeared on our TV screens as a contestant on The X Factor in 2005, is a former Hazelwick School pupil.

The always smiling 48-year-old, whose real name is Yousseph Slimani, reached the quarter-finals of the singing competition and had a number one British chart hit with surely the greatest song since John Lennon's Imagine or Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody - It's Chico Time.

He spent part of his childhood in Morocco and had previous jobs as a goat herder, an exotic dancer and an engineer before he found fame.

The Crawley schoolboy starred on Dancing On Ice where he skated to third place in the 2012 series and appeared on other TV shows including Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Celebrity Total Wipeout.

6. The Cure

Possibly the town's most famous exports, Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey, Lol Tolhurt and Porl Thompson formed the band in 1976, which was originally called Easy Cure, at St Wilfrid's School.

In 1978 the band's name was refined to The Cure and they released their debut album, Three Imaginary Boys, in May 1979.

Robert Smith has remained the only constant member of a band that has racked up record sales in the region of 30 million with songs like Lovesong, Pictures of You and Just Like Heaven.

Their legacy is so immense that films Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Just Like Heaven (2005) took their names from Cure songs.

7. Dan Walker

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BBC presenter Dan Walker grew up in Crawley, supports Crawley Town and went to Hazelwick School.

He has presented Football Focus for seven years and now presents BBC Breakfast.

He has appeared regularly on Match of the Day - whenever Gary Lineker fancies a day off.

Being the son of a preacher, Dan has never worked on or played sport on a Sunday as a result of his faith, even admitting he once turned down youth football contracts because games were scheduled on Sundays.

8. Daley Thompson

Double Olympic gold medal winner Daley Thompson trained in the town and also studied physics, biology and geography at Crawley College of Technology.

He won decathlon gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984 and broke the world record for the event four times.

The 61-year-old won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 1982 and was awarded a CBE in 2000.

He was forced to retire from athletes in 1992 due to a persistent hamstring injury and in the 1990s he played professional football for Mansfield Town and Stevenage.

9. Philip Lawson

A Grammy-award winning composer, Phillip made his name being a baritone (a type of classical singing voice) and principal arranger with the King's Singers, a British a cappella vocal ensemble

Before touring around the world with the group, Phillip was born in Crawley and went to Hazelwick School.

His love for music apparently blossomed after joining the boy's choir at St Nicholas Church, in Worth.

In recent years, Phillip has been a musical director of The Romsey Singers, a chamber choir based in Romsey, near Southampton.

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