This is Sussex -- * LOS Angeles, New York and London are the places to be if you want to indulge in a spot of celebrity spotting bingo.*But many famous faces come from humble beginnings and our town has its fair share of big names.
Reporter DAVE COMEAU presents our top 10 celebrities (or groups of celebs) who come from or have links to Crawley.
Gareth Southgate
THE former Hazelwick School pupil may not live in Crawley anymore, but he carries the town with him wherever he goes thanks to his surname.
No other Crawley celeb can boast having one of the town's neighbourhoods named after them (actually neither can Gareth, it's just a coincidence).
A regular football pundit on ITV, he previously managed Middlesborough and, of course, played for England.
He will always have the misfortune of being remembered as the England player whose saved penalty against Germany saw us crash out of Euro '96.
Alan Minter
IN the blue corner we have 1971 ABA World Middleweight Champion Alan Minter, who was born in the town.
The boxing champ also won the bronze medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
His pugilistic talents have evidently been passed on to his son Ross "The Boss" Minter, who is the current English and British (Southern Area) Welterweight Champion.
Teenage nephew Kye Minter also boxes and trains in Crawley.
Bizarrely, Alan was once confused with one of Britain's most famous female tennis players.
During an episode of the BBC's long-running quiz show A Question of Sport Emlyn Hughes incorrectly identified him as the sports personality disguised in the "Mystery Guest" round.
In fact, it was Sue Barker.
The Cure
WITHOUT a doubt the town's most famous musical export has been The Cure.
Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey, Lol Tolhurt and Porl Thompson formed the band in 1976, originally as Easy Cure, at St Wilfrid's School.
In 1978 the band's name was refined to The Cure and band members have changed over the years.
Robert Smith has remained the only constant member of a band who over the years have racked up record sales in the region of 30 million.
Films Boys Don't Cry (1999) and Just Like Heaven (2005) took their names from Cure songs.
And their impact remains as strong as ever with modern big-name bands such as My Chemical Romance being heavily influenced by The Cure's music.
Chico
A RELENTLESS ball of energy who is rarely seen without his trademark cheesy grin, he is another former Hazelwick School pupil.
Born Yousseph Slimani, before he became famous his CV included jobs as diverse as a goat herder, an exotic dancer and an engineer.
Chico glided onto our TV screens when he was a contestant on The X Factor in 2005.
It's unlikely to go down in history as one of the great songs, but his first single Chico Time knocked Madonna off the top of the charts.
More recently he starred on Dancing On Ice when another one-hit wonder, Chesney Hawkes, had to pull out with an injury.
Wearing some very tight lycra outfits along the way he skated to third place.
Daley Thompson
ONE of Britain's greatest ever athletes – and Lord Coe no less has in the past rated him as the world's greatest ever Olympian, ahead of the likes of Jesse Owens and Michael Phelps.
We would like to think that his success wouldn't have been possible if he hadn't trained in Crawley for a stretch of his career!
He also studied physics, biology, and geography at Crawley College of Technology.
Thompson won decathlon gold medals at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games and broke the world record for the event four times.
Thompson was a natural showman who endeared himself to the public – and who could forget that moustache?
England's great rivalry in football with Germany was mirrored in the decathlon thanks to Thompson and West German athlete Jürgen Hingsen.
The pair consistently traded world records but Thompson always had the upper hand in major events, remaining undefeated for nine years between 1979 and 1987.
The Feeling
THERE is clearly something in the school dinners at St Wilfrid's School because The Feeling were formed after three members met while at school there.
Kevin Jeremiah, Ciaran Jeremiah and Paul Stewart are from Horsham but it was at the Southgate secondary school that they first struck a chord.
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.
Eugene Sully
BIG Brother 6 runner-up Eugene burst onto our screens wearing nothing but a fig leaf.
One of three late comers to the series, he spent several days in a "secret garden" before being introduced to the contestants in the main house.
The loveable scamp was a firm favourite with the public and narrowly missed out on winning the series.
Now a DJ on Uckfield FM, he has a passion for radio and indeed radios – a passion which saw him chase after two thieves near his Pound Hill home last year.
One of the pair had snatched handheld radios from the front seat of his car as he unloaded it late at night.
Eugene grabbed his bicycle and raced after them, catching up with one and wrestling his jumper off him, despite being repeatedly punched in the face. The jumper proved pivotal in securing a conviction for theft after police took the thief's DNA from it.
2D from The Gorillaz
THE fictional character 2D, voiced by Blur frontman Damon Albarn, has a back story which includes that he grew up in Crawley, having been born in Hertfordshire.
Although he's not real, he has managed to sell millions of albums along with bandmates Murdoc Nicalls, Noodle and Russel Hobbs, which we think makes him worthy of inclusion.
Before joining the Gorillaz, 2D was working in a keyboard shop when Murdoc deliberately drove his Vauxhall Astra through the wall in an attempt to ram-raid it.
Murdoc's bumper crashed into 2D's face, putting him into a deep catatonic state.
As part of his sentence for theft Murdoc was forced to care for 2D.
A year later, in a failed attempt to impress some women in a Tesco car park, Murdoc crashed his car, throwing 2D through the windscreen and knocking him out of his coma.
That's some back story!
Ms Dynamite
A LOT of people probably don't realise that musician Ms Dynami-tee-hee was actually born in Crawley, because she grew up in Camden and spent much of her teens in Hackney.
Her real name is Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley, so it's no wonder she adopted a stage name.
The hip hop and R&B artist has won the Mercury Music Prize, two BRIT Awards and three MOBO Awards.
Originally a member of the So Solid Crew, her debut solo album, A Little Deeper, received critical acclaim.
Dan Walker
BORN in Crawley, he supports Crawley Town and is perhaps qualified to give tuition to Dusty Springfield, being the son of a preacher.
Dan has never worked on or played sport on a Sunday as a result of his faith.
He once revealed in an interview that he turned down youth contracts with several football teams due to games being scheduled for Sundays.
Now a sports journalist, he is the presenter of the BBC's Saturday football show Football Focus. Reported by This is 1 day ago.