•As a former world heavy weight champion, Frank Bruno
was a hit all around Great Britain.
•Bruno was known for his hard and fast
punches.
Michael, Eddie, Faye Joanne, and Angela are his brothers
and sisters, he is the youngest of them.
Franklyn Roy Bruno was born in Hammersmith hospital,
London.
By Sam and
Jonty
Naomi Campbell was born in may 1970. Naomi’s mum was a fashion model
and a designer. Naomi herself became a super model and was said that she
was one of the most beautiful women in the world. Naomi spent two years
on the Paris catwalk and made it on to some of the French magazine covers
and then some pictures of her went in to a American magazine. She was 15
when she started to be a model.
Naomi has also appeared in films with people
like Antonio Banderas and Sophia Loren. She
became the favourite model of all the designers.
She was a model for 12 years.
By Charlotte and Rhiannon
• Colin Jackson was the all
time world record holder for
the 110m hurdles.
• After a brilliant junior career,
he won his first major medal in
1986.
• He set his world record at a
world championship in
Stuttgart in 1993.
By Ben and
Elizabeth.
•He is the Blackburn manager and
former MK Dons manager.
•Paul is so famous he used to play for
West Ham and Manchester United.
•Paul Ince was in the England squad for
the European cup
Paul Ince
By Alistair and Tom
•Paul Ince was the first black captain.
•Denise Lewis is a superb runner and was the British woman
athlete of the year in 1996.
•She won a gold medal at the European and Commonwealth
Games and in 1999 she was 12 points short of a
Commonwealth record.
•She was born in 1972 in West Bromwich (UK) and in the 2000
Olympics she ran 100 metres hurdles in 13.23 seconds.
•She ran the 200 metres in 24.10 seconds, her best long jump
was 6.69 metres, she threw the shot put at 16.12 metres.
Information on Zadie Smith
• Zadie Smith was born in 1975.
More information on Zadie Smith
•Zadie Smith is an author.
• Zadie Smith writes really
good books and lovely
poems.
• Zadie’s mother was Jamaican and her father
was British.
• Zadie Smith started writing poems and short
stories at the age of six.
• Writing wasn’t her only interest because from
the age of five through to fifteen she enjoyed
tap-dancing.
• As a teenager she enjoyed watching
musicals.
• When Zadie was a teenager she had a
dream to have a career to be in front of a
camera.
By Hannah and Rachel
• Lewis Hamilton was named after an American sprinter Carl Lewis.
• At the age of ten he approached his first F1 racing team. Now he is just about to finish
his second championship.
• Lewis Hamilton was the youngest Briton to win an F1 race.
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton
•Jeremy played
for England rugby
team in centre
and was
nicknamed
prince of centres.
•His first game was
against Romania,
scoring a hat-trick
in 1989.
•Jeremy was a
successful player
winning again and
again.
•Jeremy was
born in Bath
and played for
his home team,
and in the end
he played for
England rugby
club.
Nelson was born in Transkei
which is a place in South Africa
Nelson’s dad, Chief Henry
Mandela, was a a leader of the
Tembu tribe.
His favourite breakfast is plain
porridge!
He thought it was wrong that
black people and white people
were treated differently and tried to
make a difference to how people
were treated but ended up being
sent to prison.
Nelson is now 90 years old!
He was imprisoned on Robin Island.
Click on the sound button to
hear a song that the fans of
Nelson Mandela sang to free him
out of Prison.
• Rudolph Walker was
an amazing actor.
• Rudolph was the first
black person to star in
a television series.
• He plays the role of
Patrick in Eastenders.
• Rudolph Walker
arrived in Britain in
1960.
•Kelly Holmes was born in Kent.
•Her Father was Jamaican and her mother was English.
•Kelly Holmes started training for athletics at the age of
12.
•But at the age of 18 Kelly turned her back on her dream
and decided to join the British Army.
•Kelly Holmes also did a bit of Judo in the Army.
•Kelly Holmes then decided to fulfil her dream to be come
a British Athlete.
•Kelly Holmes won 3 Bronze, 5 Silver and 4 Gold Olympic
medals in her athletic career!!!
•Kelly Holmes retired in 2005 on the 6th of December.
Craig David
•Craig David is the youngest UK
black male to have a number 1
R&B music single
•Craig David has won many awards and
won a national song writing competition
at the age of 16.
•Craig David is our world
ambassador for urban music. His
two albums are now multi-million
sellers.
•Craig David is working on his third
album at the moment.
•The singer Seal
was born in London
with a Brazilian
mother and Nigerian
father
Seal and his
children.
•Seal is a famous award winning singer
and songwriter
•After he graduated he took various jobs
including electrical engineering and designing
leather clothing
By Alice & Charlotte