War. He was instrumental in developing Valley Parade into a modern all seater stadium. Sam Riley – (born 8 January 1980) English actor and singer. Born in Menston. William Riley – (1866–1961) English novelist. He was born in Laisterdyke, Bradford. Sir Henry William Ripley, 1st Baronet – (23 April 1813 – 9 November 1882) British businessman, philanthropist and politician. Vinette Robinson – (born 1981) actress, born in Bradford. Sir William Rothenstein – (1872–1945) English painter, draughtsman and writer on art, born in Bradford. David Roper actor,b.1944 Simon Rouse – (b.1951)actor Verity Rushworth – (born 1985) actress, born in Bradford, who is best known for her role as Donna Windsor-Dingle in the ITV1 soap Emmerdale. Albert Rutherston – (1881–1953) born in Bradford, and was a painter of figures and landscapes, book illustrator and designer of posters and stage sets. S Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet – (1803–1876) manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford. Leslie Sands – (1921-2001) actor Boris Schapiro – (22 August 1909 – 1 December 2002) British international bridge player. He was a Grandmaster of the World Bridge Federation, and the only player to have won both the Bermuda Bowl (the world championship for teams) and the World Senior Pairs championship. George Adolphus Schott – (1868–1937) mathematician, born in Bradford. He is best known for developing the full theory of radiation from electrons travelling at close to the speed of light. Alfred Angas Scott – (1875–1923) motorcycle designer, inventor and founder of the Scott Motorcycle Company. Born in Bradford. Charles Semon – (1814–1877) became the first foreign and Jewish mayor of Bradford in 1864, and was instrumental in forming The Jewish Association of Bradford in 1873. Len Shackleton – (1922–2000) footballer, born in Bradford. Known as the Clown Prince of Football, he is generally regarded as one of English football's finest ever entertainers. William Shackleton – (1872–1933) painter of subject pictures and landscapes. Born in Bradford. Studied at Bradford Grammar School and Bradford Technical College and was awarded a Royal Exhibition to the Royal College of Art in 1893. Abraham Sharp – (1653–1742) mathematician and astronomer, born in Horton Hall, Little Horton. Calculated pi to 72 places of decimals. John Sharp – (1643–1714) born in Bradford and became the Archbishop of York. Professor David Sharpe – founded the Bradford Burns Unit after he received many of the burns victims from the Bradford Fire Disaster in 1985. Harold Watkins Shaw,