Clark (born 1952), ex Dire Straits keyboard player Brendan Foster (born 1948), ex athletics 10,000 m record holder Frances Hardcastle (1866–1941), mathematician and women's activist Richard Harpin (born 1964), businessman Graeme Lowdon (born 1965), businessman and entrepreneur Alan Milburn (born 1958), politician Chris Paisley (born 1986), professional golfer Sir Richard Pease, 3rd Baronet (born 1922), banker Ethel Williams (1863–1948), physician and suffragist References Villages in Northumberland