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Five UK number ones, two BRIT Awards and more than ten million records sold. The story starts with a Bretton schoolboy who wanted to play football, and a Saturday night impression of Michael Jackson.

From a school drama club in Walton to Apple TV, Netflix and the BBC, Luke Pasqualino has spent almost twenty years as one of the most recognisable faces to come out of Peterborough.

Born in Peterborough in 1997, Rene Matić is an internationally recognised artist, photographer, writer and poet whose work examines contemporary Britain through intimate images of family, friendship, subculture, faith and queer life.

Michael Stonebank, known professionally as Stonebank, is a Peterborough-born DJ, songwriter and electronic music producer. Best known for his long association with the Canadian record label Monstercat, he has built an international following through high-energy releases spanning UK hardcore, electro house, drum and bass, dubstep, hardstyle and melodic electronic music.

Born in Peterborough, Rich Simmons is a self-taught contemporary artist whose vividly coloured work combines pop art, comic books, street culture, punk energy and social commentary. His career has taken him from designing T-shirts and running creative workshops to international exhibitions, major murals and museum displays.

Peterborough-born Jodie Turner-Smith followed an unconventional route from finance and corporate banking to modelling, independent cinema and major international productions, becoming one of the most distinctive British screen actors of her generation.

Adrian Lyne is a Peterborough-born film director, producer and screenwriter whose work helped define the look and mood of mainstream cinema in the 1980s and 1990s.

Neil Hubbard is one of British popular music’s most respected guitarists. From his formative years as a Peterborough Cathedral chorister and King’s School pupil, his precise, soulful playing carried him into Bluesology, Juicy Lucy, the Grease Band, Kokomo, Roxy Music and an exceptional catalogue of session work.

Gray Jolliffe is a British illustrator and cartoonist whose distinctive humour and visual style have made him a recognisable figure in British publishing and popular culture. Born Graham Jolliffe in 1937, he studied at The King’s School in Peterborough before...

Ernie Wise, one half of the legendary comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, had a quiet but meaningful connection to Peterborough.

Edmund Hockridge was an internationally acclaimed singer and actor with deep roots in Peterborough.

Born in Peterborough in 1978, Jake Humphrey went from CBBC to anchoring BBC Formula One, Premier League football, and the High Performance Podcast.

Born Andrew Ivan Bell in Peterborough in 1964, Andy Bell rose to international fame as the lead singer of synth-pop duo Erasure.

Born Keith Andrew Palmer in Peterborough, Maxim developed his voice in the city’s reggae sound-system culture before becoming the commanding MC and vocalist of The Prodigy. Alongside his international music career, he has established a separate body of work as a painter, mixed-media artist and sculptor.

Peterborough-born Larry Taylor was one of British cinema’s dependable character actors and stunt performers, building a screen career that stretched from post-war films to international productions made in South Africa.

Born in Peterborough, Paul Nicholas is an actor, singer, director and producer whose career has moved remarkably freely between pop music, landmark West End musicals, film, television comedy and theatre production. From playing Jesus and the Rum Tum Tugger to winning a BAFTA as Vince Pinner, he has remained a familiar presence in British entertainment for more than six decades.

Born in Peterborough, Eric Dodson was a versatile British character actor whose warm, authoritative presence made him a familiar face on television and film from the 1960s through the 1980s.

From a working-class Peterborough childhood and an engineering apprenticeship to concert halls, film studios and broadcasts heard across wartime Europe, James Blades OBE transformed the place of percussion in British musical life.