Epsom, Ewell, Banstead and Leatherhead have been home to many notable people - some of them more famous than others.

Here are just a few of them, and a selection of the coverage the Epsom Guardian has given them over the years.

Can you think of any we have missed?

BBC Radio 2 show host Jeremy Vine was born in Epsom and attended Epsom College before starting a successful media career.

He recently visited the hospital he was born in to officially open a new training facility at Epsom General Hospital.

From December: Strictly Come Dancing star Jeremy Vine praises Epsom and Ewell Talking Newspaper for bringing news to the blind

From March: BBC Radio 2 Presenter Jeremy Vine opens new training facility Elena Power Simulation Centre at Epsom Hospital

Epsom-born cricketer Alec Stewart had the unusual distinction of captaining, opening the batting and keeping wicket for his national team.

Since retiring in 2003, Stewart has remained involved with his domestic club, Surrey Cricket Club, serving as interim head coach between June 2013 and February 2014, before taking over as Director of Cricket.

From January: Ashtead Cricket Club to host Alec Stewart question and answer session

From February: Surrey tie up deal to make New Malden a home away from home

Warwick Davis, most famous for his role as the Ewok Wicket in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, was born in Epsom.

Since answering a radio advert calling for people 4 foot tall and under to star in Star Wars Episode 6, he has had a glittering film and TV career, including starring in the Harry Potter franchise, and dragging Karl Pilkington to Italy, India and China in An Idiot Abroad.

From October: Epsom-born actor Warwick Davis has touring caravan stolen from Cambridgeshire home

From April 2015: See Warwick Davis do his best Yoda impression

Spiderman star Andrew Garfield’s family traded Los Angeles for Epsom when he was just three, and he studied at the Priory Preparatory School in Banstead and the City of London Freemen’s School in Ashtead.

The 32-year-old ‘superhero’ started his career on the stage and smaller parts in film and television, before shooting to fame and fortune for big roles in The Social Network and the 2012 reboot of The Amazing Spiderman.

From April 2014: Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield is hometown hero in Banstead, Ashtead and Epsom

Led Zeppelin axeman Jimmy Page first played the guitar in Epsom, according to a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

The mastermind behind the riffs to Whole Lotta Love, Immigrant Song and Stairway to Heaven, found an abandoned guitar in his childhood house.

From October 2014: From Epsom choir boy to rock legend: Jimmy Page releases photographic autobiography

Oscar winner and Leatherhead resident Sir Michael Caine is the star of many classic films, including Zulu, The Italian Job, and Escape to Victory.

Sir Michael is also patron to the Leatherhead Drama Festival, which takes place between May 2 and May 14 this year.

From March 2013: Leatherhead Drama Festival patron Sir Michael Caine proud to be made freeman of London

Banstead resident Danny Murphy lived every young boy’s dream of playing for his boyhood club – in his case, Liverpool.

While at Anfield, he won the treble of the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup in 2001.

He also played for Blackburn Rovers, Tottenham Hotspur and Charlton Athletic during his career and now serves as a pundit on the BBC’s Match of the Day.

Former Prime Minister John Major was born at St Helier Hospital.

He served as Leader of the Conservative Party between 1990 and 1997, and was elected as PM in 1992.

During his premiership he led a “back to basics” campaign against sleaze, privatized British rail, and opened talks with the IRA.

From March: Brexit campaign sheer folly, says Sir John Major

The girl who named the dwarf planet Pluto grew up to be a teacher at Wallington County Girls’ School and in later life volunteered with the Friends of Epsom Hospital.

She suggested the name ‘Pluto’ to her grandfather in 1930, who then forwarded the idea to his friend, a Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, who then forwarded the idea by telegram to Lowell Observatory in Arizona.

The astronomers there were delighted and adopted the name.

From May 2009: Former Sutton and Epsom teacher Venetia Burney, who named Pluto, dies

Epsom-born Petula Clark starred in more than 30 films and recorded dozens of singles in French, German, and Italian, as well as English.

She got her big break while on a visit to the BBC at the age of nine, when she stepped in to settle a jittery audience unnerved by an air raid during World War Tw by singing  ‘Mighty Lak’ a Rose’.

From March: Epsom Pizza Express goes Downtown with Petula Clark makeover

Harlequins and England Number 8 Nick Easter was born in Epsom.

Easter became the first Number 8 to score four tries in one match for England, when he did so against Wales in a World Cup warm-up game at Twickenham in 2007.

From December: Nick Easter: Eddie Jones can help England rediscover their identity

Little Britain creator, Britain’s Got Talent judge and British Channel swimmer David Walliams spent his formative years in Banstead.

He was educated at Collingwood Boys' School in Wallington, and the independent Reigate Grammar School in Surrey.

From September 2012: David Walliams to promote new book in Leatherhead

From March: David Walliams's Gangsta Granny proves to be fun for all the family

Surrey geography features heavily in apocalyptic sci-fi writer HG Wells, and for a period in the 1890s he lived and wrote in Worcester Park.

Banstead is a destination in his novel The Time Machine, and Leatherhead is destroyed in The War of the Worlds.

From March 2012: Steampunks hit Sutton

‘The People’s Champion’ Jimmy ‘Whirlwind’ White currently resides in Epsom.

White is a six-time World Championship finalist, two-time World Cup winner, and two-time British Open winner.

From January 2015: 'Cue Boy' Jimmy White slammed for parking on double yellow line in Epsom

From April 2015: Snooker Whirlwind Jimmy White's house to be auctioned - but he's not leaving Epsom
 

Outnumbered star Tyger Drew-Honey was born in Epsom and attended Epsom College.

Drew-Honey starred as Jake Brockman in the BBC sitcom, and since 2014 has presented his own documentary series on BBC Three.

From November: Outnumbered is set for a return as creators plan a one-off special

From May 2015: Up All Night stars Dionne Bromfield and Tyger Drew-Honey reveal their holiday nightmares

“Some people are on the pitch… They think it’s all over… It is now!”

These were the immortal words uttered by former West Ewell and Worcester Park resident Kenneth Wolstenholme as Sir Geoff Hurst smashed in England’s fourth goal to see off West Germany in the 1966 World Cup Final.

Wolstenholme lived in Worcester Park while working as a commentator for the BBC as well as near Epsom and Ewell FC for many years.

Having cut his teeth in the Epsom and Ewell youth team in the mid-1980s, Chris Powell went on to play for Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace, West Ham United and many others.

The author of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, a domestic household guide from the 19th century, spent much of her early life within the racecourse grounds at Epsom Downs.

Isabella Beeton’s (nee Mayson) father died when she was just four years old, and so she helped her mother raise her siblings, referring to them as her “living cargo of children”.

She was married at St Martin’s Church in Church Street, Epsom in 1855.