Jailbirds

[SeaJayPea]

Hi all, I could do with suggestions for famous people who've been sent to jail - the likes of Archer, Aitken, Tony Adams etc.
All contributions gratefully received

Thanks in advance

[saxy_jag]

Benjamin Zephaniah, Johnnie Vaughan, Gary Glitter, James Brown ...

[A Chill Wind]

Stephen Fry.

[shammydodger]

Before or since they became famous, or doesn't it matter?

Oscar Wilde
George Best
Naseem (Tw@t) Hamed
Guido Fawkes (!)

[gerry]

Ricky Tomlinson
David Dickinson
Robert Downey Jr

[suffragette]

Jonathan King in the UK and Martha Stewart in the USA.

[suffragette]

Ooh, just remembered, Sophia Loren for tax evasion.

[jno]

Nelson Mandela

[jno]

PS shammy, I don't think Guy Fawkes (if he's the one you mean) actually went to jail, did he?

[shaneystar2]

Lester Piggot

[SeaJayPea]

You're all absolute stars. Thank you so much

[galaxy]

Duncan Ferguson

[Simeon]

You've all forgotten Mike Tyson!

[shammydodger]

jno

It was a slightly irreverent answer. Although the Tower of London, where he was taken and tortured, was certainly a jail.

But on reflection, I'll disallow that answer myself because he wasn't famous for anything other than the incident for which he was imprisoned.

[shammydodger]

jno

And he signed his own name, both prior to and subsequent to being tortured, as "Guido Fawkes", although the second signature was, understandably, a barely-legible scrawl.

[jno]

I've seen that, shammy; impressive, and not in a nice way. But the point I was really making is that being held for questioning isn't usually thought of as 'being sent to jail'.

As for his first name, it just briefly occurred to me you might have meant this fairly well known, er, guy, so I thought I'd better check:

http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/