There are many famous people from Portadown, artists, TV presenters, sporting heroes and war heroes.
One of the most famous is Gloria Hunniford who has been a TV and radio star for decades and appears on many top shows such as Loose Women, This Morning and The One Show.
Also actors Richard Dormer and Jude Hill, war heroes Anne Acheson and Dr Isobel Addey Tate, sporting heroes Rory Best, Mary Peters and Ronnie McFall as well as many talented individuals.
Also actors Richard Dormer and Jude Hill, war heroes Anne Acheson and Dr Isobel Addey Tate, sporting heroes Rory Best, Mary Peters and Ronnie McFall as well as many talented individuals.
12. Sam McGredy
Sam McGredy, born in Portadown in 1932, was the fourth generation of rose breeders and regarded as one of the world's greatest. For him, a rose had to combine appearance and fragrance. He won many of the great international rose prizes in Ireland, Britain, Europe, Asia and Australasia. He managed to get the thumbs up from Picasso to name a rose after him and the Queen Mother also gave her blessing for a rose to be named after her Elizabeth of Glamis. Sam, whose father died when was 2 years old, was educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, Greenmount Agricultural College in Co Tyrone and Reading University. In 1972 he emigrated to New Zealand as he found it highly suitable for rose breeding. Photo: freelance