Walk of Fame

The Bristol Walk of Fame

The Bristol Walk of Fame at Bristol Zoo celebrates and features 49 of the city’s most renowned people, places and icons from across the historic, creative, sporting and wildlife spectrum. The Bristol Walk of Fame is a trail of specially-designed plaques within the grounds of the Zoo, with each plaque bearing the names of famous inductees.

See how many famous names you can spot on your next trip to the Zoo!

Walk of Fame inductees for 2012

In December 2011 and January 2012 we asked our website visitors to vote for their top ten favourites from a shortlist of 41 names to be added to the Walk of Fame in 2012. The 10 new inductees voted in are: Bristol Rovers FC; Bristol City FC; Rosie & Wendy the elephants that used to live at Bristol Zoo; cricketer Marcus Trescothick; founder of CLIC Sargent, Bob Woodward; Darth Vader actor, David Prowse, Olympic ice skater, Robin Cousins; snooker-player, Judd Trump and Bristol Zoo’s summer art project, Wow! Gorillas.

Each year an honorary icon is also inducted, exempt from the public vote, and this year’s honorary icon is Sir George White, founder of the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

How it all began

A list of 80 candidates was compiled following an appeal for suggestions from the public. This list was as varied as it was interesting and included the likes of Banksy, Massive Attack, Justin Lee Collins, Tony Robinson and the Wurzels. The public voted for their 20 favourites over the space of 30 days via Local Press, Radio and on the Zoo’s website. Over 2,000 voters took part and after a tightly fought contest, the 39 famous people, places and icons were inducted alongside 10 honorary inductees.

Each year the list will be reviewed and the public will have the chance to vote more famous faces and places onto the Bristol Walk of Fame.

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The Bristol Walk of Fame was launched in association with Mama Bears Day Nursery.