Notable people who have had some connection with Tilbury include: two football players, John Evans (1929–2004), who played for Liverpool, and Tom Scannell (1925–1994); Noel Betowski, artist, who was born there in 1952; Thomas Horrocks Openshaw (1856–1929), who was a consultant surgeon at Tilbury Hospital; and actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje whose childhood being raised there by foster parents is documented in the movie Farming .