Are there any famous people from the Kingswood area? All I can think of is those girls from Bananarama who lived in Downend…

Singer Songwriters Roger Cook  and Roger Greenaway(I'd like to teach the world to sing) of David and Johnathan and Blue Mink in the '60s and '70s
Professor Sir Bernard Lovell inventor of the Radio telescope (Jodrell Bank)
ProfessorColin Pillinger Space scientist ( first person in UK to handle Moon rocks when working at Bristol University)
Rev Andrew Radford Bishop of Taunton
All of the above except Roger Cook attended Kingswood Grammar school now Kingsfield.
You don't have toi be a pop star to be famous

Wikipedia has a category for People From Kingswood. Besides Paul Potts (mentioned above), it lists David Burnside (footballer, b. 1939) and Larissa Hope Wilson (actress, b. 1989). Sir Bernard Lovell is not included, as he was born in Oldland Common. The football manager Ian Holloway was born in Cadbury Heath in 1963. Another footballer, Jack Smart, was born in Kingswood in the late 19th century.