What famous western people live in Thailand?

[ttthailand]

Who are the famous people from around the world that call Thailand home ? Has any famous western actors, doctors, writers, businessmen, rock stars have Thai wives or live here full or part time? I just wonder if this country really attracts the cream or is it just the common man and lady who come and live here .....

I know many visit but who stays ....

Just wondering

[Kudel]

None of them ,ore just a few wash outs and former friends of jimmy saville....

[Oceanbat]

Marc Faber lives in Chiang Mai

OB

[bill1369]

Other than me, I could careless.

[daveAustin]

George

Seagal pops his head in to jam with Aed Carabao on occasion and can speak a bit of Thai, unless I heard wrong. Though hardly famous, Cummings is here. Beckham and Beyonce, et al, holiday here.

[ttthailand]

Bangkok is a huge city and has history, Phuket has some very nice beaches and on the higher end of tourist areas as some would say.... You would think that these features would attract more famous people... Or would you ?

Why don't more come to stay?

[Oceanbat]

Bangkok is a huge city and has history, Phuket has some very nice beaches and on the higher end of tourist areas as some would say.... You would think that these features would attract more famous people... Or would you ?

Why don't more come to stay?

High tax rates. Politically unstable. Closed and relatively shallow financial system.

OB

[arthurwait]

Rambo.

[ttthailand]

Rambo.

Stallone ? Really ?

[HeijoshinCool]

There's lots of people who become famous after moving to Thailand.

They're called pedophiles.

[Chonburiram]

Mikhail Pletnev,

Russian pianist, conductor, composer... a few has-been football players/trainers

[Aussieroaming]

Jimmy Barnes - Cold Chisel is married to a Thai

[fey]

there are some really nice pads in phuket that you would need to be famous in some capacity to afford. many listed in sotherbys international realty.

not sure who actually ends up living in these places though.

[kannot]

Bangkok is a huge city and has history, Phuket has some very nice beaches and on the higher end of tourist areas as some would say.... You would think that these features would attract more famous people... Or would you ?

Why don't more come to stay?

Because there are much better first world paradise places to go.

[Thaiberius]

Plenty holiday, almost zero live. I don't understand why anybody would tie up a lot of capital in Thailand.

[wooloomooloo]

Brian Jacks lives near Pattaya. All round decent guy.

[Thaiberius]

there are some really nice pads in phuket that you would need to be famous in some capacity to afford. many listed in sotherbys international realty.

not sure who actually ends up living in these places though.

Is that the same Phuket where thousands have been ripped off in various timeshare and new development scams over the past few decades?

[fish fingers]

Quite a few famous fraudsters in Phuket ..I hear Damien Hirst has a villa there

[kannot]

From memory a few "die" in Thailand

[slipperylobster]

colonel sanders and also a distant brother to Adolf...

[kannot]

Brian Jacks lives near Pattaya. All round decent guy.

Who??????

[Thaiberius]

Brian Jacks lives near Pattaya. All round decent guy.

Who??????

Some bloke who used to be good at judo who was shagging a pretty tidy swimming bird. Famous for five minutes sometime during the last century.

[krisb]

Tim.

[raymp]

Jimmy Page from Led Zepplin spends a lot of time in Pattaya.

When there he plays guitar in a blues club.

I can't recall the name of it.

[lazygourmet]

Belgian singer and music poducer Lou Deprijck lives in Pattaya...

[rickthailand]

they dont they would like to OWN the land they buy!!

rick

[pinkpanther99]

I'm pretty sure Andy McNab lives in Thailand

[Loptr]

Tim.

The topic was famous foreigners, not infamous thugs...

[Rooo]

Moved to.................

[BigBadGeordie]

I'm pretty sure Andy McNab lives in Thailand

For sure he does, and he still has the amazing ability to change his appearance (it seems at will). For I have met/seen/heard him talking in many many Pattaya bars.

Thought he would have been a little more low profile though.