Ronnie Biggs

Ronnie Biggs is one of those figures where I feel genuinely conflicted, and I think that tension is the point. He helped plan the 1963 Great Train Robbery, then turned a brazen 1965 prison break into a 36-year life on the run, mostly in Brazil, complete with publicity stunts and a flirtation with music. There's no glamorizing the crime, yet his story became British folklore in spite of itself. What stays with me is the ending: returning to the United Kingdom in 2001, choosing prison and rapid decline over freedom abroad before his death in 2013. To me he's a study in how notoriety and consequence eventually collide.

Name (English)

Ronnie Biggs

Name (Japanese)

ロナルド・ビッグズ

Reading

ろなるど・びっぐず

Born

August 8, 1929 – December 18, 2013

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Origin

Lambeth, United Kingdom

Occupation

carpenter / autobiographer / robber / singer / screenwriter

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3%82%BA

Tags

• carpenter
• autobiographer
• robber

Last updated

2026-06-02

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