Paul Bruce Dickinson was born on August 7th, 1958 in the small English town of Worksop, United Kingdom. Worksop is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located 19 miles east-south-east of Sheffield, close to Nottinghamshire's borders with South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, on the River Ryton and not far from the northern edge of Sherwood Forest.