On 11 September 2001, Rick Rescorla, a chief security officer at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, originally from Hayle and a rugby man, sang Cornish rugby songs on his megaphone to keep morale high as he was evacuating over 2,000 employees of Morgan Stanley from the WTC's Second Tower.
The church at Phillack near Hayle is dedicated to Saint Felec (as he appears in a 10th-century Vatican codex).
John Pollard, former student, former Deputy Head and now Councillor for Hayle North and leader of Cornwall Council