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This is a list of people from Manchester , a city in
North West England . The
demonym of
Manchester is Mancunian or Manc . This list is arranged alphabetically by surname. For people from Greater Manchester see
List of people from Greater Manchester .
Daniel Adamson (1820–1890) – engineer born in Durham who designed the
Manchester Ship Canal ; one of the directors of the Manchester chamber of commerce;
Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and Manchester; buried in
Withington
[1]
Chris Addison – stand-up comedian, writer and actor
[2]
Mark Addy (1840–1890) – Manchester-born Albert Medal recipient
[3]
Caroline Aherne (1963–2016) –
BAFTA Award -winning actress, comedian and writer,
The Mrs Merton Show
[4]
William Harrison Ainsworth – historical novelist born in Manchester
[5]
Sir John Alcock – aviator who, with fellow British aviator Arthur Brown, made the first nonstop transatlantic flight
[6]
Adam Anderson – synthesist, one half of synth-pop duo
Hurts
Don Arden –
Cheetham Hill -born music manager and businessman, who oversaw the careers of rock groups
Small Faces ,
Electric Light Orchestra and
Black Sabbath
[7]
Anthony Arthur (born 1973) – Olympic weightlifter (1996 Summer Olympics)
[8]
George Arthurs (1875–1944), songwriter and author
[9]
Rob Atha –
table football player
[10]
Mike Atherton – former
England cricket captain and commentator
[11]
Norman Beaker – born Norman Hume in 1950 in
Longsight ,
blues guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, band leader and record producer, officially recognised and inducted as a Legend in the
Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.
[12]
[13]
William Worby Beaumont (1848–1929) – automotive engineer and inventor
Max Beesley – English actor and musician
[14]
Niamh Blackshaw – actress, known for portraying
Juliet Nightingale in
Hollyoaks
[15]
Stan Bowles – born and brought up in
Collyhurst ;
Manchester City ,
QPR ,
Nottingham Forest and
England International footballer in the 1970s
Maud Boyd (1867–1929) – actress and operatic singer
Edward Brotherton (1814–1866), English
Swedenborgian and educational reform campaigner
Joe Brown – born in Ardwick, climber and mountaineer
Wes Brown – former
Manchester United footballer
[16]
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) – Manchester-born and educated author, poet, playwright, musician, linguist, translator and critic, known for novel
A Clockwork Orange
[17]
Darren Campbell – former sprinter representing Great Britain
[18]
Thomas George Cassell – YouTuber and Twitch streamer
[19]
John Cassidy –
Irish -born sculptor and painter who lived in Manchester
[20]
Tom Chantrell – designer of many
film posters including
The Sound of Music and
Star Wars
[21]
Sir Humphrey Chetham – merchant and benefactor of
Chetham's Library ; born in Crumpsall
[22]
Saira Choudhry (born 1982), actress, born in Cheetham Hill
[23]
Stanley Chow – artist and illustrator
[24]
Oliver Claffey (born 1990) – professional wrestler
Richard Cobden (1804–1865) – Sussex-born industrialist who moved to Manchester, where he was politically active
[25]
Kenneth Colley – actor who played
Admiral Piett in
The Empire Strikes Back and
Return of the Jedi
Roy Collins (1934–2009) – cricketer who played for Lancashire and Cheshire; born in Clayton
[26]
Verona Conway (1910–1986), plant ecologist
[27]
George Cooke (1826–1862), cricketer
Mary Corkling , artist and food reformer, was born at
Withington , Manchester, in 1850.
Lisa Cross (born 1978) – IFBB professional bodybuilder
Kevin Cummins – award-winning professional photographer, responsible for iconic
Joy Division photographs and for charting the rise of
punk rock and
Britpop , born in
Withington
Peter Cundall (1927–2021) – horticulturist and television presenter; born in Manchester
[28]
Ian Curtis (1956–1980) – musician and singer in
Joy Division
[29]
Mark Davies –
Roman Catholic Bishop of Shrewsbury
[30]
Aaron Davis (born 1990) – better known by his stage name
Bugzy Malone ,
rapper and
actor , first artist in the
grime genre from Manchester to commercially succeed in the UK
[31]
Les Dawson – comedian, born in
Collyhurst (1931–1993)
Arthur Delaney – painter influenced by
L. S. Lowry
[32]
Lee Dixon – former professional footballer and ITV Sport football pundit
[33]
DJ Semtex – disc jockey and presenter for
BBC Radio 1Xtra digital radio station, presenting the flagship hip-hop show Friday Nights
[34]
Robert Donat – film and stage actor; known for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's
The 39 Steps and
Goodbye, Mr. Chips , for which he won an
Academy Award for Best Actor[
citation needed ]
Edith Escombe – fiction writer and essayist
[35]
Rachel Fairburn – popular comedian and one half of the well known true crime serial killer comedy podcast All Killa No Filla
Judy Finnigan – television presenter and columnist; usually co-presents with her husband,
Richard Madeley ; they are collectively known as
Richard and Judy
[36]
Wayne Fontana – singer with
The Mindbenders
[37]
Norman Foster – architect; founder and chairman of
Foster and Partners studios; raised in Levenshulme
Dean Furman (born 1988) – professional footballer
Liam Gallagher – lead singer of Manchester band
Oasis
[38]
Noel Gallagher – songwriter and lead guitarist for
High Flying Birds and formerly Oasis
[38]
George Garrett – submarine pioneer who built
Resurgam ; brought up in
Moss Side
[39]
Michael Bisping – UFC Middleweight Champion
Max George – member of boy band
the Wanted
Andy Gibb – singer, teen idol and actor; born in
Stretford
Barry Gibb – singer and musician, member of the
Bee Gees ; brought up in
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Maurice Gibb – singer and musician, member of the Bee Gees; brought up in
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Robin Gibb – singer, member of the Bee Gees; brought up in
Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Jimmy Golder – professional association footballer
Jimi Goodwin – bassist, vocalist and guitarist for
the Doves
[40]
Holliday Grainger – actress; known for portraying
Lucrezia Borgia in Showtime's
The Borgias
Trevor Griffiths – dramatist, co-writer of screenplay for the film
Reds ; born in Ancoats
[41]
Nick Grimshaw – Manchester-born Radio 1 DJ
[42]
Andrew Hall – Cheshire cricketer
[43]
Arthur Harden – Manchester-born Nobel Prize–winning biochemist
[44]
Benjamin Heywood (1793–1865) – prominent Manchester citizen, philanthropist and politician
[45]
Oliver Heywood – banker and philanthropist
[46]
Bernard Hill – film, stage and television actor, known for playing
Yosser Hughes in
Boys from the Blackstuff and roles in blockbuster films, including
Titanic ,
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and
True Crime
[47]
Ray Honeyford – headmaster and writer, known for highlighting the failures of multiculturalism in Bradford
[48]
Keith Hopwood –
Herman's Hermits guitarist, born in
Davyhulme
Shotty Horroh – well known rapper, singer and actor
[49]
Myra Hindley –
Gorton -born serial killer who, along with her accomplice,
Ian Brady , claimed the lives of five victims in Manchester in the 1960s
Peter Hook – bassist of the bands
Joy Division and
New Order
[50]
[51]
Mick Hucknall – lead singer of the band
Simply Red
[52]
Nat Jacobs – amateur and professional boxer
[53]
Howard Jacobson –
Man Booker Prize -winning British Jewish author and journalist, best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters
[54]
Davy Jones – actor; singer of the band
The Monkees
[55]
Michelle Keegan – actress on
Coronation Street
Brian Kidd – football coach; assistant manager at
Manchester City since December 2009; former player; assistant manager to
Alex Ferguson at Manchester United in the 1990s; member of the Manchester United team that won the European Cup in 1968; born in Collyhurst
[56]
Frank "Foo Foo" Lammar – drag queen, born in Ancoats
[57]
Harold Lever –
Labour politician and Baron Lever
[58]
Emmanuel Levy (1900–1986) – painter, teacher and art critic
Martin Lewis –
Withington -born
[59] financial journalist who founded
MoneySavingExpert.com
Harvey Lisberg – music and sporting manager who discovered
Herman's Hermits
David Lloyd George – born in Chorlton-in-Medlock;
[60] British Prime Minister during the
First World War ; member of the
Liberal Party
Sunny Lowry – Longsight-born
[61] swimmer who was the first British woman to swim the
English Channel
Bernard Manning –
Ancoats -born stand-up comedian
[62]
Sir
Ernest Marples –
Postmaster-General and Minister of Transport; born in
Levenshulme
[63]
Johnny Marr – songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player and singer, rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in
The Smiths
[64]
Ian McShane – actor who grew up in Manchester[
citation needed ]
Peter Mellor (born 1947) – English-born American footballer and coach
[65]
Mohyeldeen Mohammad – Islamist activist who studied in Saudi Arabia prior to his deportation
[66]
Steven Patrick Morrissey – singer-songwriter in
The Smiths ,
[67] writer and poet. Born in
Davyhulme ,
[68] the singer rose to fame in the 1980s as the flamboyant frontman of rock band
The Smiths
Daniel Moult – concert organist, organ tutor and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music
[69]
Gary Mounfield – "Mani", bassist, formerly of
The Stone Roses and later in
Primal Scream
[70]
Doug Naylor – comedy writer, known for creating the comedy series
Red Dwarf [
citation needed ]
Matt O'Connor – gender equality activist and found of
Fathers 4 Justice
[71]
Nigel Osborne – composer, teacher and aid worker
Jason Orange – singer, songwriter, dancer, former member of
Take That
Emmeline Pankhurst –
suffragette ,
[72] born in Moss Side
Duncan Perry – cricketer
Anshel Pfeffer – journalist
Karl Pilkington – podcaster, author and television presenter; known for his work with
Ricky Gervais
[73]
Fee Plumley – digital artist
[74]
John Charles Polanyi – chemist, brought up in Manchester; won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical kinetics
[75]
Simon N. Powell (born 1955) – born in Manchester; cancer researcher and radiation oncologist
[76]
Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) – born in Manchester; author and intellectual; known for his
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
[77]
Marcus Rashford – footballer; plays for
Manchester United and the
England national team
Lee Rigby – of the 2nd Battalion of the
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers ; originally from
Middleton , Greater Manchester; Lee, whilst off-duty and walking back to barracks,
was killed by two Islamic extremists on 27 May 2013 as a terror attack
Marc Riley – musician; alternative rock critic and radio DJ on
BBC 6 Music ; former member of
the Fall ; had his own record label, In-Tape; also worked as a record plugger
[78]
Andy Rourke – bass guitarist best known for being a former member of
the Smiths
[79]
Lee Rourke – novelist best known for The Canal , Vulgar Things and Glitch
James Rowley – cricketer
Shaun Ryder – vocalist and songwriter with the
Happy Mondays
[80] who became famous in the
Madchester era
[81]
Peter Saville – Manchester-born artist and designer, best known for his work with
Factory Records
[82]
Ceallach Spellman – actor and presenter
John Squire – guitarist with the Stone Roses
Paul Stenning – author, brought up in
Davyhulme
Nobby Stiles – born in
Collyhurst , former football midfielder Stiles, Bobby Charlton and Ian Callaghan are the only Englishmen to have won both World and European Cups
[83]
Bernard Sumner – singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player and producer, best known as a founding member of two bands,
Joy Division and
New Order
[64]
John Thaw – actor; known for his roles in
The Sweeney ,
Inspector Morse and
Kavanagh QC ;
[84] born in
Longsight , brought up in
Burnage
Katie Thistleton – CBBC presenter and Radio 1 DJ
John Thomas – recipient of the
Victoria Cross
Edmund Thomson – cricketer and British Army officer
J. J. Thomson – physicist and Nobel laureate; credited with the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer; awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and his work on the conduction of electricity in gases
[85]
Shayne Ward – singer who won the
second series of
The X Factor
Mabel Tylecote – adult educationnist
Simon Webbe – singer/songwriter. Member of boyband
Blue
Danny Webber – footballer, formerly of Manchester United and
Sheffield United
Danny Welbeck – footballer who plays for
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
[86]
Sir
Joseph Whitworth
[87]
Andy Williams – drummer and vocalist of the
Doves
[40]
Jez Williams – guitarist/songwriter of the Doves
[40]
Tony Wilson – co-founder of
Factory Records and
Granada Reports reporter
Michael Wood – historian and broadcaster; has presented numerous television documentary series, and made over 80 documentary films
[88]
Alan Wren – known as Reni; drummer of
The Stone Roses
[89]
Katie Zelem – footballer for
England
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