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Manchester & the Northwest Region of England

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Including Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford & Wigan

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Celebrities & Famous People
Manchester, Lancashire and the Northwest Region

Local Manchester Heroes....and a few Villains!

Manchester and the northwest region of Lancashire have produced more than their fair share of famous people - pioneers, explorers, scientists, philanthropists, artists, composers, social and political reformers, media celebrities - all local heroes.
Their names are immotalised throughout the region - in place names, streets, districts, townships and squares, statues and monuments, libraries, schools and institutions which still bear their names.

Andrew "Freddy" Flintoff - England and Lancashire Cricketer
Andrew "Freddy" Flintoff
England Cricketer

Annie Kenny - Women's Suffragette
Annie Kenny
Suffragette

Ben Kingsley, Actor
Ben Kingsley
Actor

Dame Wendy Hiller
Actress

James Stannage, DJ and Broadcaster
James Stannage
DJ-Broadcaster

Daniel Craig actor, James Bond
Daniel Craig
Actor

Frank Hampson
Illustrator & Cartoonist

Nick Robinson, Political Commentator
Nick Robinson
Journalist-Broadcaster

Howard Jacobson - Novelist
Howard Jacobson
Novelist

The Arts: Written, Visual & Performance

William Harrison Ainsworth
Samuel Bamford
Walter Greenwood
Anthony Burgess
Isabella Banks
Benjamin Brierley
Frances Hodgson Burnett
John Byrom
John Collier (Tim Bobbin)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Walter Greenwood
Thomas de Quincey
Shelagh Delaney
Richmal Crompton
Peter Maxwell-Davies
Elizabeth Raffald
Charles Prestwich Scott
L S Lowry
Joe Sunlight
Edgar Wood
Robert Bolt
Alan Garner
Kathleen Ferrier
Maurice Johnstone
James Hilton
John Critchley Prince
Samuel Hill
Harry Rutherford
Walter Kershaw
Louise Jopling
Arthur Devis
Josef Locke
John Cassidy
Matthew Noble
Terry Eagleton
Walter Crane
Frank Hampson
Howard Jacobson

Nicholas Hytner
Pierre Adolphe Valette
Ford Madox Brown
Alfred Waterhouse
Thomas Worthington
John Knowles
Sir John Barbirolli
Sir Charles Hallé
Charles Alexander Calvert
George Formby
Gracie Fields
Annie Horniman
William Stanley Houghton
Harold Riley
Russell Watson
Sir Norman Foster
Sir William Walton
George Lockhart
Hans Richter
Howard Spring
Sir Neville Cardus
John Ralston
Sir Thomas Beecham
Lawrence Isherwood
Edwin Waugh
Francis Thompson
Samuel Laycock
Michael Ball
Roger Fenton
Mike Leigh
Nick Park
Henry Hall
James Lamb
Ralph Sweeney
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Anna Jacobs
Francis Lennon
Ronnie Hazlehurst

Politicians, Law & Social Reformers

Sir Nicholas Mosley
James Stanley
Charles Worsley
Robert Owen
Thomas Fleming
Sir Robert Peel
Mark Philips
Abel Heywood
Friedrich Engels
Richard Cobden
John Bright
Emmeline & Christabel Pankhurst
Chaim Weizmann
Margaret Beckett
Hugh Scanlon
Ernest Marples
Henry Hunt
Lloyd George
Sir Cyril Smith
Gerald Kaufman MP
Hannah Mitchell
Joe Gormley
Joseph Rayner Stephens
Alf Morris
Armitage, Sir Elkanah
Lees Knowles, Sir James
Alistair Campbell
Michael Meacher
Ernest Jones
Reginald Richardson
William Gladstone

John Fielden
Oswald Mosley
Barbara Castle
Jack Straw
Mitchell Henry
Annie Kenney
Nellie Wilkinson
Sir James Anderton
Jerome Caminada
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Arthur Balfour, PM
James Brotherton
John Owens
Thomas Ashton
John Fielden
John Shuttleworth
Archibald Prentice
Absalom Watkin
John, Richard, Thomas & William Potter
John Edward Taylor
Hugh Birley
Ellen Wilkinson
Robert Duckenfield
Harry Pollitt
Estelle Morris
Davies, Thomas
Neil Hamilton
John Stalker
William Hulton
Feargus O'Connor
Glenda Jackson
Hazel Blears

Philanthropy, Philosophy & Religion

Lady Ann Bland
Hugh Oldham
Sir Humphrey Chetham
William Hulme
John Rylands
Joseph Whitworth
Lord Ernest Simon
Thomas la Warre
John Bradford
Mary Moffat
Michael Levy
Thomas Henshaw

Thomas Deacon
Edward Barlow (Saint Ambrose Barlow)
Laurence Vaux
James Prince Lee
James Fraser
Sir Ashton Lever
Cardinal William Allen
Joseph Livesey
Terry Waite
Kirsty Howard
Richard Mather

Discovery, Engineers, Inventors & Scientists

Samuel Crompton
Richard Arkwright
Sir William Fairbairn
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater
Sir Frederick Henry Royce
Daniel Adamson
George Bradshaw
John Dee
Marie Stopes
William Crabtree
Charles White
Thomas Percival
John Ferriar
Peter Mark Roget
John Dalton
William Sturgeon
Sir Roger Bradshaigh
Sir Henry Roscoe
James Hargreaves
Hans Geiger
Charles Mackintosh
Thomas Highs
John Mercer
Robert Hope-Jones
JJ Thomson

John Dancer
James Prescott Joule
Sir Edwin Alliot Verdon-Roe
Ernest Rutherford
Captain Sir John Alcock
Lieutenant Sir Arthur Brown
James Brindley
John Kay
Prof Tom Kilburn
Rev George Garrett
Alan Turing
Sir Bernard Lovell
Colonel Sir William Coates
Robert Angus Smith
Roy Chadwick
Dr Patrick Steptoe
Edmund Cartwright
George Stephenson
Lawrence Earnshaw
William Webb Ellis
Thomas Earnshaw
Sir James Chadwick
James Bullough
Professor Eric Laithwaite
George Leigh Mallory

Television, Film, Media & Broadcasting

Joan Bakewell
John Thaw
Harry H Corbett
Caroline Aherne
Will Hay
Stuart Hall
Bernard Manning
Robert Donat
Warren Clarke
Brian Redhead
Les Dawson
Roy Kinnear
Eric Sykes
Eric Morecambe
Eddie Large
Mike Harding
Frank Finlay
Albert Finney
Robert Powell
Ben Kingsley
David Warner
Robert Shaw
Burt Kwouk
Bill Oddie
Tommy Cannon
Bobby Ball
Alistair Cooke
Mike Yarwood
Joanne Whalley (Kilmer)
Victoria Wood
Peter Skellern
Pete Postlethwaite
Coronation Street Characters
Fred Dibnah
Sir Ian McKellen
John Mahoney
Steve Coogan
Hylda Baker
Al Read
Ralf Little
Will Mellor
Philip Schofield
Sarah Lancashire
Ted Ray
David Coleman
Roy Skelton
Jonathan Morris
Colin Baker
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Jane Horrocks
Jimmy Clitheroe
Wendy Hiller
Anna Ford
Judith Chalmers
Jim Hancock
Diane Oxberry
Jenni Murray
Martin Henfield
Lynda Lee-Potter
Don Estelle
Jimmy Cricket
Jon Culshaw
Kerry McFadden
Ray Gosling
Dave Spikey
Shirley Stelfox
David Starkey
Colin Crompton
Sue Johnstone
Tracie Bennett
Danny Ross
Kathy Staff
James Stannage

Bernard Wrigley
Frank Randle
Dora Bryan
Arthur Lowe
Terry Christian
Ian McShane
Johnny Vegas
Matthew Kelly
David Dickinson
John E Blakeley
Maggie Philbin
Paula Wilcox
Anna Friel
Lord Sidney Bernstein
Mike Sweeney
Dominic Monaghan
Richard Madeley & Judy Finnigan
Bob Greaves
Gordon Burns
Jimmy Saville
Violet Carson
Pat Pheonix
Melanie Sykes
Ronald Fraser
Kieran Prenderville
Peter Kay
Vivien Merchant
John Thomson
Michael Wood
Lynda Baron
Bill Grundy
Tim Grundy
Charles Foster
Colin Weston
Jim Pope
Bob Smithies
Mike Scott
Nicholas Hytner
Sara Cox
Dame Thora Hird
Natalie Casey
Christopher Eccleston
Max Beesley
Jack Wild
Tony Gubba
Bernard Cribbins
Ben Gerrard
Nick Conway
Vernon Kay
Janet Munro
Eric Knowles
Chris Evans
Bernard Hill
Andy Kershaw
Lucy Meacock
Felicity Goodey
John Mundy
Danny Boyle
Judi Dench
John Peel
Katie Derham
Ted Lune
Jim Bowen
Tess Daly
Timmy Mallett
John Inman
Buzz Hawkins
Freddy 'Parrot Face' Davies
Glenda Jackson
Daniel Craig
Simon Rimmer
Nick Robinson
James H Reeve
Hovis Presley

Sporting & Olympic Champions

Alfred Edward Tysoe
Jackie Brown
George Wilkinson
Emil Robert Voigt
Sybil Newall
Ben Jones
Harold Hardman
Max Woosnam
Rex Crummack
Douglas Lowe
Harold Walden
James Borland
William Roberts
June Croft
Sunny Lowry
John Amaechi
Amir Khan
Carl Fogarty
Bill Beaumont
Paula Radcliffe
Stanley Matthews
Ricky Hatton

Reg Harris
Manchester Footballers
Mike Atherton
Fred Perry
John Virgo
Billy Dean
John Henry Osborne
Henry Taylor
John Ephraim Sibbert
Frank Tyson
Diane Modahl
Darren Campbell
Peter Kane
Chris Boardman
William Webb Ellis
Stephen Parry
Tom Finney
Jason Queally
David Lloyd
Geoff Duke
Billy Nevett
Andrew "Freddy" Flintoff

Manchester's Pop Music
See separate entry

Business, Commerce, Industry & Entrepreneurship

Fred Duerr
J J Kearns
J D Williams
Arthur Brooke
James Allcock
Charles Dreyfus
James & Henry Forsyth
Paul Hauser
John Holden
Josiah Hardman
Joseph Holt
Sir William Mather
Hugh Mason
Sir William Pickles Hartley
Robert Gillow
Charles Mackintosh
Samuel Ogden
Sir Willam Veno

Henry Duffy
John Stanier
Ernest Broadbelt
Marks & Spencer
Thomas Kendal
Shami Ahmed
Eddie Shah
Samuel Oldknow of Mellor
Samuel Brooks
Charles Tennant
Sir Edward Holt
John Whittaker
John Mayall
Sir Henry Tate
Nicholas Kilvert
Charles Roe
Samuel Greg

Military & Civilian Heroes

Ensign Charles Ewart
Mark Addy
Bill Speakman VC
George Peachment VC
Henry Kelly VC MC
Issy Smith VC JP
Edward Colquhoun Charlton VC
James Leach
Graham Thompson Lyall VC
Ernest Sykes VC
Wilfred Wood VC
Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory
John Beeley VC

William Horace Taylor GC
Percy Walton GC
Joanna Toff QGM
John Henry Code DCM
James Kirk VC
Harry Norton Schofield VC
Albert Hill VC
Joel Halliwell VC
William Thomas Forshaw VC
Andrew Moynihan VC
John Buckley VC
Chris Finney GC

Manchester Villains

Myra Hindley
Ian Brady
Dr Harold Shipman
The Manchester Martyrs
Ann Britland
Louisa May Merrifield

John Jackson
Lieutenant Frederick Rothwell Holt
Louie Calvert
Dr Buck Ruxton
Margaret Allen
James Inglis

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Celebrities & Famous People Manchester, Lancashire and the Northwest Region

Local Manchester Heroes....and a few Villains!

Celebrities & Famous People
Manchester, Lancashire and the Northwest Region