Natives of Manchester
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This is a list of people from Manchester, a city in North West England
North West England
North West England, informally known as The North West, is one of the nine official regions of England.North West England had a 2006 estimated population of 6,853,201 the third most populated region after London and the South East...

. The demonym
Demonym
A demonym , also referred to as a gentilic, is a name for a resident of a locality. A demonym is usually – though not always – derived from the name of the locality; thus, the demonym for the people of England is English, and the demonym for the people of Italy is Italian, yet, in english, the one...

 of Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

 is Mancunian. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:
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  • Caroline Aherne
    Caroline Aherne
    Caroline Mary Aherne is an English comedian and BAFTA winning writer and actress, best known for Mrs Merton and The Royle Family.- Background :...

     - BAFTA award winning actress, comedian and writer; The Mrs Merton Show
  • Daniel Adamson
    Daniel Adamson
    Daniel Adamson was a notable English engineer who became a successful manufacturer of boilers and was the driving force behind the inception of the Manchester Ship Canal project during the 1880s.-Early life:...

     (1820–1890): engineer born in Durham who designed the Manchester Ship Canal
    Manchester Ship Canal
    The Manchester Ship Canal is a river navigation 36 miles long in the North West of England. Starting at the Mersey Estuary near Liverpool, it generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire. Several sets of locks lift...

    . Adamson was one of the directors of the Manchester chamber of commerce and a Justice of the Peace
    Justice of the Peace
    A justice of the peace is a puisne judicial officer elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. Depending on the jurisdiction, they might dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions...

     for Cheshire and Manchester. He was buried in Withington
    Withington
    Withington is a suburban area of the City of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies south of Manchester city centre, about south of Fallowfield, north-east of Didsbury, and east of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near the centre-to-south edges of the Greater Manchester Urban Area; in the...

    .
  • Chris Addison
    Chris Addison
    Chris Addison is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4...

     - Stand-up comedian, writer and actor.
  • Mark Addy
    Mark Addy (Albert Medal)
    Mark Addy AM was a publican and champion oarsman, from Manchester, England who was awarded the Albert Medal , and a number of other honours, for the rescue of over 50 people from the then highly-polluted River Irwell in the 19th century...

     (1840–1890): Manchester-born Albert Medal recipient.
  • William Harrison Ainsworth
    William Harrison Ainsworth
    William Harrison Ainsworth was an English historical novelist born in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket...

     - A historical novelist born in Manchester.
  • Sir John Alcock - Aviator who, with fellow British aviator Arthur Brown, made the first nonstop transatlantic flight
  • Don Arden
    Don Arden
    Don Arden , born Harry Levy, was an English music manager, agent and businessman, best known for overseeing the careers of rock groups Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath....

     - Cheetham Hill
    Cheetham Hill
    Cheetham Hill is an inner city area of Manchester, England. As an electoral ward it is known as Cheetham and has a population of 12,846. It lies on the west bank of the River Irk, north-northeast of Manchester city centre and close to the boundary with the City of Salford...

    -born music manager and businessman, best known for overseeing the careers of rock groups Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones...

     and Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...

    .
  • Rob Atha
    Rob Atha
    Rob Atha is a table football/foosball player from the UK, currently ranked 3rd in the world and regularly ranking in the top 5 of the International Table Soccer Federation rankings...

     - Table football
    Table football
    Table football, also known as gitoni or foosball, is a table-top game and sport that is loosely based on association football.-Names:...

     player.
  • Michael Atherton - former England cricket team captain and commentator.

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  • Max Beesley
    Max Beesley
    Maxton Gig Beesley Jr. , known simply as Max Beesley, is an English actor and musician.Beesley rose to fame for his role of Andy Simpson in Every Woman, Every Man from 1993 to 1998, and has since appeared in a variety of television shows including Bodies, Hotel Babylon, London Ink, Survivors and...

     - English actor and musician.
  • Wes Brown
    Wes Brown
    Wesley Michael "Wes" Brown is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Sunderland. Before joining Sunderland, Brown had spent his entire career at Old Trafford, having joined the Manchester United youth team in 1996...

     - Manchester United
    Manchester United F.C.
    Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...

     footballer
  • Anthony Burgess
    Anthony Burgess
    John Burgess Wilson  – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...

     (1917–1993): Manchester-born and eductaed author, poet, playwright, musician, linguist, translator and critic, most famous for his novel A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork Orange
    A Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess. The novel contains an experiment in language: the characters often use an argot called "Nadsat", derived from Russian....

    .

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  • Darren Campbell
    Darren Campbell
    Darren Andrew Campbell MBE is a former English sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres, as well as the 4 × 100 metres relay...

     - Former sprinter representing Great Britain.
  • John Cassidy
    John Cassidy (artist)
    John Cassidy , Irish sculptor and painter, was born in Littlewood Commons, Slane, County Meath. He moved to Dublin at the age of 20 to find work. In Dublin he attended art classes at night and won a scholarship to study in Milan, Italy...

    , an Irish
    Irish people
    The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

    -born sculptor and painter who lived in Manchester.
  • Sir Humphrey Chetham
    Humphrey Chetham
    Sir Humphrey Chetham was an English merchant, responsible for the creation of Chetham's Hospital and Chetham's Library, the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.- Life :...

    , merchant and benefactor of Chetham's Library
    Chetham's Library
    Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom. Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham , for the education of "the sons of honest,...

    . Born in Crumpsall.
  • Richard Cobden
    Richard Cobden
    Richard Cobden was a British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League as well as with the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty...

     (1804–1865): Sussex-born industrialist who moved to Manchester where he was politically active.
  • Roy Collins
    Roy Collins
    Roy Collins was an English cricketer. Collins was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born at Clayton, Lancashire.-Lancashire:...

     (1934-2009), cricketer who played for Lancashire and Cheshire. Born in Clayton.
  • Peter Cundall
    Peter Cundall
    Peter Cundall, AM is a horticulturalist, conservationist, author, broadcaster and television personality in Australia. He currently lives in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, and until the age of 81 continued to be a presenter of the ABC TV program Gardening Australia. His last show aired on 26 July 2008...

     OA
    Order of Australia
    The Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"...

    , a horticulturist and television presenter born in Manchester.
  • Ian Curtis
    Ian Curtis
    Ian Kevin Curtis was an English singer and lyricist, famous for leading the post-punk band Joy Division. Joy Division released their debut album, Unknown Pleasures, in 1979 and recorded their follow-up, Closer, in 1980...

     musician and singer in Joy Division
    Joy Division
    Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...

    .

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  • Les Dawson
    Les Dawson
    Leslie "Les" Dawson was a popular English comedian remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.-Life and career:...

     - Comedian born in Collyhurst
    Collyhurst
    Collyhurst is a locality in Manchester. It is 1½ miles northeast of Manchester city centre, on Rochdale Road and Oldham Road. The River Irk passes through the area...

  • Mark Davies - Bishop of Shrewsbury
    Bishop of Shrewsbury
    The Bishop of Shrewsbury is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury in the Province of Birmingham, England.The diocese covers an area of of the counties and unitary authorities of Cheshire, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin with parts of Derbyshire, Halton, Merseyside, Greater...

    .
  • Arthur Delaney
    Arthur Delaney
    Arthur McEvoy Delaney was an English painter whose scenes of Manchester life were influenced by those of L. S. Lowry, gaining some popularity since his death.He is alleged to be the illegitimate son of comedian Frank Randle...

     - A painter influenced by L. S. Lowry
    L. S. Lowry
    Laurence Stephen Lowry was an English artist born in Barrett Street, Stretford, Lancashire. Many of his drawings and paintings depict nearby Salford and surrounding areas, including Pendlebury, where he lived and worked for over 40 years at 117 Station Road , opposite St...

    .
  • Lee Dixon
    Lee Dixon
    Lee Michael Dixon is a former English professional footballer born in Manchester.He formed part of the Arsenal defence from the late 1980s, through till 2002. He was capped 22 times for England, scoring once....

     - Former professional footballer and current pundit on Match of the Day
    Match of the Day
    Match of the Day is the BBC's main football television programme. Typically, it is shown on BBC One on Saturday evenings during the English football season, showing highlights of the day's matches in English football's top division, the Premier League...

    .

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  • Judy Finnigan
    Judy Finnigan
    Judith "Judy" Finnigan is a British television presenter and columnist. She has usually co-presented with her husband, Richard Madeley, and the two are collectively known, informally, as Richard and Judy...

     - Television presenter and columnist. She has usually co-presented with her husband, Richard Madeley
    Richard Madeley
    Richard Madeley is a British television presenter and columnist. With his wife Judy Finnigan, Madeley has presented This Morning and later the weekday chat show Richard & Judy...

    , and the two are collectively known, informally, as Richard and Judy
    Richard and Judy
    Richard and Judy is the name informally given to Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, a married couple who are both British television presenters and columnists. Since their marriage, their television appearances have been largely made as a couple. They are best known for presenting This Morning and...

    .

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  • Liam Gallagher
    Liam Gallagher
    William John Paul "Liam" Gallagher is an English musician and singer-songwriter, the former frontman of the English rock band Oasis and currently of the band Beady Eye. Gallagher's erratic behaviour, distinctive singing style, and abrasive attitude have been the subject of commentary in the press...

     - lead singer of Manchester band Oasis
    Oasis (band)
    Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...

    . Born in Burnage.
  • Noel Gallagher
    Noel Gallagher
    Noel Thomas David Gallagher is an English musician and singer-songwriter, formerly the lead guitarist, backing vocalist and principal songwriter of the English rock band Oasis. He is currently fronting his solo project, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.Raised in Burnage, Manchester with his...

     - songwriter and lead guitarist for Manchester band Oasis. Born in Burnage.
  • Jimi Goodwin
    Jimi Goodwin
    Jimi Goodwin is the bassist, vocalist and guitarist for Doves. Before their incarnation as Doves, the three members were a dance-club music trio called Sub Sub....

     - The bassist, vocalist and guitarist for The Doves.
  • Trevor Griffiths
    Trevor Griffiths
    Trevor Griffiths is an English dramatist.Raised as a Roman Catholic, he attended Saint Bede's College, before being accepted into Manchester University in 1952 to read English...

     - dramatist, co-writer of screenplay for the film Reds. Born in Ancoats

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  • Howard Jacobson
    Howard Jacobson
    Howard Jacobson is a Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.-Background:...

     - a Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.

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  • Brian Kidd
    Brian Kidd
    Brian Kidd is an English football coach and former player, who is currently Assistant Manager to Roberto Mancini at Manchester City....

     - An English football coach, (currently assistant manager at Manchester City) and former player. He was assistant manager to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United in the 1990s was a member of the Manchester United team that won the European Cup in 1968. Born in Collyhurst.
  • Burt Kwouk
    Burt Kwouk
    Burt Kwouk OBE , born Herbert Kwouk, is an English actor of Chinese descent, known for many television appearances and for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films.-Career:...

     - English actor of Chinese descent, famous for his role as Kato in The Pink Panther
    The Pink Panther
    The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bungling French police detective Jacques Clouseau that began in 1963 with the release of the film of the same name. The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers...


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  • Harold Lever
    Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester
    Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester, PC was a barrister and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom....

     - Labour
    Labour Party (UK)
    The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

     politician and Baron Lever.
  • Martin Lewis
    Martin Lewis (financial journalist)
    Martin Steven Lewis is journalist, television presenter, website entrepreneur and author in the United Kingdom, who specialises in ways to save money...

     - Withington
    Withington
    Withington is a suburban area of the City of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies south of Manchester city centre, about south of Fallowfield, north-east of Didsbury, and east of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, near the centre-to-south edges of the Greater Manchester Urban Area; in the...

    -born financial journalist who founded the MoneySavingExpert.com
    MoneySavingExpert.com
    MoneySavingExpert.com is a British consumer finance information and discussion website founded and owned by financial journalist Martin Lewis in February 2003 with the aim of providing information and journalistic articles enabling people to save money....

     website.
  • David Lloyd George
    David Lloyd George
    David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...

     - Born in Chorlton-in-Medlock who was British Prime Minister during the First World War and member of the Liberal
    Liberal Party (UK)
    The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

     party.
  • Sunny Lowry
    Sunny Lowry
    Ethel "Sunny" Lowry MBE was the first British woman to swim the English Channel.Lowry, a student at Manchester High School for Girls and a keen swimmer from a young age, joined the Victoria Ladies Swimming Club of Victoria Baths, Longsight, Manchester...

     - Longsight-born swimmer who was the first British woman to swim the English Channel
    English Channel
    The English Channel , often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover...

    .

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  • Bernard Manning
    Bernard Manning
    Bernard John Manning was an English comedian and nightclub owner. He was born and raised in Manchester in northwest England....

     - Ancoats
    Ancoats
    Ancoats is an inner city area of Manchester, in North West England, next to the Northern Quarter and the northern part of Manchester's commercial centre....

    -born stand-up comedian.
  • Johnny Marr
    Johnny Marr
    Johnny Marr is an English musician and songwriter. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths, with whom he formed a prolific songwriting partnership with Morrissey. Marr has been a member of Electronic, The The, and Modest Mouse...

     - an English songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player, and singer. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths
    The Smiths
    The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...

  • Ian McShane
    Ian McShane
    Ian David McShane is an English actor, director, producer, voice artist, and comedian.Despite appearing in numerous films, McShane is best known for his television roles, particularly the BBC's Lovejoy and HBO's Western drama Deadwood...

     - an English actor who grew up in Manchester
  • Steven Patrick Morrissey - singer in The Smiths
    The Smiths
    The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...

    . Born in Davyhulme.
  • Daniel Moult
    Daniel Moult
    Daniel Moult is a concert organist, organ tutor and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music.-Education:Daniel Moult was born in Manchester, England. He attended Manchester Grammar School and St John’s College, Oxford, where he was organ scholar...

     - Concert organist, organ tutor and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music.
  • Gary Mounfield
    Gary Mounfield
    Gary Manny "Mani" Mounfield , is an English rock bassist of The Stone Roses and Primal Scream. He has a distinctive playing style that combines a fast moving rock style with a dance rhythm or dub groove...

     - "Mani" is a bassist, formerly of The Stone Roses and currently in Primal Scream.

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  • Doug Naylor
    Doug Naylor
    Douglas R. Naylor is a British comedy writer, science fiction writer, director and television producer.Naylor was born in Manchester, England and studied at the University of Liverpool. In the mid-1980s, Naylor wrote two regular comedy sketch shows for BBC Radio 4 entitled Cliché and Son of Cliché...

     - Comedy writer, perhaps best known for creating the comedy series Red Dwarf
    Red Dwarf
    Red Dwarf is a British comedy franchise which primarily comprises eight series of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and Dave from 2009–present. It gained cult following. It was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, who also wrote the first six series...

    .

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  • Emmeline Pankhurst
    Emmeline Pankhurst
    Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement which helped women win the right to vote...

     - Suffragette
    Suffragette
    "Suffragette" is a term coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for members of the late 19th and early 20th century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union...

     Born Moss Side.
  • Karl Pilkington
    Karl Pilkington
    Karl Pilkington is a British podcaster, author, television personality and former radio producer. He is best known for the Sky travel series, An Idiot Abroad, which was also presented in the United States on the Science Channel, in Canada on Discovery Channel and in Australia on One HD, and The...

     - Podcaster, author and TV presenter, known for his work with Ricky Gervais
    Ricky Gervais
    Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, radio presenter, producer, musician, and writer.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator...

  • John Charles Polanyi
    John Charles Polanyi
    John Charles Polanyi, PC, CC, FRSC, O.Ont, FRS, born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics. Polanyi was educated at Manchester University, and did postdoctoral research at the National Research Council in Canada and...

     - A chemist, raised in Manchester, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics.

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  • Thomas de Quincey
    Thomas de Quincey
    Thomas Penson de Quincey was an English esssayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater .-Child and student:...

     (1785–1859) was born in Manchester. An author and intellectual, he is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life...

    (1821).

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  • Marc Riley
    Marc Riley
    Marc Riley is a British musician, alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC 6 Music. Formerly a member of The Fall, he had his own record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger...

     - British musician, alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC 6 Music
    BBC 6 Music
    BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's digital radio stations, was launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years....

    . Formerly a member of The Fall, he had his own record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger.
  • Andy Rourke
    Andy Rourke
    Andy Rourke is a bass guitarist best known for being a former member of The Smiths.-Career:...

     - A bass guitarist best known for being a former member of The Smiths
    The Smiths
    The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...

    .
  • Shaun Ryder
    Shaun Ryder
    Shaun William Ryder, aka X, is an English musician, occasional newspaper columnist, actor, author, singer-songwriter and television personality, best known as lead singer for Happy Mondays and Black Grape – and more recently as the runner-up of the 2010 version of the British TV Show I'm a...

     - vocalist and songwriter with the Happy Mondays
    Happy Mondays
    Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass, lead guitarist Mark Day, keyboardist Paul Davis, and drummer Gary Whelan...

     who became famous in the Madchester
    Madchester
    Madchester was a music scene that developed in Manchester, England, towards the end of the 1980s and into the early 1990s. The music that emerged from the scene mixed alternative rock, psychedelic rock and dance music...

     era.

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  • Peter Saville - Manchester-born artist and designer, best known for his work with Factory Records
    Factory Records
    Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside and James and...

    .
  • Nobby Stiles
    Nobby Stiles
    Norbert "Nobby" Peter Stiles MBE is a retired English footballer. He was born in Collyhurst, Manchester.Stiles played for England for five years, winning 28 caps and scoring 1 goal. He played every minute of England's victorious 1966 FIFA World Cup campaign...

     MBE - Collyhurst
    Collyhurst
    Collyhurst is a locality in Manchester. It is 1½ miles northeast of Manchester city centre, on Rochdale Road and Oldham Road. The River Irk passes through the area...

     - An English former football midfielder. Stiles, Bobby Charlton and Ian Callaghan are the only Englishmen to have won both World and European Cups.
  • Bernard Sumner
    Bernard Sumner
    Bernard Sumner , also known as Bernard Dickin, Bernard Dicken and Bernard Albrecht is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player and producer....

     - An English singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player and producer, best known as a founding member of two bands, Joy Division
    Joy Division
    Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...

     and New Order
    New Order
    New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...


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  • John Thaw
    John Thaw
    John Edward Thaw, CBE was an English actor, who appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles, his most popular being police and legal dramas such as Redcap, The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC.-Early life:Thaw came from a working class background, having been born in Gorton,...

     - actor best known for his roles in The Sweeney
    The Sweeney
    The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London...

    , Inspector Morse
    Inspector Morse (TV series)
    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....

    and Kavanagh QC
    Kavanagh QC
    Kavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. It has been shown on ITV3 as recently as August 2011; series 1–6 are available on Region 2 DVDs....

    . Born in Gorton, raised in Burnage.
  • J. J. Thomson
    J. J. Thomson
    Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson, OM, FRS was a British physicist and Nobel laureate. He is credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer...

     - a physicist and Nobel laureate, credited with the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. He was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and his work on the conduction of electricity in gases.

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  • Danny Welbeck
    Danny Welbeck
    Daniel Nii Tackie Mensah "Danny" Welbeck is an English footballer who plays for Manchester United and the England national football team. He is a centre forward who can also play on the wing....

     - Footballer who currently plays for Manchester United.
  • Danny Webber
    Danny Webber
    Daniel Vaughn "Danny" Webber is an English football striker who is a free agent following his release from Portsmouth....

     - Professional footballer, currently with Premiership team Portsmouth.
  • Andy Williams
    Andy Williams
    Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...

     - The drummer and vocalist of The Doves.
  • Jez Williams
    Jez Williams
    Jez Williams is the guitarist/songwriter of Doves. He was born in Manchester, England, and he is also the twin brother of bandmate Andy...

     - The guitarist/songwriter of The Doves.
  • Michael Wood
    Michael Wood
    Michael David Wood is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous television documentary series, has made over 80 documentary films, most notably, Great Railway Journeys , Art of the Western World, Legacy: A Search for the Origins of Civilization, In the Footsteps of Alexander...

     - Historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous television documentary series, has made over 80 documentary films.
  • Alan Wren
    Alan Wren
    Alan John Wren , better known as Reni, is the drummer of The Stone Roses.Reni is considered by many to be the best drummer of his generation and the "single most important drummer in UK indie circles." According to former Hacienda General Manager Howard Jones, he "played the drums like Hendrix...

     - Known as Reni, he was the drummer of The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s...

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