List of personalities of the city of Manchester
The following is a list of Manchester- born personalities, listed chronologically by year of birth. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Manchester. Many of them moved from Manchester in the course of their lives and became known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Manchester Born Personalities
Until 1850
- Ann Lee (1736–1784), founder of the American Free Church of the Shakers
- William Henry (1774-1836), chemist
- Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), writer, essayist and journalist
- Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890), civil servant
- Alfred Julius Becher (1803–1848), music critic and participant in the Vienna October Uprising of 1848
- William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), writer
- William Rathbone Greg (1809-1881), writer and social philosopher
- Lydia Becker (1827–1890), women's rights activist
- Henry Wilde (1833-1919), engineer
- William Thierry Preyer (1841-1897), physiologist
- Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924), chess master
- William Thierry Preyer (1841-1897), physiologist
- Ernest Preyer (1842–1917), painter and author
- Louis Eysen (1843–1899), landscape and portrait painter
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), writer
- John Hopkinson (1849–1898), physicist and electrical engineer
1851 to 1900
- Elihu Thomson (1853–1937), electrical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur
- Eduard Arning (1855–1936), dermatologist and leprosy researcher
- Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- Edwin Mackinnon Liebert (1858–1908) British-German painter
- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), theorist, suffragette and suffragette
- John George Adami (1862-1926), pathologist
- William Lorimer (1861–1934), politician
- Richard Gottheil (1862–1936), Semitist and professor of rabbinical literature
- David Lloyd George (1863–1945), politician
- Arthur Harden (1865-1940), chemist
- Elliott Woods (1865-1923), architect
- John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (1873–1954), lawyer and politician
- John Derbyshire (1878-1938), swimmer and water polo player
- Alfred Ambler (1879–?), Football player
- Peter Blackmore (1879–?), Football player
- Alice Bailey (1880–1949), theosophist, esotericist and author
- John Foulds (1880–1939), composer
- Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), suffragette
- Jack Reynolds (1881–1962), soccer player and soccer coach
- Harry Edwin Wood (1881-1946), astronomer
- Harry Bateman (1882-1946), mathematician
- Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), activist in the suffragette movement
- Gerald Boland (1885–1973), politician
- Charles Forsyth (1885–1951), water polo player
- Frank Kingdon-Ward (1885–1958), plant collector
- George Zucco (1886–1960), film and stage actor
- William Dean (1887-1949), water polo player
- Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967), archaeologist
- Lawrence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976), artist
- George Anderson (1891-1959), football player
- Harold Laski (1893–1950), political scientist, economist, author and lecturer
1901 to 1925
- Douglas Lowe (1902-1981), track and field athlete
- George Coulouris (1903-1989), actor
- Robert Donat (1905–1958), actor
- Max Catto (1907-1992), writer
- Ernest Marples, Baron Marples (1907–1978), Minister and Building Contractor
- Syd Cozens (1908–1985), track cyclist
- Winston Graham (1908-2003), writer
- Brian Easdale (1909–1995), composer and conductor
- Helmut Kramer (1910–2011), theologian
- Alfred Robens (1910–1999), trade union official, politician and industrial manager
- James Borland (1910-1970), ice hockey player
- Paul Dehn (1912–1976), screenwriter and film producer
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912–2014), mathematician and politician
- John William Sutton Pringle (1912-1982), zoologist
- Alf Ainsworth (1913–1975), football player
- Marjorie Deane (1914-2008), business journalist
- Brenda de Banzie (1915–1981), actress
- Marghanita Laski (1915–1988), journalist and writer
- Michael Dunlop Young (1915–2002), sociologist and politician
- Anthony Burgess (1917–1993), writer and composer
- Brenda Milner (* 1918), psychologist
- Jack Boothway (1919-1979), football player
- Tony Crook (1920–2014), racing driver
- Lee Elias (1920–1998), comic book artist
- Donald Hewlett (1920–2011), actor
- Brian Bagnall (1921-2004), cartoonist, illustrator and author
- Edward Salim Michael (1921–2006), composer and author
- Sam Tingle (1921–2008), Formula 1 racing driver
- Alan Badel (1923–1982), theater and film actor
- Joel Barnett (1923-2014), politician
- Arthur Butterworth (1923–2014), composer, conductor and music teacher
- Bill Grundy (1923-1993), television presenter
- Duncan Hallas (1925-2002), activist
1926 to 1950
- Jim Allen (1926–1999), playwright and screenwriter
- Don Arden (1926-2007), music manager
- Dennis Sciama (1926–1999), professor of physics
- Derek Bowett (1927–2009), legal scholar
- Claude Whatham (1927–2008), television and film director
- Yehuda Avner (1928-2015), diplomat
- Paul Johnson (* 1928), journalist, historian and author
- Cyril Peacock (1928–1992), track cyclist
- Joe Brown (1930-2020), climber and mountaineer
- Burt Kwouk (1930-2016), actor
- Eric Anderson (1931–1990), football player
- John Lyons (1932-2020), linguist
- Don Estelle (1933–2003), actor and singer
- Brian Mills (1933-2006), television director
- Dennis Viollet (1933–1999), football player and coach
- Jeffrey Goldstone (* 1933), physicist
- Angela Hartley Brodie (1934-2017), cancer researcher
- Walter Whitehurst (1934–2012), football player
- Trevor Griffiths (born 1935), playwright
- Albert Scanlon (1935–2009), football player
- Bob Harrop (1936–2007), football player and coach
- Shay Brennan (1937-2000), football player
- Ken Colley (born 1937), actor
- Wilf McGuinness (* 1937), football player and coach
- Billy Robinson (1938-2014), wrestler, wrestler, author and trainer
- Ron Atkinson (born 1939), football player and coach
- Dorothy Shirley (born 1939), track and field athlete
- Art Subjects (* 1939), saxophonist
- Yvonne Blake (1940–2018), costume designer
- Brian Priestley (* 1940), jazz writer, music journalist, pianist and arranger
- Hughie Flint (born 1941), drummer
- Roy Harper (born 1941), singer-songwriter
- Keith Newton (1941-1998), football player
- David Warner (born 1941), actor
- Howard Jacobson (* 1942), writer and columnist
- Michael Mann (* 1942), professor
- Nobby Stiles (* 1942), football player
- John Taylor (1942-2015), jazz pianist
- Bernard Hill (* 1944), film, television and theater actor
- Doreen Massey (1944–2016), geographer, social scientist and university professor
- Kevin Godley (* 1945), musician and music video director
- Davy Jones (1945–2012), actor and singer
- Eric Stewart (* 1945), singer, guitarist and composer
- Mike Doyle (1946-2011), football player
- Tommy Chase (born 1947), jazz musician
- Lol Creme (born 1947), musician
- Peter Noone (* 1947), musician and television presenter
- Timothy Reuter (1947-2002), historian
- Paul Young (1947-2000), singer
- Joe Corrigan (born 1948), soccer goalkeeper and coach
- Roger T. Dean (* 1948), biologist and musician
- Martin Hannett (1948–1991), music producer
- Nigel Osborne (* 1948), composer
- Mike Renshaw (born 1948), soccer player and coach
- Alyson Bailes (1949-2016), scholar
- Michael Duff (physicist) (* 1949), physicist
- Michael Arthur Hill (* 1949), clergyman
- Brian Kidd (born 1949), football player
- Ian Livingstone (born 1949), fantasy writer and entrepreneur
- Genesis P-Orridge (1950–2020), performance artist, musician and writer
- Ruthie Smith (born 1950), jazz musician, singer
1951 to 1975
- David Schofield (born 1951), actor
- Susan Kay (* 1952), writer
- Peter Donohoe (* 1953), pianist
- Steve Furber (* 1953), Professor at the University of Manchester
- Mark James (* 1953), professional golfer
- Gordon Marsden (born 1953), politician
- June Osborne (born 1953), Anglican bishop
- Ross Brawn (* 1954), engineer and motorsport manager
- Barry Ackroyd (born 1954), cameraman
- Tim Parks (* 1954), writer and translator
- Nick Webb (1954–1998), musician and composer
- Bernard Longley (born 1955), Archbishop of Birmingham
- Graham Ward (* 1955), Anglican theologian
- Andy Gill (1956–2020), musician and record producer
- Dave Heath (* 1956), flautist and composer
- Nicholas Hytner (* 1956), theater and film director
- Peter Barnes (born 1957), football player
- Peter Howitt (* 1957), actor, director and screenwriter
- Barry Adamson (born 1958), musician
- Andy Gibb (1958–1988), singer
- Marty Willson-Piper (* 1958), songwriter, musician and poet
- Gary Megson (born 1959), football player
- Morrissey (born 1959), singer
- Jeanette Winterson (* 1959), writer
- Mick Hucknall (* 1960), musician
- Ian McDonald (born 1960), writer
- Roger Morris (* 1960), lecturer in classical philology
- Mike Newton (* 1960), entrepreneur and racing car driver
- Paul Baskerville (* 1961), journalist and radio host
- Gillian Gilbert (* 1961), musician
- Marie Purvis (* 1961), racing cyclist
- Marc Riley (* 1961), musician
- Carl Cox (* 1962), techno DJ
- John Kovalic (* 1962), draftsman and illustrator
- Mike Joyce (born 1963), musician
- Johnny Marr (born 1963), musician
- James Dale Robinson (* 1963), comic book and screenwriter
- Paul Shipton (born 1963), writer
- Diane Charlemagne (1964-2015), singer
- Damian Davey (1964–2017), actor and singer
- Lee Dixon (born 1964), football player
- Paul Hanley (born 1964), musician
- Eugene O'Brien (born 1964), racing car driver
- Jean Renshaw (* 1964), choreographer and director
- Linus Roache (* 1964), film and theater actor
- Andy Rourke (* 1964), bassist
- Steve Coogan (born 1965), actor and comedian
- Brandon Parker (1965-2020), sports manager, promoter, and billiards official
- Darren Barrett (* 1967), Canadian jazz trumpeter
- Sandra Douglas (* 1967), sprinter
- Noel Gallagher (* 1967), singer and guitarist
- Col Needham (* 1967), co-founder and managing director of IMDb
- Steven Woolfe (* 1967), politician
- Steve Brown (* 1968), jazz musician
- Howard Donald (* 1968), musician
- David Gray (* 1968), musician
- Chris Ofili (* 1968), painter and sculptor
- Badly Drawn Boy (* 1969), musician and songwriter
- Mike Freer (* 1969), politician
- Caroline Catz (* 1970), actress
- Christopher Hacon (* 1970), mathematician
- Jason Orange (born 1970), singer and stage actor
- Wayne Jackson (born 1971), singer, producer and songwriter
- Matthew Williamson (born 1971), fashion designer
- Benedict Wong (born 1971), actor
- Liam Gallagher (born 1972), singer
- Darren Campbell (* 1973), athlete
- Tony Marshall (born 1974), actor
- Nicky Butt (* 1975), soccer player
From 1976
- Marsha Thomason (born 1976), actress
- Reshma Shetty (born 1977), actress
- Sarah Storey (* 1977), swimmer and racing cyclist
- Christian Coulson (* 1978), actor
- Jamie Draven (born 1979), actor
- Wes Brown (born 1979), soccer player
- Simon Webbe (* 1979), singer
- Kate Abdo (born 1981), journalist
- Agyness Deyn (* 1983), top model
- Andy Welsh (born 1983), soccer player
- Emily Beecham (born 1984), actress
- Haris Charalambous (1984-2006), basketball player
- Sacha Dhawan (* 1984), actor
- Alex Lloyd (* 1984), racing driver
- Shayne Ward (born 1984), singer
- Ben Hanley (* 1985), racing car driver
- Ryan Townsend (born 1985), football player
- Lewis Chalmers (* 1986), football player
- Matthew Crampton (* 1986), track cyclist
- Ishmael Miller (* 1987), football player
- Joseph Murray (b.1987), boxer
- Laura White (* 1987), singer
- Afshan Azad (* 1988), actress
- Shaleum Logan (* 1988), football player
- Reece Noi (born 1988), actor
- Javan Vidal (* 1989), football player
- Danny Drinkwater (born 1990), football player
- Danny Welbeck (* 1990), soccer player
- David Worrall (* 1990), football player
- Kyle Bartley (born 1991), soccer player
- Oliver Webb (* 1991), racing driver
- Ezekiel Fryers (* 1992), soccer player
- Tyler Blackett (born 1994), soccer player
- Jessica Crampton (* 1994), track cyclist
- Alex Etel (* 1994), actor
- Marcus Rashford (born 1997), football player
- Matthew Walls (* 1998), cyclist