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LIVERPOOL
Most Famous People Born in Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 2,322
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1946
- Most distinctive
- Comedian 7.9×
A port city that exports footballers and music in roughly equal measure. Roughly a third of Liverpool's notable births play professional football, and most of the rest are guitarists, bassists, drummers, comedians, or boxers — the four export industries of a working-class English coastal town. There's almost no aristocracy here and almost no academy; the city's fame comes out of clubs and pubs and the docks.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Liverpool during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Liverpool Is Known For
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Football is Liverpool's biggest profession — 32% of all notables (738).
Liverpool over-indexes on comedian — 7.9× the global rate.
Liverpool under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Liverpool's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Music
- Writing
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Other
- Filtered to 1820s Clear ×
George Q. Cannon
1827 - 1901
Joseph Lightfoot
1828 - 1889
Anne Clough
1820 - 1892
William Huggins (animal artist)
1820 - 1884
William Lindsay Windus
1822 - 1907
Edward Askew Sothern
1826 - 1881
George Goyder
1826 - 1898
Willoughby Weiss
1820 - 1867
James Campbell (artist)
1828 - 1893
Daniel Alexander Williamson
1823 - 1903
Richard Muspratt
1822 - 1885
Benjamin Edward Spence
1822 - 1866
John E. Owens
1824 - 1886
Joseph Jackson Howard
1827 - 1902
William Caldwell Roscoe
1823 - 1859
Henry Worrall (artist)
1825 - 1902
George Lothian Hall
1825 - 1888
John William Hopkins
1825 - 1905
John Samuel Swire
1825 - 1898
John Hutchinson (industrialist)
1825 - 1865
James Ramsden (industrialist)
1822 - 1896
George A. Cobham Jr.
1825 - 1864
Robert Tonge
1823 - 1856
John Woods (Australian politician)
1822 - 1892
John Kirk (VC)
1827 - 1865
Frederick Whirlpool
1829 - 1899
Charles Pierre Melly
1829 - 1888
John Mather (cricketer)
1821 - 1870
Charles Anderson (VC)
1827 - 1899
Ellis Abraham Franklin
1822 - 1909
William Hayes (pastoralist)
1827 - 1913
Edward Hargreaves
1826 - 1880
John Williams (New South Wales colonial politician)
1821 - 1891