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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.

Through the Decades

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 comedian7.9× the global rate.

Liverpool under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.

  1. Football738
  2. Actor199
  3. Politician113
  4. Singer83
  5. Painter59
  6. Music44
  7. Cricket44
  8. Writer42
  1. Comedian237.9×
  2. Boxer374.0×
  3. Football7382.9×
  4. Screenwriter232.3×
  5. Singer831.7×
  6. Actor1991.6×
  1. Politician1130.4×
  2. Writer420.6×

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.

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  • Music
  • Writing
  • Politics & Law
  • Science
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All2,322
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Showing 43 of 2,322 notable people

0033 PAINTER

Walter Crane

1845 - 1915

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0054 SOCIOLOGIST

Charles Booth (social reformer)

1840 - 1916

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0079 CARICATURIST

Luke Fildes

1844 - 1927

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0084 FEMINIST

Kate Sheppard

1848 - 1934

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0195 JUDGE

John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey

1840 - 1929

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0241 NAVY

Harry Rawson

1843 - 1910

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0273 PRIEST

Stewart Headlam

1847 - 1924

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0296 POLITICIAN

Robert B. Elliott

1842 - 1884

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0314 COMPOSER

Michael Maybrick

1841 - 1913

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0329 PAINTER

William Halsall

1841 - 1919

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0385 BIOLOGIST

Augustus Radcliffe Grote

1841 - 1903

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0388 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Ella Sophia Armitage

1841 - 1931

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0507 POLITICIAN

Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet

1842 - 1919

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0676 WRITER

Archibald Clavering Gunter

1847 - 1907

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0708 ASTRONOMER

William Henry Finlay

1849 - 1924

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0741 PAINTER

Jessie Macgregor

1847 - 1919

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0750 PRIEST

William Boyd Carpenter

1841 - 1918

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0766 ENTOMOLOGIST

Thomas Blackburn (entomologist)

1844 - 1912

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0795 PRIEST

Charles Stubbs

1845 - 1912

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0897 PAINTER

Edith Martineau

1842 - 1909

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0984 CONDUCTOR

Henry Coward

1849 - 1944

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1146 WRITER

Lucy Crane

1842 - 1882

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1184 SHOW

Randall Williams (showman)

1846 - 1898

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1223 TEACHER

Herbert Armitage James

1844 - 1931

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1288 FOOTBALL

Richard Wardill

1840 - 1873

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1315 MERCHANT

William Bower Forwood

1840 - 1928

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1352 RAILROAD

Edward Turner Jeffery

1843 - 1927

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1422 BUSINESS

Lewis Cohen (mayor)

1849 - 1933

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1665 PLAYER

Frank Tobin

1849 - 1927

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1702 CRICKET

Benjamin Wardill

1842 - 1917

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1827 CAMPAIGN

Richard Beddows

1843 - 1922

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1863 POLITICIAN

William Rigg (politician)

1847 - 1926

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1922 PLAYER

John Clayton (rugby union)

1848 - 1924

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2100 FERROCARRIL

Azhabel P. Bell

1840 - 1900

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2122 SOLDIER

Thomas G. Lawler

1844 - 1908

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2127 SON

Edward Corrie

1848 - 1931

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2148 CRICKET

William Neilson (cricketer)

1848 - 1880

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2204 SECRETARY

Thomas Henry Barker

1841 - 1917

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2227 NAVY

Joseph Irlam

Born 1840

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2232 INVENTOR

Joseph Beverley Fenby

1841 - 1903

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2235 JOCKEY

Tom French (jockey)

1844 - 1873

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2275 INVENTOR

David Misell

1846 - 1920

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2294 MUSIKER

Ada Lewis-Hill

1844 - 1906

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