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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.
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- Filtered to 1840s Clear ×
Walter Crane
1845 - 1915
Charles Booth (social reformer)
1840 - 1916
Luke Fildes
1844 - 1927
Kate Sheppard
1848 - 1934
John Bigham, 1st Viscount Mersey
1840 - 1929
Harry Rawson
1843 - 1910
Stewart Headlam
1847 - 1924
Robert B. Elliott
1842 - 1884
Michael Maybrick
1841 - 1913
William Halsall
1841 - 1919
Augustus Radcliffe Grote
1841 - 1903
Ella Sophia Armitage
1841 - 1931
Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet
1842 - 1919
Archibald Clavering Gunter
1847 - 1907
William Henry Finlay
1849 - 1924
Jessie Macgregor
1847 - 1919
William Boyd Carpenter
1841 - 1918
Thomas Blackburn (entomologist)
1844 - 1912
Charles Stubbs
1845 - 1912
Edith Martineau
1842 - 1909
Henry Coward
1849 - 1944
Lucy Crane
1842 - 1882
Randall Williams (showman)
1846 - 1898
Herbert Armitage James
1844 - 1931
Richard Wardill
1840 - 1873
William Bower Forwood
1840 - 1928
Edward Turner Jeffery
1843 - 1927
Lewis Cohen (mayor)
1849 - 1933
Frank Tobin
1849 - 1927
Benjamin Wardill
1842 - 1917
Richard Beddows
1843 - 1922
William Rigg (politician)
1847 - 1926
John Clayton (rugby union)
1848 - 1924
Azhabel P. Bell
1840 - 1900
Thomas G. Lawler
1844 - 1908
Edward Corrie
1848 - 1931
William Neilson (cricketer)
1848 - 1880
Thomas Henry Barker
1841 - 1917
Joseph Irlam
Born 1840
Joseph Beverley Fenby
1841 - 1903
Tom French (jockey)
1844 - 1873
David Misell
1846 - 1920
Ada Lewis-Hill
1844 - 1906