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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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  • Film & TV
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Politics & Law
  • Science
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All2,322
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Showing 40 of 2,322 notable people

0096 GEOLOGIST

John Milne

1850 - 1913

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0128 POLITICIAN

Augustine Birrell

1850 - 1933

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0200 ADMIRAL

William Thomas Turner

1856 - 1933

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0234 PAINTER

W. G. Collingwood

1854 - 1932

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0254 OFFICER

John Maxwell (British Army officer)

1859 - 1929

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0267 PHYSICIST

Richard Glazebrook

1854 - 1935

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0302 LAWYER

Abdullah Quilliam

1856 - 1932

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0324 PAINTER

Francis Barraud

1856 - 1924

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0461 SINGER

Marie Brema

1856 - 1925

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0481 JOURNALIST

Edmund James Banfield

1852 - 1923

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0552 BOTANIST

William Watson (botanist)

1858 - 1925

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0693 ENGINEER

John Aspinall (engineer)

1851 - 1937

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0743 LITERARY

Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell

1856 - 1930

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0769 POLITICIAN

John Evans (Australian politician)

1855 - 1943

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0826 JOURNALIST

William Astley

1855 - 1911

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0833 PLAYWRIGHT

Beatrice deMille

1853 - 1923

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0842 EXPLORER

St. George Littledale

1851 - 1931

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0846 POLITICIAN

José Enrique de Olano

1858 - 1934

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0847 PHYSIOLOGIST

Francis Gotch

1853 - 1913

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0887 SKIPPER

Thomas Littledale

1850 - 1938

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0945 FOOTBALL

Rupert Anderson

1859 - 1944

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0955 PAINTER

Jane Mary Dealy

1856 - 1939

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1072 PAINTER

Lindsay Bernard Hall

1859 - 1935

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1205 ARCHITECT

William Critchlow Harris

1854 - 1913

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1295 FOOTBALL

Dick Molyneux

1858 - 1906

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1483 PAINTER

Caroline Gotch

1854 - 1945

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1650 EXPLORER

Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot

1850 - 1913

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1666 SINGER

Marion Hood

1854 - 1912

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1719 FOOTBALL

Frederick Rinder

1858 - 1938

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1727 NURSE

Rosalind Paget

1855 - 1948

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1742 CRICKET

Alan Barnes (cricketer)

1850 - 1915

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1759 PLAYER

John Dumbell

1859 - 1936

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1883 CRICKET

James Ravenscroft

1854 - 1931

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1899 ARTIST

James William Carling

1857 - 1887

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1932 PLAYER

Andrew Bulteel

1850 - 1888

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1943 PHYSICIAN

James Clement Baxter

1857 - 1928

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2042 GOLF

Allan Macfie

1854 - 1943

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2282 PLAYER

Henry Enthoven

Born 1855

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2285 PLAYER

Henry Springmann

1859 - 1936

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2322 PHYSICIAN

Gustaf Nordlund

1852 - 1901

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