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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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John Milne
1850 - 1913
Augustine Birrell
1850 - 1933
William Thomas Turner
1856 - 1933
W. G. Collingwood
1854 - 1932
John Maxwell (British Army officer)
1859 - 1929
Richard Glazebrook
1854 - 1935
Abdullah Quilliam
1856 - 1932
Francis Barraud
1856 - 1924
Marie Brema
1856 - 1925
Edmund James Banfield
1852 - 1923
William Watson (botanist)
1858 - 1925
John Aspinall (engineer)
1851 - 1937
Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell
1856 - 1930
John Evans (Australian politician)
1855 - 1943
William Astley
1855 - 1911
Beatrice deMille
1853 - 1923
St. George Littledale
1851 - 1931
José Enrique de Olano
1858 - 1934
Francis Gotch
1853 - 1913
Thomas Littledale
1850 - 1938
Rupert Anderson
1859 - 1944
Jane Mary Dealy
1856 - 1939
Lindsay Bernard Hall
1859 - 1935
William Critchlow Harris
1854 - 1913
Dick Molyneux
1858 - 1906
Caroline Gotch
1854 - 1945
Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot
1850 - 1913
Marion Hood
1854 - 1912
Frederick Rinder
1858 - 1938
Rosalind Paget
1855 - 1948
Alan Barnes (cricketer)
1850 - 1915
John Dumbell
1859 - 1936
James Ravenscroft
1854 - 1931
James William Carling
1857 - 1887
Andrew Bulteel
1850 - 1888
James Clement Baxter
1857 - 1928
Allan Macfie
1854 - 1943
Henry Enthoven
Born 1855
Henry Springmann
1859 - 1936
Gustaf Nordlund
1852 - 1901