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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 1860s Clear ×
May Whitty
1865 - 1948
Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
1864 - 1930
Frank Hornby
1863 - 1936
Richard Le Gallienne
1866 - 1947
Ernest Newman
1868 - 1959
Arthur Wynne
1862 - 1945
Ménie Muriel Dowie
1867 - 1945
John Edward Lloyd
1861 - 1947
Travers Vale
1865 - 1927
John Hope Simpson
1868 - 1961
Alfred Cheetham
1867 - 1918
Dora DuFran
1868 - 1934
Wilfred Stokes
1860 - 1927
George Eumorfopoulos
1863 - 1939
Annie Russell
1864 - 1936
Geraldine Taylor
1862 - 1949
Paul Aloysius Kenna
1862 - 1915
John Archer (British politician)
1863 - 1932
Harold Hughes (architect)
1864 - 1940
R. Frank Atkinson
1869 - 1923
Edward Fitzmaurice Inglefield
1861 - 1945
Charles MacIver
1866 - 1935
Harry Newbould
1861 - 1928
Tom Brown (center fielder)
1860 - 1927
William Webster (Australian politician)
1860 - 1936
Harold Edward Bindloss
1866 - 1945
Louis Tracy
1863 - 1928
Edward Gordon Duff
1863 - 1924
Margaret Bernadine Hall
1863 - 1910
Terrick Williams
1860 - 1936
Mary McCrossan
1865 - 1934
John Kirwan (politician)
1869 - 1949
Will Cuff
1868 - 1949
James White (sculptor)
1861 - 1918
William Faulkes
1863 - 1933
Louis Henry Weston Klingender
1861 - 1950
Frederick George Radcliffe
1863 - 1923
William Fletcher (rower)
1869 - 1919
Nicholas Size
1866 - 1953
Louis Bowser Cumpston
1865 - 1931
Thomas Routledge
1867 - 1927
William Thelwall Thomas
1865 - 1927
Constance Copeman
1864 - 1953
William Morgan (cricketer, born 1864)
1864 - 1934
Gilbert McMicking (British politician)
1862 - 1942
James Burns (cricketer)
1866 - 1957
May Anderson
1864 - 1946
Bob Brown (footballer, born 1869)
Born 1869
James Roberts (cricketer)
1864 - 1911
Constance Helen Frost
1863 - 1920
John Ironside
1866 - 1945
Edgar Ratcliffe
1863 - 1915
Hugh William Segar
1868 - 1954
John Esplen
1863 - 1930
Harry Radcliffe
1867 - 1949
George Fleming (footballer, born 1859)
1863 - 1912
William Spicer (Medal of Honor)
1864 - 1949
Sidney Fry
1869 - 1961
Charles Jolliffe
1861 - 1943
James Costley
1862 - 1931
Alexander Cox (cricketer)
1865 - 1950
Ernest Powell
1861 - 1928
Margaret Seward
1864 - 1929
Robert Black (mayor)
1868 - 1938
William Brown (footballer, born 1865)
Born 1865
John Sedgwick Cowper
1867 - 1947
William Briscoe (footballer)
Born 1864
William Harbour (footballer)
1869 - 1928