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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 1870s Clear ×
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
1870 - 1963
James Larkin
1876 - 1947
Franklin Dyall
1874 - 1950
Thomas Johnson (Irish politician)
1872 - 1963
Konstantinos Paspatis
1878 - 1903
Henry Tingle Wilde
1872 - 1912
Alfred James Ewart
1872 - 1937
Leonard D. Abbott
1878 - 1953
William Montgomery (cryptographer)
1871 - 1930
Maude Royden
1876 - 1956
Stephen MacKenna
1872 - 1934
Herbert C. Robinson
1874 - 1929
Bertram Fletcher Robinson
1870 - 1907
Malcolm Cherry
1878 - 1925
Jack Cox (footballer)
1877 - 1955
Ernest C. Warde
1874 - 1923
Charles Morley Wenyon
1878 - 1948
Jimmy Ashcroft
1878 - 1943
George Smith (athlete)
1876 - 1915
Richard Burn (Indologist)
1871 - 1947
Holbrook Jackson
1874 - 1948
Percy Bates
1879 - 1946
Harry Bradshaw (footballer, born 1873)
1873 - 1899
Frank Crowther
1870 - 1955
Frederick Seddon
1872 - 1912
Will Goldston
1878 - 1948
Frank Moss Bennett
1874 - 1952
William Davidson (sailor)
1876 - 1934
Aubrey Mallalieu
1873 - 1948
John Hines (Australian soldier)
1873 - 1958
Percy Brookfield
1875 - 1921
Walter Jerrold
1875 - 1929
Arthur Benison Hubback
1871 - 1948
Lionel Barnett
1871 - 1960
George Rodocanachi
1875 - 1944
Billy Balmer
1877 - 1937
R. B. Whitehead
1879 - 1967
Alf Schofield
Born 1873
William Watson (motoring pioneer)
1873 - 1961
Allan Wilkie
1878 - 1970
Howard Davies (attore)
1879 - 1947
William James Sawyer
1870 - 1940
Theodore Hubback
1872 - 1942
Alexander Lafone
1870 - 1917
Jonathan Davidson
1874 - 1961
Bobby Royle
1878 - 1916
George Molyneux
1875 - 1942
Ruth Herbert Lewis
1871 - 1946
Emma Clarke (footballer)
Born 1876
Ernest Alexander
1870 - 1934
Jack Kinley
1878 - 1957
Sydney Smith (footballer)
Born 1875
Charlie Jowitt
Born 1872
William Snodgrass (politician)
1870 - 1920
John Becke
1879 - 1949
William M. Kearons
1878 - 1948
Robert Connell (politician)
1871 - 1957
William Gresham (footballer)
1870 - 1894
James Samuel Taylor
1872 - 1960
Francis L'Estrange Joseph
1870 - 1951
Bill Gibbins
Born 1872
Richard Calverley
1875 - 1915