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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 1890s Clear ×
Doris Lloyd
1896 - 1968
Leslie Banks
1890 - 1952
Max Woosnam
1892 - 1965
Bessie Braddock
1899 - 1970
Marco Pallis
1895 - 1989
Léon Goossens
1897 - 1988
James Hanley (novelist)
1897 - 1985
Frank Pettingell
1891 - 1966
James Laver
1899 - 1975
Tommy Handley
1892 - 1949
Edward Russell, 2nd Baron Russell of Liverpool
1895 - 1981
Sir Charles Petrie, 3rd Baronet
1895 - 1977
Richard Broxton Onians
1899 - 1986
Henry Willink
1894 - 1973
Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay
1895 - 1946
Vivian Gibson
1898 - 1981
Binnie Hale
1899 - 1984
Howel Williams
1898 - 1980
Walter G. R. Hinchliffe
1894 - 1928
Marguerite Steen
1894 - 1975
Benjamin Howard Baker
1892 - 1987
Mary Merrall
1890 - 1973
J. E. Neale
1890 - 1975
Ewart Horsfall
1892 - 1974
Richard Bird (actor)
1894 - 1986
Louis Page
1899 - 1959
John Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest
1896 - 1979
Tom Bromilow
1894 - 1959
Mary Sheridan
1899 - 1978
Kenneth Kent
1892 - 1963
Harry Storer Jr.
1898 - 1967
George Alexander Sullivan
1890 - 1942
Bert Young
1899 - 1976
Leonard Owen
1897 - 1971
Charley White
1891 - 1959
Leslie Gossage
1891 - 1949
Stanley Boughey
1896 - 1917
Arthur Evans (VC)
1891 - 1936
J. N. L. Baker
1893 - 1971
Margaret Thorp
1892 - 1978
Harry Samuels
1893 - 1976
Nora Fry Lavrin
1897 - 1985
Theo Kelly
1896 - 1964
Clarence Blum
1897 - 1984
David Jones (VC)
1891 - 1916
Mary Hottinger
1893 - 1978
H. Chalton Bradshaw
1893 - 1943
Thomas Bennett (footballer)
1891 - 1923
Marjorie Gaffney
1897 - 1963
Gabriel Coury
1896 - 1956
Winifred Duke
1890 - 1962
Henry Baker (politician)
1890 - 1968
Albert White (VC)
1892 - 1917
Mary Langford
Born 1894
John Nott-Bower
1892 - 1972
Clive Glynn
1893 - 1941
F. X. Velarde
1897 - 1961
Herbert Hodgson
1891 - 1964
Leonard Greenwood (cricketer)
1899 - 1982
Violet Gillett
1898 - 1996
John Corfield
1893 - 1953
Cyril Edward Gourley
1893 - 1982
Charles Allen (RAF officer)
1899 - 1974
Ronald Symond
1895 - 1947
Dick Wynn
1892 - 1918
Albert Hayes
Born 1895
Tommy Duggan (soccer)
1897 - 1961
Jack Armand Cunningham
1890 - 1956
John Stevenson Stubbs
1894 - 1924
Harry Buck
Born 1894
Tom Stuart (footballer)
1893 - 1957
John Helier Le Rougetel
1894 - 1975
Chris Harrington (footballer)
1892 - 1978
Billy Cotton (footballer, born 1894)
1894 - 1971
Jack Mason (RAF airman)
1896 - 1968
George Jackson (footballer, born 1893)
1893 - 1985
Francis Helme
1899 - 1984
Harry Bradshaw (footballer, born 1895)
1895 - 1923
Colin Boumphrey
1897 - 1945
Fred McCarthy (footballer)
1890 - 1980
Willie Page
1896 - 1981
Billy Kirksop
1892 - 1978
David Williams (geologist born 1898)
1898 - 1984