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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 1910s Clear ×
Kenneth E. Boulding
1910 - 1993
Patricia Medina
1919 - 2012
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
1914 - 1994
Nicholas Monsarrat
1910 - 1979
John Gregson
1919 - 1975
Rupert Davies
1916 - 1976
Robert Flemyng
1912 - 1995
William Stuart-Houston
1911 - 1987
Julia Lennon
1914 - 1958
Charles Evans (mountaineer)
1918 - 1995
Frederic Franklin
1914 - 2013
Jack Brooks (lyricist)
1912 - 1971
Keith J. Laidler
1916 - 2003
Alfred Lennon
1912 - 1976
Julian Wintle
1913 - 1980
Betty Marsden
1919 - 1998
Jesse Carver
1911 - 2003
Geoffrey Gilbert
1914 - 1989
Rose Heilbron
1914 - 2005
Avril Angers
1918 - 2005
William Markus
1917 - 1989
Henry Lipson
1910 - 1991
Julian Creus
1917 - 1992
Prudence Hero Napier
1916 - 1997
Frank Byers
1915 - 1984
Albert Richards (artist)
1919 - 1945
Bernard Robinson (production designer)
1912 - 1970
Jack Balmer
1916 - 1984
Alexander Sinclair
1911 - 2002
Arnold Alexander Hall
1915 - 2000
Frederick Riddle
1912 - 1995
Jerry Morris
1910 - 2009
John Worsley (artist)
1919 - 2000
Alexis P. Vlasto
1915 - 2000
Ken Cranston
1917 - 2007
Thomas Cecil Gray
1913 - 2008
Augustine Harris
1917 - 2007
Bill Gormlie
1911 - 1976
Jack Roberts (footballer, born 1910)
1910 - 1985
Frank Laskier
1912 - 1949
Vida Hope
1918 - 1963
Norman Budd
1914 - 2006
Cecil Clothier
1919 - 2010
Daniel Pettit
1915 - 2010
Edith Eccles
1910 - 1977
William Sefton, Baron Sefton of Garston
1915 - 2001
Neville Wadia
1911 - 1996
Alison Kelly (art historian)
1913 - 2016
John Fraser Drummond
1918 - 1940
Maynah Lewis
1919 - 1988
James Robertson (conductor)
1912 - 1991
Jack Llewellyn
1914 - 1988
Eileen Crofton
1919 - 2010
Morris Jones (footballer)
1919 - 1993
Armel Hugh Diverres
1914 - 1998
Dorothy McEvoy
1910 - 1994
Norman Catlin
1918 - 1941
Ernie Roderick
1914 - 1986
Mary Cannell
1913 - 2000
Ray Cazaux
1917 - 1999
Harry Hanan
1916 - 1982
Gerry Blattner
1913 - 1992
Harry Griffiths (footballer, born 1912)
1912 - 1981
Armel Diverrès
1914 - 1998
Kenneth Stoddart
1914 - 2008
Allan Roy
1911 - 2011
Len Carney
1915 - 1996
Máirtín Standún
1918 - 1994
Harry Kaye
1919 - 1992
Alex Scott (footballer, born 1913)
1913 - 1962
Sydney Chedgzoy
1911 - 1983
Bill Hullett
1915 - 1982
Billy Beckett
1915 - 1998
Wally Halsall
1912 - 1996
Albert Malam
1913 - 1992
Rodney Young (politician)
1910 - 1978
Jack Ormandy
Born 1912
Richard Maudsley
1918 - 1991
Fred Smith (footballer, born 1914)
1914 - 1982
Laurence L'Estrange
1912 - 1991
Eddie Tunney
1915 - 2011
Norman Sharp (footballer)
1919 - 1977