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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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George Stubbs
1724 - 1806
Walter Crane
1845 - 1915
Richard Ansdell
1815 - 1885
W. G. Collingwood
1854 - 1932
Fiona Banner
Born 1966
Francis Barraud
1856 - 1924
William Halsall
1841 - 1919
Alfred William Hunt
1830 - 1896
Martin Cooper (musician)
Born 1958
William Huggins (animal artist)
1820 - 1884
William Lindsay Windus
1822 - 1907
Charles Chatworthy Wood Taylor
1792 - 1856
Mary Harrison (artist)
1788 - 1875
William Rimmer
1816 - 1879
Isabelle de Steiger
1836 - 1927
Paul Morrison (artist)
Born 1966
Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot
1886 - 1911
Albert Richards (artist)
1919 - 1945
Michael Kenny (sculptor)
1941 - 1999
Jessie Macgregor
1847 - 1919
William Buelow Gould
1803 - 1853
Thomas Falcon Marshall
1818 - 1878
Edith Martineau
1842 - 1909
John Kirby (artist)
Born 1949
William Linton (artist)
1791 - 1876
Jane Mary Dealy
1856 - 1939
Richard Wright (painter)
1735 - 1775
Frank Moss Bennett
1874 - 1952
Alexander Mackenzie (artist)
1923 - 2002
Lindsay Bernard Hall
1859 - 1935
Evelyn Gibbs
1905 - 1991
William Gawin Herdman
1805 - 1882
Margaret Bernadine Hall
1863 - 1910
James Campbell (artist)
1828 - 1893
Samuel Austin (artist)
1796 - 1834
Terrick Williams
1860 - 1936
Roger Dale
Born 1950
David Griffiths (portrait painter)
Born 1939
Daniel Alexander Williamson
1823 - 1903
Mary McCrossan
1865 - 1934
George Henry Harrison
1816 - 1846
William Caddick
1719 - 1794
Thomas Hazlehurst (artist)
1740 - 1821
Samuel Medley
1769 - 1857
Dave White (artist)
Born 1971
Caroline Gotch
1854 - 1945
Edward Kennion
1744 - 1809
George Lothian Hall
1825 - 1888
James Ardern Grant
1887 - 1973
Louis Henry Weston Klingender
1861 - 1950
Joseph Parry (artist)
1744 - 1826
Allen Maddox
1948 - 2000
Robert Tonge
1823 - 1856
Constance Copeman
1864 - 1953
Max Morton
Born 1943
Violet Gillett
1898 - 1996
Pauline Amos
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Annabel Dover
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Louisa C. Martin, née Strobel
1803 - 1883