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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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Ramsey Campbell
Born 1946
Brian Jacques
1939 - 2011
J. G. Farrell
1935 - 1979
John Birmingham
Born 1964
Shirley Hughes
Born 1927
J. V. Jones
Born 1963
Helen Walsh
Born 1977
Linda Chapman
Born 1969
Philip Meadows Taylor
1808 - 1876
Monica Hughes
1925 - 2003
John White (Christian author)
1924 - 2002
Deborah Curtis
1956 - 1980
Pamela McCorduck
Born 1940
Matt Hughes (writer)
Born 1949
Alan Gibbons
Born 1953
Lisa Hilton (writer)
Born 1974
Marguerite Steen
1894 - 1975
Niall Griffiths
Born 1966
Richard Starkings
Born 1962
Archibald Clavering Gunter
1847 - 1907
Thomas Roscoe
1791 - 1871
Barry Jonsberg
Born 1951
James Heneghan
Born 1930
Nicky Pellegrino
Born 1964
John Reppion
Born 1978
Elizabeth Kane
1836 - 1909
Richard Whittington-Egan
1924 - 2016
Harold Edward Bindloss
1866 - 1945
Walter Jerrold
1875 - 1929
Frank Laskier
1912 - 1949
Lucy Crane
1842 - 1882
Lionel Barnett
1871 - 1960
Brian Reade
Born 1957
Peter Loughran
Born 1938
Steve McKevitt
Born 1966
Bernie Mullin
Born 1949
James Corbett (author)
Born 1978
Nicholas Size
1866 - 1953
Fanny Calder
1838 - 1923
Clive Murphy
Born 1935
John Ironside
1866 - 1945
Ian Carney
Born 1962