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MANCHESTER
Most Famous People Born in Manchester, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 1,751
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1950
- Most distinctive
- Boxer 3.3×
The first industrial city in the world, and still the one the British music press writes about more than any other. More than a quarter of Manchester's notables are footballers, and the distinctive shelves after that are boxers and actors — the legacy of the Salford and Wythenshawe boxing clubs and a stage tradition that has fed Coronation Street for sixty years. Emmeline Pankhurst, the Pankhurst daughters, David Lloyd George, and the Manchester University labs that built the world's first stored-program computer all belong to this bench too.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Manchester during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Manchester Is Known For
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Football is Manchester's biggest profession — 25% of all notables (437).
Manchester over-indexes on boxer — 3.3× the global rate.
Manchester under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Manchester's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1870s Clear ×
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
1873 - 1954
Hewlett Johnson
1874 - 1966
Alliott Verdon Roe
1877 - 1958
Archie MacLaren
1871 - 1944
George Barger
1878 - 1939
Lawrence Atkinson
1873 - 1931
George Wilkinson (water polo)
1879 - 1946
Tom Connolly
1870 - 1961
William John Young
1878 - 1942
Leopold Wharton
1870 - 1927
Louise Kirkby Lunn
1873 - 1930
Flora Drummond
1878 - 1949
Vince Hayes
1879 - 1964
Sam Higginbottom
1874 - 1958
John Copley (artist)
1875 - 1950
Alfred Garth Jones
1872 - 1955
Austin Hopkinson
1879 - 1962
Clarence Wainwright Murphy
1875 - 1913
Victor Wahltuch
1875 - 1953
Alfred Ambler
1879 - 1940
Humphrey Verdon Roe
1878 - 1949
Sir Frank Newnes, 2nd Baronet
1876 - 1955
Percy Francis Blake
1873 - 1936
Sidney Ainsworth
1872 - 1922
Wilfred Holroyd
1877 - 1961
Harold Cawley
1878 - 1915
Walter Whittaker
1878 - 1917
Thomas Henshaw (bishop)
1873 - 1938
Graham Peel
1877 - 1937
Billy Griffiths
1876 - 1946
William Fletcher Shaw
1878 - 1961
John Payne (politician)
1871 - 1942
William Flanagan (politician)
1871 - 1944
Gordon James (actor)
1878 - 1949
Fred Williams (footballer, born 1873)
Born 1873
Joseph E. Carter
1875 - 1950
Eleanor Barton
1872 - 1960
Arthur Rylands Lowe
1873 - 1924
Joe Fall
Born 1872
William Reynolds (footballer, born 1879)
1879 - 1906
George Morris (footballer)
1879 - 1902
Harry Lappin
1879 - 1925
Robert Turner (footballer)
Born 1877
Harry Moorhouse
1872 - 1934
James Henry Smith
1871 - 1940
Tom Foy
1879 - 1917
Frank Hesham
1879 - 1915