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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 1880s Clear ×
Sylvia Pankhurst
1882 - 1960
Alice Bailey
1880 - 1949
Christabel Pankhurst
1880 - 1958
Sydney Chapman (mathematician)
1888 - 1970
George Zucco
1886 - 1960
Ernest Marsden
1889 - 1970
Adela Pankhurst
1885 - 1961
John Foulds
1880 - 1939
Harry Bateman
1882 - 1946
Gilbert Cannan
1884 - 1955
Frank Kingdon-Ward
1885 - 1958
David Armitage Bannerman
1886 - 1979
Harold Hardman
1882 - 1965
Israel Sieff, Baron Sieff
1889 - 1972
Ethel Muckelt
1885 - 1953
Ernest Wood
1883 - 1965
Emil Voigt (athlete)
1883 - 1973
Robert Stephen Adamson
1885 - 1965
John Ramsbottom (mycologist)
1885 - 1974
Gerald Boland
1885 - 1973
Harry Edwin Wood
1881 - 1946
Edgar Lobel
1888 - 1982
Randolph Schwabe
1885 - 1948
Jack Reynolds (footballer, born 1881)
1881 - 1962
Eddie Owen (runner)
1886 - 1949
William Henry Dean
1887 - 1949
Charles Forsyth
1885 - 1951
Herbert Burgess
1883 - 1954
Thomas Coe
Born 1880
Bertha Belmore
1882 - 1953
Mark Hovell
1888 - 1916
Dick Duckworth (footballer, born 1882)
Born 1882
Ralph Lynn
1882 - 1962
Tom Chorlton
1882 - 1952
Mary Leigh
1885 - 1978
Oswald Cawley
1882 - 1918
James Marshall (VC)
1887 - 1918
Joseph Pepé
1881 - 1970
Louis Rocca
1882 - 1950
Alis Levi
1884 - 1982
John Stanhope Collings-Wells
1880 - 1918
Arthur Whalley
1886 - 1952
Eric Platford
1883 - 1938
William W. Pearson
1881 - 1923
Paddy McGuire (footballer)
1889 - 1916
Charles Harry Coverdale
1888 - 1955
John Eales (Conservative politician)
1881 - 1936
Frances Peralta
1883 - 1933
Aaron Hulme
1886 - 1933
Dorothy Lamb
1887 - 1967
Henry Stephen
1889 - 1965
James Brannick
1889 - 1917
Albert Ellis (footballer)
1889 - 1961
Herbert Hendrie
1887 - 1946
Samuel Johnson (English footballer)
Born 1881
Alfred Robinson (footballer, born 1888)
Born 1888
John Thomas (VC)
1886 - 1954
Charlie Hinks
1880 - 1956
Alf Tinkler
1886 - 1950
Charlie Milnes
Born 1885
Alfred Gettins
1886 - 1949
Jack Chamberlain (politician)
1884 - 1953
Sydney Wallwork
1883 - 1966
Bob Hamnett
1889 - 1967
Jimmy Atkinson
1886 - 1910
Billy Openshaw
1881 - 1945
William B. Brierley
1889 - 1963