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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 1890s Clear ×
Harold Laski
1893 - 1950
Liam Mellows
1892 - 1922
Louis Golding
1895 - 1958
John Rodker
1894 - 1955
George Kay
1891 - 1954
Ann Bishop (biologist)
1899 - 1990
Violet Carson
1898 - 1983
Josephine Bell
1897 - 1987
Doris Speed
1899 - 1994
Elsie Carlisle
1896 - 1977
John Sibbit
1895 - 1950
Walter Horace Bruford
1894 - 1988
Maurice Pivar
1894 - 1982
Doris Reynolds
1899 - 1985
Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt
1897 - 1993
Vernon Sylvaine
1896 - 1957
William Spencer (cyclist)
1895 - 1963
Arthur Merriman
1892 - 1972
Cyril Walker
1892 - 1948
Beatrice Varley
1896 - 1964
Neville Laski
1890 - 1969
James Mitchell (footballer, born 1897)
1897 - 1975
Donny Davies
1892 - 1958
Robert Palmer, 1st Baron Rusholme
1890 - 1977
Joseph Masterson
1899 - 1953
Denis Boyd
1891 - 1965
Eveline Hill
1898 - 1973
Alf Steward
Born 1896
Jack Brennan (footballer, born 1892)
1892 - 1923
Geoffrey Hilton Bowman
1891 - 1975
Bernard Matthew Cassidy
1892 - 1918
Aaron Travis (footballer)
1890 - 1966
Margaret Thorn
1897 - 1969
John Carroll (astronomer)
1899 - 1974
Sam Fletcher (soccer)
1890 - 1972
William Sidebottom (RAF officer)
1893 - 1920
Arthur Spencer
1897 - 1963
John Williamson (footballer, born 1893)
Born 1893
Alfred Thompson (footballer, died 1969)
1891 - 1969
Sam Cookson (English footballer)
1896 - 1955
Charlie Cunningham (footballer)
1890 - 1942
Frank Billinge
1894 - 2001
David Aronberg
1893 - 1967
Alexander Gault MacGowan
1894 - 1970
Dick Crawshaw
1898 - 1977
Roland Casasola
1893 - 1971
Frank Pearson (footballer)
Born 1894
Proctor Burman
1893 - 1974
Michael Graham (scientist)
1898 - 1972