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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 1900s Clear ×
Winston Graham
1908 - 2003
Taylor Caldwell
1900 - 1985
George Coulouris
1903 - 1989
Brenda de Banzie
1909 - 1981
Douglas Lowe (athlete)
1902 - 1981
Frank Yates
1902 - 1994
Brian Easdale
1909 - 1995
Bernard Knowles
1900 - 1975
Edward A. Guggenheim
1901 - 1970
Max Catto
1907 - 1992
Samuel Rabin (artist)
1903 - 1991
Leslie Martin
1908 - 2000
Edgar Lustgarten
1907 - 1978
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton
1906 - 1984
Tom Hopkinson
1905 - 1990
Ruth Ainsworth
1908 - 1984
Elfrida Vipont
1902 - 1992
Fred Tilson
1904 - 1972
Jackie Brown (English boxer)
1909 - 1971
Adrianne Allen
1907 - 1993
George Dwyer
1908 - 1987
Hughie Charles
1907 - 1995
Bernard Evans (architect)
1905 - 1981
Sydney Cozens
1908 - 1985
George Roughton
1909 - 1989
Rosa Hope
1902 - 1972
Philip Newman
1904 - 1966
Florence Barker
Born 1908
David Hume (écrivain)
1900 - 1945
Charles Edward Kemp
1901 - 1986
Jimmy Hanson (footballer, born 1904)
Born 1904
Harold Turner (dancer)
1909 - 1962
Norman Chester
1907 - 1986
C. Arnold Beevers
1908 - 2001
Graham Balcombe
1907 - 2000
Jimmy Cookson
1904 - 1970
Maurice Winnick
1902 - 1962
Bill Dale (footballer)
1905 - 1987
Anne Dyson
1908 - 1996
Neville Shelmerdine
1909 - 1992
Eric Boyland
1905 - 2002
Olga Gray
Born 1906
Sidney Vivian
1908 - 1984
Joseph Lea Gleave
1907 - 1965
William Clarke (footballer, born 1909)
Born 1909
Robert Gillespie (footballer, born 1904)
1904 - 1971
Jan Lewando
1909 - 2004
Henry Topping (footballer, born 1908)
1908 - 1977
James Dargan
1906 - 1985
George Lydon
1902 - 1953
Walter Taylor (footballer)
Born 1901
William Taylor (Royal Navy officer, born 1908)
1908 - 1999