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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 1910s Clear ×
Anthony Burgess
1917 - 1993
Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington
1915 - 2002
Brenda Milner
Born 1918
Albert Hourani
1915 - 1993
Kathleen Ollerenshaw
1912 - 2014
Paul Dehn
1912 - 1976
Brenda Bruce
1918 - 1996
Richard Mason (novelist 1919–1997)
1919 - 1997
Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham
1910 - 1999
John Gardner (composer)
1917 - 2011
Rodney Hilton
1916 - 2002
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester
1914 - 1995
Marghanita Laski
1915 - 1988
Leonard Mosley
1913 - 1992
Juliette de Baïracli Levy
1912 - 2009
Tom Evenson
1910 - 1997
James Baddiley
1918 - 2008
Hugh Gibb
1916 - 1992
Don Welsh
1911 - 1990
Ross Parker (songwriter)
1914 - 1974
Richard Lewis (tenor)
1914 - 1990
Mollie Hardwick
1916 - 2003
James L. Tuck
1910 - 1980
Raymond Cohen
1919 - 2011
William Wheeler (bishop)
1910 - 1998
John William Sutton Pringle
1912 - 1982
Henry Raynor
1917 - 1989
John Beavan, Baron Ardwick
1910 - 1994
James C. Floyd
Born 1914
Jimmy Borland
1910 - 1970
Cecelia Wolstenholme
1915 - 1968
Eric Westwood
1917 - 2001
James Brian Tait
1916 - 2007
Marjorie Deane
1914 - 2008
Emrys Jones (actor)
1915 - 1972
Frank Allaun
1913 - 2002
Gabrielle Daye
1911 - 2005
Alf Ainsworth
1913 - 1975
Harry Johnston (footballer, born 1919)
1919 - 1973
Johnny King (boxer)
1912 - 1963
Frank Harvey (English screenwriter)
1912 - 1981
Cliff Holden
1919 - 2020
Harry Harris (geneticist)
1919 - 1994
Marjorie Browne
1910 - 1990
Jim Wallwork
1919 - 2013
Graham Westbrook Rowley
1912 - 2003
James Cunningham (bishop)
1910 - 1974
May Davis
1914 - 1995
Anna Pollak
1912 - 1996
Eugene Halliday
1911 - 1987
Philippe Garigue
1913 - 2008
John Rowland Ashton
1917 - 2008
Herbert Leeson Edlin
1913 - 1977
Christopher Casson
1912 - 1996
Jack Boothway
1919 - 1979
John Beeley
1918 - 1941
Margery Hinton
1915 - 1996
Raymond Armstrong
1917 - 1990
Helmut Kramer (Theologe)
1910 - 2011
Glenn Melvyn
1918 - 1999
Harry Travis
1911 - 1938
Olive Zorian
1916 - 1965
Peter Baines (footballer)
1919 - 1997
Dick Neilson
1916 - 2005
Fred Chadwick
1913 - 1987
Alec Roxburgh
1910 - 1985