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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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Chris Ofili
Born 1968
Louise Jopling
1843 - 1933
Sidney Sime
1867 - 1941
Lawrence Atkinson
1873 - 1931
John Noble Barlow
1861 - 1917
Wynford Dewhurst
1864 - 1941
Thomas Armstrong (painter)
1832 - 1911
Randolph Schwabe
1885 - 1948
Henry Mark Anthony
1817 - 1886
Nigel Cooke
Born 1973
Louis Eysen
1843 - 1899
Henry Clarence Whaite
1828 - 1912
Maude Goodman
1860 - 1938
Nathaniel George Philips
1795 - 1831
Martha Darley Mutrie
1824 - 1885
Hughie O'Donoghue
Born 1953
Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner
1787 - 1849
Edwin Mackinnon Liébert
1858 - 1908
William Green (painter)
1760 - 1823
John Copley (artist)
1875 - 1950
Rosa Hope
1902 - 1972
Alfred Heaton Cooper
1864 - 1929
William Bradley (painter)
1801 - 1857
Malcolm Hughes
1920 - 1997
Henry Liverseege
1802 - 1832
Cliff Holden
1919 - 2020
Dawn Mellor
Born 1970
William Knight Keeling
1807 - 1886
Patrick George
1923 - 2016
John Henry Henshall
1856 - 1928
William Marshall Craig
1765 - 1827
Frank Stone (painter)
1800 - 1859
Daniel Orme
1766 - 1832
Sydney Lee (engraver)
1866 - 1949
James Saxon (painter)
1772 - 1828
William Gilbert Foster
1855 - 1906
George Wilfred Anthony
1810 - 1859
Ernest Preyer
1842 - 1917
Paul Winstanley
Born 1954
James Georgopoulos
Born 1966
Carole Steyn
Born 1938
Eileen Simpson and Ben White
Born 1977