List of people from Stockport

This is a list of notable people who are current or former residents of the town of Stockport, England.

Theatre, films and TV

*Sidney Gilliat (film director)
*Ronald Gow (dramatist)
*Simon Stephens (playwright)
*Stuart Torevell (camera operator and rigger)

TV presenters

*Joan Bakewell
*Judith Chalmers
*Katie Derham (newsreader)
*David Dickinson
*Judy Finnigan
*Yvette Fielding
*Cash Peters (author & television and radio presenter)
*Tess Daly

Actors

*Helen Atkinson-Wood
*Peter Butterworth
*Roger Brierley
*Simon Gregson
*Wendy Hiller
*Sally Lindsay
*Will Mellor
*Tim McInnerny
*Dominic Monaghan
*Gabrielle Ray
*Sabrina (actress) (real name Norma Anne Sykes)
*Samantha Siddall
*Joanne Whalley

Comedy

*Craig Cash (TV Writer/Actor)
*Mike Yarwood (comedian)

Music

*Paul Morley (music journalist, critic, indie label founder)

Musicians

*Sarah Harding (member of pop group Girls Aloud)
*Dom Howard (drummer, Muse)
*Daz Sampson (DJ Daz) (rapper, DJ, Eurovision contestant, member of Uniting Nations)
*Jon Thorne (double bass player)
*Ian Roberts (DJ)
*Mr. Scruff (producer, recording artist and DJ)
*Tome Lowe (singer and actor)
*Geoff Downes (musician)
*Barb Jungr (singer)

Bands

*10cc (band)
*Hotlegs (band)
*Northern Uproar (1990s band)
*Sweet Female Attitude (RnB duo)
*World of Twist (band)
*Kill II This (metal band)

Engineers, mathematicians and scientists

*C. H. Douglas (engineer and pioneer of the Social credit)
*William Edge (mathematician)
*Samuel Oldknow (cotton manufacturing pioneer)
*William Walmsley (founder of the Swallow Sidecar Company)
*Sir Joseph Whitworth (engineer & entrepreneur)
*Frederick Williams (pioneer of the computer)

portsmen/sportswomen

*John Amaechi (NBA basketballer)
*Darryl Fitton (darts player)
*Ricky Hatton (boxer)
*James Hickman (Olympic swimmer)
*John Howarth (cricketer
*Tony O'Shea (darts player)
*Fred Perry (tennis player)
*Peter Boardman (mountaineer)
*Maurice Tremlett (cricketer)
*Steve Thomas (ice hockey player (Canada))
*Fred Ridgway (cricketer)
*Charles Wright (speedway rider)
*James Wright (speedway rider)
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Football

*Damien Allen (footballer)
*Tony Butler (footballer)
*Dean Crowe (footballer)
*Mike Doyle (footballer)
*Daniel Ellis (footballer)
*William Garbutt (footballer & manager)
*Alan Gowling (former footballer)
*Harry Hardy (former footballer)
*Andy Holt (footballer)
*Andrew Hughes (footballer)
*Billy Kellock (footballer)
*Adam le Fondre (footballer)
*Tyrone Mears (footballer)
*Keith Newton (footballer)
*Robert Sissons (footballer)
*James Spencer (footballer)
*Andy Thomas (footballer)
*Scott Vernon (footballer)
*Callum Warburton (footballer)
*Paul Warhurst (footballer)
*Charlie Wilson (former footballer)
*Simon Yeo (footballer)
*Ben Wharton (footballer)

Writers

*William Astle (journalist, editor of Stockport Advertiser)
*Samuel Beal (scholar)
*Edmund Cooper (poet and writer)
*Tibor Fischer (novelist)
*Christopher Isherwood (novelist)
*Peter Riley (poet, essayist and editor)
*Julian Turner (poet and mental health worker)

Others

*Driver John Axon GC (locomotive driver and posthumous recipient of George Cross)
*Sir George Back (Admiral)
*John Bradshaw (judge in trial of Charles I)
*Richard Cobden (politician)
*John Goto (photographer)
*Joseph Lister (Victoria Cross recipient in WW1)
*Sir Edmund Shaa (Lord Mayor of London)
*John Davenport Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth (motoring pioneer and founder of Armstrong Siddeley)
*Judith Ward (wrongfully convicted of series of Provisional IRA bombings)
*Charles Webster Leadbeater (clergyman and clairvoyant)
*Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley (barrister and politician)
*Norman Foster (architect)
*Stanley Clifford-Smith (artist)
*William Houldsworth (mill owner and MP)