List of people from Manchester

This is a list of people from Manchester, a city in North West England. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:

A

• Caroline Aherne - BAFTA award winning actress, comedian and writer; The Mrs Merton Show ^[1]
• Daniel Adamson (1820–1890): engineer born in Durham who designed the Manchester Ship Canal. Adamson was kne of the directors of the Manchester chamber of commerce and a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire and Manchester. He was buried in Withington.^[2]
• Chris Addison - Stand-up comedian, writer and actor.^[3]
• Mark Addy (1840–1890): Manchester-born Albert Medal recipient.^[4]
• William Harrison Ainsworth - A historical novelist born in Manchester.^[5]
• Sir John Alcock - Aviator who, with fellow British aviator Arthur Brown, made the first nonstop transatlantic flight ^[6]
• Don Arden - Cheetham Hill-born music manager and businessman, best known for overseeing the careers of rock groups Small Faces, Electric Light Orchestra and Black Sabbath.^[7]
• Rob Atha - Table football player.^[8]
• Michael Atherton - former England cricket team captain and commentator.^[9]

B

• Max Beesley - English actor and musician.^[10]
• Wes Brown - Manchester United footballer^[11]
• Anthony Burgess (1917–1993): Manchester-born and eductaed author, poet, playwright, musician, linguist, translator and critic, most famous for his novel A Clockwork Orange.^[12]

C

• Darren Campbell - Former sprinter representing Great Britain.^[13]
• John Cassidy, an Irish-born sculptor and painter who lived in Manchester.^[14]
• Sir Humphrey Chetham, merchant and benefactor of Chetham's Library. Born in Crumpsall.^[15]
• Richard Cobden (1804–1865): Sussex-born industrialist who moved to Manchester where he was politically active.^[16]
• Peter Cundall OA, a horticulturist and television presenter born in Manchester.^[17]
• Ian Curtis musician and singer in Joy Division.^[18]

D

• Les Dawson - Comedian born in Collyhurst
• Mark Davies - Bishop of Shrewsbury.^[19][20]
• Arthur Delaney - A painter influenced by L. S. Lowry.^[21]

F

• Judy Finnigan - Television presenter and columnist. She has usually co-presented with her husband, Richard Madeley, and the two are collectively known, informally, as Richard and Judy.^[22]

G

• Liam Gallagher - lead singer of Manchester band Oasis.^[23] Born in Burnage.
• Noel Gallagher - songwriter and lead guitarist for Manchester band Oasis.^[23] Born in Burnage.
• Jimi Goodwin - The bassist, vocalist and guitarist for The Doves.^[24]
• Trevor Griffiths - dramatist, co-writer of screenplay for the film Reds. Born in Ancoats ^[25]

J

• Howard Jacobson - a Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist. He is best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters.^[26]

K

• Brian Kidd - An English football coach, (currently assistant manager at Manchester City) and former player. He was assistant manager to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United in the 1990s was a member of the Manchester United team that won the European Cup in 1968. Born in Collyhurst. ^[27]
• Burt Kwouk - English actor of Chinese descent, famous for his role as Kato in The Pink Panther^[28]

L

• Harold Lever - Labour politician and Baron Lever.^[29]
• Martin Lewis - Withington-born^[30] financial journalist who founded the MoneySavingExpert.com website.
• David Lloyd George - Born in Chorlton-in-Medlock ^[31] who was British Prime Minister during the First World War and member of the Liberal party.
• Sunny Lowry - Longsight-born^[32] swimmer who was the first British woman to swim the English Channel.

M

• Bernard Manning - Ancoats-born stand-up comedian.^[33][34]
• Johnny Marr - an English songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player, and singer. Marr rose to fame in the 1980s as the guitarist in The Smiths^[35]
• Ian McShane - an English actor who grew up in Manchester^[36]
• Steven Patrick Morrissey - singer in The Smiths.^[37] Born in Davyhulme.
• Daniel Moult - Concert organist, organ tutor and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music.^[38]
• Gary Mounfield - "Mani" is a bassist, formerly of The Stone Roses and currently in Primal Scream.^[39]

N

• Doug Naylor - Comedy writer, perhaps best known for creating the comedy series Red Dwarf.^[40]

P

• Emmeline Pankhurst - Suffragette^[41] Born Moss Side.
• Karl Pilkington - Podcaster, author and TV presenter, known for his work with Ricky Gervais^[42]
• John Charles Polanyi - A chemist, raised in Manchester, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics.^[43]

Q

• Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) was born in Manchester. An author and intellectual, he is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).^[44]

R

• Marc Riley - British musician, alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC 6 Music. Formerly a member of The Fall, he had his own record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger.^[45]
• Andy Rourke - A bass guitarist best known for being a former member of The Smiths.^[46]
• Shaun Ryder - vocalist and songwriter with the Happy Mondays who became famous in the Madchester era.^[47]

S

• Peter Saville - Manchester-born artist and designer, best known for his work with Factory Records.^[48]
• Nobby Stiles MBE - Collyhurst - An English former football midfielder. Stiles, Bobby Charlton and Ian Callaghan are the only Englishmen to have won both World and European Cups.^[49]
• Bernard Sumner - An English singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player and producer, best known as a founding member of two bands, Joy Division and New Order^[35]

T

• John Thaw - actor best known for his roles in The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC.^[50] Born in Gorton, raised in Burnage.
• J. J. Thomson - a physicist and Nobel laureate, credited with the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. He was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and his work on the conduction of electricity in gases.^[51]

W

• Danny Welbeck - Footballer who currently plays for Manchester United.^[52]
• Danny Webber - Professional footballer, currently with Premiership team Portsmouth.^[53]
• Andy Williams - The drummer and vocalist of The Doves.^[24]
• Jez Williams - The guitarist/songwriter of The Doves.^[24]
• Michael Wood - Historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous television documentary series, has made over 80 documentary films.^[54]
• Alan Wren - Known as Reni, he was the drummer of The Stone Roses.^[55]

See also

• List of people from Greater Manchester

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