List of people from Salford

This is a list of people from Salford, a city in North West England. This list includes people from Salford and the wider City of Salford, and thus may include people from Eccles, Swinton, Worsley and other outlying areas of Salford. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:

Table of contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Without biographies • See also • References

B

• David Bamber, actor; born in Walkden
• Geoff Bent (1932-1958), English footballer; one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster; born at Irlams o' th' Height, Salford
• Hazel Blears, Labour Party politician and former cabinet minister^[1]
• George Bradshaw, cartographer and publisher, produced railway guides and timetables known as Bradshaw's Guide
• Harold Brighouse, playwright and author best known for Hobson's Choice, set in Salford
• Elkie Brooks, singer, born in Salford^[2][3]
• Tim Burgess, singer, songwriter

C

• Sydney Chapman, mathematician and geophysicist
• Allan Clarke, singer (The Hollies)
• John Cooper Clarke, performance poet from Higher Broughton^[4]
• Eddie Colman, Manchester United footballer who died in the Munich air disaster in 1958; born on Archie Street in Salford
• Alistair Cooke, U.S. journalist and broadcaster; born in Salford
• William Cooke (1821–1894), clergyman hymn-writer, born in Eccles^[5][6]
• William Crabtree (1610-1644), astronomer, mathematician and merchant; one of only two people to observe and record the first predicted transit of Venus in 1639.
• Andy Crane, television and radio presenter, lived for a time in Salford

D

• Alfred Darbyshire, architect and painter
• Freddie Davies, comedian and actor (Opportunity Knocks)
• Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Salford-born composer and Master of the Queen's Music^[7][8]
• Brenda De Banzie, actress, moved to Salford as a child
• Shelagh Delaney, playwright, best known for the play A Taste of Honey^[9]
• Arthur Thomas Doodson, oceanographer^[10]

E

• Terry Eagleton, literary theorist born and brought up in Salford^[11]
• Christopher Eccleston, Salford-born, Little Hulton-brought up stage, film and television actor^[12][13]

F

• James Fearnley, musician; native of Worsley
• Albert Finney, stage and film actor
• Clinton Ford - classic-pop singer^[14]
• Stephen Foster, boxer

G

• Ryan Giggs, footballer; moved to Pendlebury as a child
• Joe Gladwin, actor
• Walter Greenwood, novelist, best known for the book and film Love on the Dole^[15]

H

• Ren Harvieu, singer-songwriter
• James Hazeldine, actor
• Kallum Higginbotham, professional footballer, currently playing as a striker for Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premiership

Football player Kallum Higginbotham, who previously played for local football club Salford City

• Isabel Hodgins, actress (Emmerdale)
• Dean Holden, former footballer, currently assistant manager at Oldham Athletic
• Peter Hook, bassist of the bands Joy Division and New Order^[16][17]

J

• Rob James-Collier, actor and model
• Maggie Jones (1934-2009), actress
• James Prescott Joule, physicist

K

• Joseph Kay (1821-1878), economist and judge
• Yousaf Ali Khan, film director; grew up in Salford
• Ayub Khan-Din, actor and playwright who grew up in Salford
• Ben Kingsley, actor, grew up in Pendlebury
• Pat Kirkwood, musical theatre actress^[18]

L

• Mike Leigh, writer and director; grew up in Broughton
• L.S. Lowry, artist; lived in Pendlebury from 1909 to 1948

M

• Ewan MacColl, folk singer, writer^[19]
• Jason Manford, comedian and former host of the BBC's The One Show
• Jamie Moore, former boxer
• Sir Norman Moore, doctor and medical historian^[20]
• John Moores, businessman
• Adrian Morley, Great Britain, England, Leeds, Sydney Roosters, Warrington and Salford rugby league player^[21]

N

• Graham Nash, singer and musician with the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; grew up in Salford

P

• Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the British suffragette movement; for a time lived in Salford^[22]
• Sacha Parkinson, actress (Coronation Street)
• Charlie Pawsey, rugby league player
• Stan Pearson, former footballer
• Robert Powell, television presenter and film actor (Thirty-nine Steps)^[23]
• John Henry Poynting, physicist

R

• Harold Riley, artist
• Robert Roberts, author
• Alliott Verdon Roe - pioneer pilot and aircraft manufacturer
• Shaun Ryder, vocalist and songwriter with the Happy Mondays^[24]

S

• Paul Scholes, England and Manchester United midfielder; born in Salford.^[25]
• Edward Schunck, chemist^[26]
• Randolph Schwabe, draughtsman and painter; Slade Professor of Fine Art from 1930-48
• Mark E. Smith, musician (The Fall)
• Bernard Sumner, singer and musician (Joy Division and New Order)
• Mike Sweeney (DJ), radio broadcaster, musician and DJ

T

• John Thomson, actor and comedian

V

• John Virgo, former snooker player; currently commentator

W

• Mike Walker, jazz guitarist
• Tony Warren, television scriptwriter (Coronation Street)^[27][28]
• Russell Watson, tenor
• William Webb Ellis, claimed inventor of rugby football
• Joanne Whalley, actress^[29]
• Don Whillans, climber and mountaineer
• Tony Wilson, radio and TV presenter; journalist (Granada Television, BBC)^[30]
• Kenneth Wolstenholme, football commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s, most notable for his commentary during the 1966 FIFA World Cup which included the famous phrase "they think it's all over... it is now"
• Arthur Woolliscroft, footballer, played for Manchester City, Leicester City, Watford and Northwich Victoria^[31]
• Thomas Worthington, architect

See also

• List of people from Greater Manchester

References

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6. Samuel Willoughby Duffield, English Hymns: Their Authors and History (1886), p. 358
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21. Parkinson, Kate (9 April 2008), Razor Ray ready to send local hero Morley packing, www.salfordonline.com, retrieved 17 April 2009
22. Purvis (2002), p. 19.
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Bibliography

• Purvis, June (2002), Emmeline Pankhurst, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-23978-8
• Jenkins, Simon (2004), Introduction to Alistair Cooke's Letter from America, Penguin