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This is a list of notable people who are current or former residents of the town of Stockport, England.
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[edit] Theatre, Films and TV
- Sidney Gilliat (film director)
- Simon Stephens (playwright)
[edit] TV & Radio Presenters
- Joan Bakewell (TV presenter)
- Judith Chalmers (TV presenter)
- Katie Derham (newsreader)
- David Dickinson (TV presenter)
- Judy Finnigan (TV presenter)
- Yvette Fielding (TV presenter)
- Elisa Portelli (TV presenter)
- Cash Peters (author & television and radio presenter)
- Lee Evans (radio presenter)
- Tess Daly (TV presenter)
- Chelsea Norris (radio presenter)
[edit] Actors
- Helen Atkinson-Wood (actor)
- Simon Gregson (soap opera actor)
- Wendy Hiller (actress)
- Tim McInnerny (actor)
- Will Mellor (actor)
- John Mahoney (actor, Frasier)
- Dominic Monaghan (actor)
- Bill Tarmey (actor)
- Gabrielle Ray (actress)
- Sabrina (actress) (real name Norma Anne Sykes, model and actress)
- Joanne Whalley (actress)
- Sally Lindsay (actress)
- Roger Brierley (actor)
[edit] Comedy
- Craig Cash (TV Writer/Actor)
- Mike Yarwood (comedian)
[edit] Music
- Bill Hopkins (composer)
- Paul Morley (music journalist, critic, indie label founder)
[edit] Musicians
- Sarah Harding (member of pop group Girls Aloud)
- Dom Howard (musician)
- Emma Morton-Smith (singer)
- 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)
- Eric Haydock (guitarist)
[edit] Bands
- 10cc (band)
- Hotlegs (band)
- Northern Uproar (1990s band)
- World of Twist (band)
[edit] Engineers, Mathematicians and Scientists
- Sir Joseph Whitworth (engineer & entrepreneur)
- Frederick Williams (pioneer of the computer)
- Samuel Oldknow (cotton manufacturing pioneer)
- William Walmsley (founder of the Swallow Sidecar Company)
- William Edge (mathematician)
[edit] Sportsmen/Sportswomen
- John Amaechi (NBA basketballer)
- James Hickman (Olympic swimmer)
- Fred Perry (tennis player)
- Peter Boardman (mountaineer)
- Maurice Tremlett (cricketer)
- Steve Thomas (ice hockey player (Canada))
- Dave Ridgway (Canadian footballer)
- Ian Heaps (former World Coarse Fishing Champion)
[edit] Football
- Paul Warhurst (football player)
- Robert Sissons (football player)
- Billy Kellock ((football player)
[edit] Writers
- Christopher Isherwood (novelist)
- Tibor Fischer (novelist)
- Samuel Beal (scholar)
[edit] 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)
- Alex Sanders (Wiccan)
- 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)
