List of Prestonians
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This is a list of notable people from Preston, Lancashire. For other Prestons see Preston (disambiguation).
[edit] Notable people from Preston
- Richard Arkwright (1732–1792) — inventor of the water frame that kick-started the textile industry in the late 18th century
- Professor Sir George Grenfell Baines, OBE (1908 – 2003) — Architect, pioneer of multi-disciplinary design and founder of the Building Design Partnership
- Kenny Baker (b. 1934) — an actor who plays R2D2 in Star Wars.
- Roy Barraclough (b.1935) — Actor from Coronation Street
- Eddie Calvert (1922 – 1978) — Trumpeter, "The Man With the Golden Horn"
- Gregory Doran (b. 1958) — Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company.
- Paul Englishby — film and theater composer
- Sir Tom Finney (b. 1922) — Footballer
- Andrew Flintoff (b. 1977) — Cricketer
- Zara Glover (b.1982) — International Ten-pin Bowler
- James Hebblethwaite (1857–1921) — poet
- John Inman (b.1935 — 2007) — Comedy actor and drag artiste
- Ian Kirkham — saxophone player, Simply Red.
- Ian McCulloch (b. 1971) — snooker player currently in the top 16 of the world rankings
- Mark Lawrenson (b. 1957 –) — Footballer turned football pundit
- Joseph Livesey (1794–1884) — Social reformer and pioneer of the Temperance movement in the 19th century
- Nick Park (b. 1958) — animator famous mainly for the Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run claymation animation classics.
- Jason Queally (b. 1970) — Cyclist who won a gold and a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- Edith Rigby (1872 – 1948) — Suffragette
- Samuel Ryder (1858–1936) — founder of the Ryder Cup Golf Competition
- A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) — historian.
- Jessica Taylor (b. 1980) singer with Liberty X
- Francis Thompson (1859–1907) — poet
- John Thomson (b. 1969) — actor, Men Behaving Badly
- John Wall (1620–1679) — Martyr and Saint
