List of people from Stockport
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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)
- Ronald Gow (dramatist)
- Simon Stephens (playwright)
- Stuart Torevell (camera operator and rigger)
[edit] TV presenters
- Joan Bakewell
- Judith Chalmers
- Katie Derham (newsreader)
- David Dickinson
- Judy Finnigan
- Yvette Fielding
- Cash Peters (author & television and radio presenter)
- Tess Daly
[edit] 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
[edit] Comedy
- Craig Cash (TV Writer/Actor)
- Mike Yarwood (comedian)
[edit] Music
- Paul Morley (music journalist, critic, indie label founder)
[edit] Musicians
- Sarah Harding (member of pop group Girls Aloud)
- Dom Howard (musician)
- 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)
[edit] Bands
- 10cc (band)
- Hotlegs (band)
- Northern Uproar (1990s band)
- Sweet Female Attitude (RnB duo)
- System Fault (alternative rock band)
- World of Twist (band)
[edit] 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)
[edit] Sportsmen/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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[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)
- 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)
- Victoria Knight (Adult Movies)
