List of people from The Wirral
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The following is a list of notable people who are associated with the Wirral Peninsula:
- Elvis Costello (Singer/songwriter lived in Birkenhead)
- Chris Boardman (cyclist)
- The Boo Radleys pop group
- Ian Botham (cricketer)
- Adrian Boult (conductor)
- Pete Burns (singer/songwriter)
- Daniel Craig (actor) (Spent his teenage years on the Wirral)
- Lewis Collins (actor)
- The Coral pop group
- Seán Daniel (actor/director)
- Matt Dawson (rugby player and TV personality)
- Dixie Dean (footballer)
- Lottie Dod (Wimbledon tennis champion, "most versatile female athlete of all time")
- Michael Farnworth(British Columbia politician born in Bromborough)
- John Gorman Singer with The Scaffold and presenter on TISWAS.
- Wilfred Grenfell ("Grenfell of Labrador")
- Half Man Half Biscuit pop group
- Alexis Blue pop group
- Emma Hamilton (mistress of Horatio Nelson)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (American writer; lived in Rock Ferry as US Consul)
- Austin Healey (rugby player)
- Paul Heaton (singer and song writer for the Beautiful South)
- Adrian Henri (poet and artist)
- Stephen Hough (pianist)
- Geoffrey Hughes (actor)
- Shirley Hughes (children's author and illustrator)
- Paul Humphreys (musician)
- Rita Hunter (Wagnerian soprano)
- Andrew Irvine (Everest climber)
- Glenda Jackson (actress and politician)
- Megs Jenkins (actress)
- Roger Lancelyn Green, the children's writer, lived at Poulton Hall in Poulton Lancelyn, Bebington.
- Phil Liggett (cycling commentator)
- Jason McAteer (footballer)
- Andy McCluskey (musician)
- Wilfred Owen, one of the greatest poets of the First World War, grew up in Tranmere.
- Paul O'Grady (comedian and TV personality)
- Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark pop group
- John Peel (disc jockey and radio presenter)
- Jan Ravens (actress and impressionist)
- Patricia Routledge (actress)
- Ted Robbins (comedian)
- Alan Rouse (famous climber)
- Cyril Scott (composer)
- FE Smith (Lord Chancellor)
- Olaf Stapledon, a writer, spent much of his life in West Kirby and Caldy, and many landscapes mentioned in his works can be identified.
- Ralph Steadman (artist)
- Philip Wilson Steer (impressionist painter)
- Ray Stubbs (sports commentator)
- Philip Toosey (hero of the Bridge on the River Kwai)
- Harold Wilson (Prime Minister - Head Boy of Wirral Grammar School)
- Marty Willson-Piper (guitarist for The Church)
