List of people from Leeds

This is a list of people from Leeds, a city in West Yorkshire, England. This list includes people from the historic settlement, and the wider metropolitan borough, and thus may include people from Horsforth, Morley, Pudsey, Otley and Wetherby and other areas of the city. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:

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Without biographies • Not from Leeds but buried in Leeds • See also • References

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List of people not from Leeds but buried in Leeds

See also

References

Notes

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