List of people from Salford

This is a list of people from Salford, a city in North West England. This list includes people from Salford and the wider City of Salford, and thus may include people from Eccles, Swinton, Worsley and other outlying areas of Salford. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:

Table of contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Without biographies • See also • References

B

• Hazel Blears - Labour Party politician and former cabinet minister.^[1]
• Elkie Brooks - singer, born in Salford.^[2][3]

C

• John Cooper Clarke - performance poet from Higher Broughton.^[4]

D

• Alfred Darbyshire - Architect and painter
• Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - Salford-born composer and Master of the Queen's Music.^[5][6]
• Shelagh Delaney - playwright, best known for the play A Taste of Honey, born in Salford in 1939.^[7]
• Arthur Thomas Doodson - oceanographer.^[8]

E

• Terry Eagleton - literary theorist born in Salford and educated at De La Salle College in Weaste.^[9]
• Christopher Eccleston - Salford-born, Little Hulton-raised stage, film and television actor.^[10][11]

F

• James Fearnley – musician and member of the Pogues
• Clinton Ford - classic-pop singer, born in Salford.^[12]

G

• Walter Greenwood - novellist, best known for the book and film Love on the Dole was born in Ellor Street, Salford in 1903.^[13]

K

• Ayub Khan-Din - actor and playwright who grew up in Salford
• Yousaf Ali Khan - film director
• Dean Kiely - Salford-born, Irish goalkeeper

M

• Ewan MacColl - folk singer/writer (known for "Dirty Old Town", a song about Salford, and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face") born in Broughton.^[14]
• Jason Manford - comedian and former host of the BBC's The One Show
• Sir Norman Moore - doctor and medical historian, born in Higher Broughton.^[15]
• Adrian Morley - Great Britain and England and Warrington Wolves rugby league player.^[16]

P

• Emmeline Pankhurst - one of the founders of the British suffragette movement, who for a time lived in Salford.^[17]
• Robert Powell - Salford-born television presenter and film actor, known for his roles as Jesus in Jesus of Nazareth and Richard Hannay in the Thirty-nine Steps^[18]
• Sacha Parkinson - Salford-born actor, Sian Powers in Coronation Street.
• Karl Pilkington - Salford-raised. Broadcaster from The Ricky Gervais Show and An Idiot Abroad.

R

• Shaun Ryder - vocalist and songwriter with the Happy Mondays.^[19]

S

• Paul Scholes - former England and Manchester United midfielder.^[20]
• Edward Schunck - chemist^[21]

W

• Arthur Woolliscroft - footballer, who played for Manchester City, Leicester City, Watford and Northwich Victoria.^[22]
• Tony Warren - Swinton-born television scriptwriter, best known as the creator of Coronation Street.^[23][24]
• Joanne Whalley - actor, Salford-born, brought up in Stockport, aka Joanne Whalley-Kilmer.^[25]
• Tony Wilson - Salford-born Factory Records and The Haçienda owner, radio and TV presenter, and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC.^[26]
• Russell Watson - Salford-born tenor.

See also

• List of people from Greater Manchester

References

Notes

Bibliography