List of residents of Wolverhampton

This is a list of notable people born in, or associated with, the city of Wolverhampton in England.

• George Armstrong - Locomotive Superintendent, Northern Division, Great Western Railway, 1864-1897
• Joseph Armstrong - Locomotive Superintendent, Northern Division, Great Western Railway, 1854-1864
• Richard Attwood - Winner, 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans. Former Formula One driver.
• Babylon Zoo - British electro rock band of the mid 1990s
• Jono Bacon - Software developer and journalist (Community manager of the Ubuntu Linux project)
• Ruth Badger - Runner-up of the second series of 'The Apprentice'
• Frances Barber - Actress
• Stuart Baxter - Football Manager. Current manager of Finland national football team
• Sir William Maddock Bayliss - physician.
• Nigel Bennett - actor
• Henry Brinton - Author of 1962 cold war novel Purple-6
• Norman Brook - Cabinet Secretary (1947–1962)
• Stephen Byers - former Cabinet Minister, Labour Party politician.
• Mark Davies - Footballer currently playing for Bolton Wanderers.
• Edward Elgar - despite living in Worcester, he was an ardent Wolverhampton Wanderers fan and may have travelled to home games on his bicycle. Elgar bought two Wolverhampton-produced Royal Sunbeam bicycles in 1903, which he named Mr Phoebus, and visited the Sunbeam Works in Upper Villiers Street for 'tuning'.
• Dr Robert William Felkin (1853–1926) - LRCS (Edinburgh), MD (Marberg), FRSE, FRGS; medical missionary; ceremonial magician, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and founder of the Whare Ra lodge; author on Uganda and Central Africa; explorer and anthropologist.
• John Ford - Manx winning BSA Rocket III Mechanic
• Button Gwinnett - signatory of the US Declaration of Independence.
• Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman - first Lord Speaker.
• Sir Jack Hayward, OBE - son of Wolverhampton factory owners, self-made millionaire, benefactor of many charities, fighter pilot in the Second World War, President of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
• Rachael Heyhoe-Flint - captain of the England Women's Cricket World Cup team 1973.
• Dave Hill - lead guitarist for the band Slade.
• Noddy Holder - born in Walsall, singer/rhythm guitarist for Slade.
• Dave Holland - jazz bassist.
• Eric Idle - actor and comedian.
• Charles Jones (1866–1959) - gardener and photographer.
• Jamelia - musician originally from Birmingham now living in Wolverhampton.
• Rupert Alfred Kettle - county court judge and noted arbitrator.
• Mervyn King - Governor of the Bank of England, educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School.
• Beverley Knight - soul singer.
• Sir Richard Leveson - Vice Admiral of the Fleet for Life, hero of the Battle of Cadiz, 1596.
• Denise Lewis - Olympic Gold Medallist born in West Bromwich and raised in Wolverhampton.
• Barbara "Babs" Lord - dancer in Pan's People.
• Hayley Price- Olympic gymnast in Los Angeles.
• Anita Lonsbrough - Olympic Gold Medallist in swimming.
• Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander - chairman of Mander Brothers, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East, donor of Wightwick Manor to the National Trust.
• Miles Mander - early Hollywood film actor, director and novelist.
• John Marston the founder of the Sunbeam company, in Upper Villiers Street
• Scott Matthews - singer/songwriter
• Mil Millington - journalist and novelist.
• Jimmy Mullen - Spent his whole career from 1938 to 1959 playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. He also played for England 12 times.
• Alfred Noyes - poet.
• Sean O'Connor, professional footballer, 2008 Scottish Cup finalist
• Liam Payne - The X Factor contestant 2010 from boyband One Direction
• Suzanne Paul - Winner of New Zealand's 'Dancing with the Stars' 2007
• Brian Pendleton - rhythm guitarist with The Pretty Things in the sixties.
• Dora Penny - was the daughter of the Rector of Wolverhampton and a good friend of Edward Elgar and his family. She became immortalised as 'Dorabella' in the tenth of the Enigma Variations. Her autobiography 'Memories of a Variation' was penned under her married name of Mrs Richard Powell.
• Bob Plant - soldier, recipient of MC
• Robert Plant - singer in Led Zeppelin, born in West Bromwich.
• Hugh Porter - Olympic cyclist, broadcaster and media personality.
• Lisa Potts - teacher and George Medal Holder.
• Enoch Powell - politician (Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West 1950 - Feb 1974), poet, scholar and soldier.
• Oscar Gustave Rejlander - the "father of art photography".
• Carina Round - Singer/Songwriter
• Kevin Rowland - singer in Dexys Midnight Runners.
• Tessa Sanderson - gold medallist in the javelin throw, 1984 Olympic Games.
• Nigel Slater - food writer and journalist.
• Vikram Solanki - England and Worcestershire cricketer.
• Mark Speight - Television presenter
• Percy Stallard - racing cyclist, founder of the British League of Racing Cyclists and, as organiser of the 1942 Wolverhampton-Llangollen race, the father of massed-start cycle racing on public roads in Britain.
• Josef Stawinoga - local hermit
• Dave Swift - bassist
• Meera Syal - actress, novelist and comedian.
• Jack Taylor - referee, 1974 FIFA World Cup final.
• Maggie Teyte - soprano, creator of role of Melisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande.
• Thomas Turner - pioneer of sanitary disposal.
• Evelyn Underhill - mystic and Anglican writer.
• Sir Charles Pelham Villiers - member of Parliament for sixty-three years, holding the record for being the longest serving MP in Parliamentary history. A statue of him stands in West Park in Wolverhampton.
• Sir Charles Wheeler - sculptor and former president of the Royal Academy.
• William Wood (1671–1730) lived at The Deanery, a large house in Wolverhampton. He was given a contract as a mintmaster to strike an issue of Irish coinage from 1722 to 1724. William Wood's coinage was extremely unpopular as a result of the publication of Jonathan Swift's Drapier's Letters and were recalled.
• Jonathan Wild - self-penned Chief Thieftaker General of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Bert Williams - Spent his whole career from 1945 to 1959 playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. He also played for England 24 times.
• Billy Wright - captain of England and Wolverhampton Wanderers and for a long period of time the most capped English football player.
• David Wright - former UK Ambassador to Japan.
• Percy M. Young - musicologist, writer and composer.
• Paul Raven - musician.
• Liam Payne (born 1993) member of popular boy band, One Direction