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• Joan Bakewell (b. 1933): TV presenter, newsreader and journalist
• Peter Barkworth
  Peter Barkworth
  Peter Wynn Barkworth was an English actor.-Early life:Peter Barkworth was born at Margate, Kent. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Bramhall in Cheshire and Barkworth was educated at Stockport School. His headmaster wanted him to go to university but Barkworth had set his heart on a career...
  
   (1929-2006): actor. Born Margate, moved to Bramhall as young child.
• Harry Bernstein
  Harry Bernstein
  Harry Louis Bernstein was a British-born American writer whose first published book, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, dealt with his long suffering mother Ada's struggles to feed her six children; an abusive, alcoholic father, Yankel; the anti-Semitism Bernstein and his Jewish...
  
   (1910-2011): writer
• Peter Boardman
  Peter Boardman
  Peter Boardman was a British climber, Everest summiteer, and author of several mountaineering books.-Early life:...
  
   (1950–1982): mountaineer who died on Everest North-East Ridge, he was born in Bramhall
  Bramhall
  Bramhall is a suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, in Greater Manchester, England. It has a population of about 25,500.Research by the University of Sheffield has placed Bramhall as the "least lonely" place in Britain. Bramhall is also regarded as an affluent area where most residents...
  
   and went to school at Stockport Grammar
  Stockport Grammar School
  Stockport Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Stockport, England, founded in 1487 by the 1482 Lord Mayor of London Sir Edmund Shaa.The school motto is "Vincit qui patitur" – He who endures, conquers....
  
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• Liam Broady
  Liam Broady
  Liam Broady is a junior tennis player who in 2010 won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon partnered with fellow Briton Tom Farquharson.-Personal life:...
  
   (born 1994): 2010 Wimbledon Boy's Doubles champion. Born Manchester, now lives in Stockport.
• Andrew Buchan
  Andrew Buchan
  -Early life:Buchan was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, and brought up in the suburb of Lostock in Bolton. He attended the nearby Rivington and Blackrod High School in Horwich....
  
   (born 1979): TV and stage actor, who was born in Stockport
  Stockport
  Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on elevated ground southeast of Manchester city centre, at the point where the rivers Goyt and Tame join and create the River Mersey. Stockport is the largest settlement in the metropolitan borough of the same name...
  
   and raised in the Bolton
  Bolton
  Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England. Close to the West Pennine Moors, it is north west of the city of Manchester. Bolton is surrounded by several smaller towns and villages which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, of which Bolton is the...
  
   suburb of Lostock.
• Peter Butterworth
  Peter Butterworth
  Peter William Shorrocks Butterworth was an English comedy actor and comedian, best known for his appearances in the Carry On series of films. He was also a regular on children's television and radio and appeared in seven early episodes of Doctor Who in 1965 as the 'The Meddling Monk'...
  
   (1917-1978) : Film actor, well known for appearances in "Carry on" films

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• Kirsten Cassidy
  Kirsten Cassidy
  Kirsten Cassidy is a British actress best known for her role as Tanya Young in the popular BBC children's drama Grange Hill. She trained at the Laine Johnson theatre school in Salford and attended Cheadle Hulme School in Stockport. Cassidy played a variety of roles prior to Grange Hill, mostly in...
  
   (b. 1990): actress who went to school in Cheadle Hulme, best known for playing Tanya Young in Grange Hill
  Grange Hill
  Grange Hill is a British television drama series originally made by the BBC. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest running programmes on British television...
  
  

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• David Dickinson
  David Dickinson
  David Dickinson is an English antiques expert, television presenter and entrepreneur.-Biography:...
  
   born David Gulessarian (b.1941): antiques expert and television presenter.

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• Pablo Fanque
  Pablo Fanque
  Pablo Fanque was the first black circus proprietor in Britain. His circus, in which he himself was a performer, was the most popular circus in Victorian Britain for 30 years, a period that is regarded as the golden age of the circus...
  
  , equestrian and popular Victorian circus proprietor, was living with his family at Britannia Inn, 22 Churchgate, in Stockport when he died in 1871.
• Norman Foster
  Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
  Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice, Foster + Partners....
  
   (b. 1935): Stockport-born architect who was made Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Reddish, in 1999.
• Yvette Fielding
  Yvette Fielding
  Yvette Fielding is a British broadcaster, producer and actress. She is best known for being the presenter of the TV shows Blue Peter, Most Haunted and Ghosthunting With....-Early life and career:...
  
   (b. 1968): Actress and television presenter

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• Sarah Harding
  Sarah Harding
  Sarah Nicole Harding is an English singer-songwriter, actress and model best known for being a member of the pop group Girls Aloud, formed through ITV's reality television programme Popstars: The Rivals...
  
   (b. 1981):of pop
  Pop music
  Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
  
   group Girls Aloud
  Girls Aloud
  Girls Aloud are a British and Irish pop girl group based in London. They were created through the ITV1 talent show Popstars The Rivals in 2002. The group consists of Cheryl Cole , Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh. They are signed to Fascination Records, a Polydor...
  
  
• Wendy Hiller
  Wendy Hiller
  Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE was an Academy Award-winning English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took...
  
   (1912-2003): film and stage actress
• Dominic Howard
  Dominic Howard
  Dominic James "Dom" Howard , is the drummer for the English rock band Muse.-Early life:Howard was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in England. When he was around 8 years old he moved with his family to Teignmouth, a small town in Devon. He began playing drums at about the age of 12, when he...
  
   (b. 1977): Stockport-born drummer of the alternative rock
  Alternative rock
  Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
  
   band Muse
  Muse (band)
  Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy , Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard...
  
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• Arthur Kadmon
  Arthur Kadmon
  Arthur Kadmon was a guitarist who worked with different New Wave bands from Manchester, England, as Manicured Noise, Ludus, The Distractions and The Fall....
  
  , guitarist with post-punk
  Post-punk
  Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...
  
   bands from Manchester
  Manchester
  Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
  
  , like Ludus
  Ludus
  Luduș is a town in central Romania in Mureș County, 44 km south-west from the county's capital Târgu Mureș.Six villages are administered by the town: Avrămeşti , Cioarga , Ciurgău , Fundătura , Gheja and Roșiori .-History:* 1330 - First mentioned as Plehanus de...
  
   and The Fall.
• Chris Kemp, master DJ. currently based out of Sydney, Australia The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music P.1834

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• Horace Lamb
  Horace Lamb
  Sir Horace Lamb FRS was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics and Dynamical Theory of Sound...
  
  , FRS, (1849–1934]], applied mathematician and technical author
• Alan Lowndes
  Alan Lowndes
  Alan Lowndes was a British painter known primarily for his scenes of northern life. He also spent time in St Ives, and he was a close friend of many of the St Ives School artists....
  
  , (1921-1978), painter

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• Will Mellor
  Will Mellor
  William "Will" Mellor is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Jambo Bolton in Hollyoaks, Gaz Wilkinson in comedy, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps...
  
   (b. 1976): actor, well-known as Gaz in "Two Pints of Lager
  Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
  Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps was a BBC sitcom created and written by Susan Nickson. It is set in the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, and initially revolves around the lives of five twenty-somethings, played by Ralf Little , Sheridan Smith , Will Mellor , Natalie Casey and...
  
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• Dominic Monaghan
  Dominic Monaghan
  Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan is an English actor. He has received international attention from playing Merry in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and for his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost....
  
   (b.1976) film actor known for his role as Merry Brandybuck in Lord of the Rings
• Alan Morrissey
  Alan Morrissey
  Alan Morrissey is a British actor who was born in the Golden Buck pub in Stockport, where his parents were the licensees, he grew up in Manchester. Alan trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 2002 and again in 2003 Dame Maggie Smith and The Fenton Arts Trust awarded him the bursary for...
  
   (b. 1982) actor, born and raised in Stockport and is best known for his role of Nicky Van Barr in Holby City
  Holby City
  Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...
  
   alongside a well credited theatre career.
• Tim McInnerny
  Tim McInnerny
  Tim McInnerny is an English actor. He is known for his role as Percy in Blackadder and Blackadder II, and as Captain Darling in Blackadder Goes Forth...
  
   (b. 1956): actor who was born and raised in Cheadle Hulme and is best known for his roles as Lord Percy
  Lord Percy Percy
  Lord Percy Percy is the name given to a pair of related fictional characters, played by Tim McInnerny, in the first two series of the popular British sitcom Blackadder. The Lord Percy of Blackadder II is the descendant of that seen in The Black Adder...
  
   and Captain Darling in Blackadder
  Blackadder
  Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC1 historical sitcom, along with several one-off instalments. All television programme episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick...
  
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• Roger Moorhouse
  Roger Moorhouse
  Roger Moorhouse is a British historian and author. Born in Stockport, Cheshire, he was raised in Hertfordshire and attended Berkhamsted School. Inspired to return to education by the East European Revolutions of 1989, Moorhouse enrolled in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the...
  
   (b. 1968): Stockport-born historian and author
• Paul Morley
  Paul Morley
  Paul Morley is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications...
  
   (b. 1957): Music journalist, musician, producer and founder of record label ZTT
• Timmy Mallett
  Timmy Mallett
  Timmy Mallett is a TV presenter and broadcaster in the UK. He achieved cult status on BBC Radio Oxford and Manchester's Piccadilly Radio and later on TV-am...
  
  : Marple born TV and radio presenter and artist.
• Danny Miller
  Danny Miller (actor)
  Daniel Benedict "Danny" Miller is an English actor from Bredbury, Stockport, Greater Manchester, best-known for his role as Aaron Livesy in ITV soap opera Emmerdale.-Career:...
  
  : (b. 1991) actor, best known as Aaron Livesy
  Aaron Livesy
  Aaron Livesy is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Emmerdale, played by Danny Miller, who took over the role from Danny Webb in 2008. He made his first on-screen appearance on 24 December 2003. Aaron is the son of Chastity Dingle and Gordon Livesy...
  
   in Emmerdale
  Emmerdale
  Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
  
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• Fred Perry
  Fred Perry
  Frederick John Perry was a championship-winning English tennis and table tennis player who won 10 Majors including eight Grand Slams and two Pro Slams. Perry won three consecutive Wimbledon Championships between 1934 and 1936 and was World No. 1 four years in a row...
  
   (1909–1995): former World No.1 tennis player and Wimbledon Champion
  The Championships, Wimbledon
  The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
  
   born in Portwood
  Portwood
  Portwood is an area in Stockport, England, lying just outside the town centre, and based around Great Portwood Street. It is a mixed area, with the part closest to the town centre mainly given over to shops and the further part residential...
  
   and granted the freedom of Stockport in 1934.

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• Fred Ridgway
  Fred Ridgway
  Frederick Ridgway is an English former cricketer, who played in five Tests for England on the 1951/1952 tour of India, where he and Brian Statham shared the opening pace bowling duties.-Life and career:...
  
   (b. 1923): first-class cricket
  First-class cricket
  First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
  
  er who played for Kent
  Kent County Cricket Club
  Kent County Cricket Club is one of the 18 first class county county cricket clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the county of Kent...
  
   and represented England in five Test matches
  Test cricket
  Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
  
   and was born in Stockport.

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• Daz Sampson
  Daz Sampson
  Darren "Daz" Sampson is a British dance music producer, musician and singer-songwriter.Up until 2006, when he represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, Sampson was best known for his commercial dance music, often reworkings of older songs as a solo act and as a member of various...
  
   (b. 1974): multi million selling recording artist most famous for representing the uk at the 2006 eurovision song contest.
• Shaun Ryder
  Shaun Ryder
  Shaun William Ryder, aka X, is an English musician, occasional newspaper columnist, actor, author, singer-songwriter and television personality, best known as lead singer for Happy Mondays and Black Grape – and more recently as the runner-up of the 2010 version of the British TV Show I'm a...
  
   Singer in The Happy Mondays
• Samantha Siddall
  Samantha Siddall
  Samantha Siddall is an English actress, best known for playing Mandy Maguire in Shameless from 2004–2009, a role she briefly reprised for an episode in 2011...
  
   (b. 1982): Reddish-born actress known for playing Mandy Maguire in Shameless
  Shameless
  Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...
  
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• Maurice Tremlett
  Maurice Tremlett
  Maurice Fletcher Tremlett was an English cricketer, who played for Somerset, Central Districts and England....
  
   (1923–1984): first-class cricket
  First-class cricket
  First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
  
  er who played for Somerset
  Somerset County Cricket Club
  Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...
  
   and represented England in three Test matches
  Test cricket
  Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
  
   and was born in Stockport.

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• Paul Warhurst
  Paul Warhurst
  Paul Warhurst is an English former football player. He was primarily as a defender, but has also played in midfield or as a striker at various points in his career...
  
   (b. 1969): Stockport-born footballer who played for many clubs including Blackburn Rovers
  Blackburn Rovers F.C.
  Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....
  
  , Bolton Wanderers
  Bolton Wanderers F.C.
  Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....
  
  , Oldham Athletic
  Oldham Athletic A.F.C.
  Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is an English association football club based at Boundary Park, on Sheepfoot Lane in Oldham, Greater Manchester. The club currently competes in the Football League One, the third tier of the English league...
  
  , and Sheffield Wednesday
  Sheffield Wednesday F.C.
  Sheffield Wednesday Football Club are a football club based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, who are currently competing in the Football League One in the 2011-12 season, in England. Sheffield Wednesday are one of the oldest professional clubs in the world and the fourth oldest in the...
  
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• Joanne Whalley
  Joanne Whalley
  -Early life:Whalley was born in Salford but brought up in Stockport where she studied at the Braeside School of Speech and Drama, Marple.Whalley first appeared as a child in How We Used To Live and bit parts in soap operas, especially Coronation Street and Emmerdale...
  
   (b. 1964): aka Joanne Whalley-Kilmer. Actress born in Salford who grew up in Stockport.
• Hannah Whelan
  Hannah Whelan
  Hannah Kate Whelan is a British artistic gymnast from Stockport. She was the youngest member of the 2008 Summer Olympic British team where she helped the team to a 9th place finish...
  
   (b. 1992): gymnast who represented the United Kingdom at the 2008 Summer Olympics
  2008 Summer Olympics
  The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
  
   who lives and trains in Stockport.
• Sir Joseph Whitworth
  Joseph Whitworth
  Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads...
  
   (1803–1887): prominent Victorian
  Victorian era
  The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...
  
   engineer who has given his name to many Manchester
  Manchester
  Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
  
   buildings and streets was born in Stockport
• Rick Witter
  Rick Witter
  Rick Witter is a singer, songwriter and frontman of the York-based Britpop band, Shed Seven.He was educated at Huntington School, York.-Professional career:...
  
   (b. 1972): Stockport-born singer, songwriter
  Songwriter
  A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
  
   and frontman of the York
  York
  York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
  
  -based rock
  Rock music
  Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
  
   band
  Band (music)
  In music, a musical ensemble or band is a group of musicians that works together to perform music. The following articles concern types of musical bands:* All-female band* Big band* Boy band* Christian band* Church band* Concert band* Cover band...
  
  , Shed Seven
  Shed Seven
  Shed Seven are an English indie rock band from York and were one of the groups which contributed to the Britpop music scene that evolved during the 1990s, yet never received the degree of mainstream success achieved by bands such as Oasis and Blur...
  
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