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• Lascelles Abercrombie
  Lascelles Abercrombie
  Lascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets"...
  
   (1881–1938): poet and literary critic who became a lecturer in poetry at the University of Liverpool
  University of Liverpool
  The University of Liverpool is a teaching and research university in the city of Liverpool, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities and the N8 Group for research collaboration. Founded in 1881 , it is also one of the six original "red brick" civic...
  
  ; he was born in Ashton upon Mersey
  Ashton upon Mersey
  Ashton upon Mersey is an area of Sale in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the south bank of the River Mersey, in the northwestern part of Sale, and is situated about south of Manchester city centre....
  
  , an area of Sale.
• John Alcock, (1892–1919), the Stretford aviator was the first man to pilot an aeroplane non-stop across the Atlantic in 1919.
• Helen Allingham
  Helen Allingham
  __NOEDITSECTION__Helen Allingham was an English watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.-Biography:...
  
   (1848–1926): water colour artist who lived in Altrincham until the age of 14 and was the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Academy Schools

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• Michael Bishop
  Michael Bishop (businessman)
  Michael David Bishop, Baron Glendonbrook CBE is a British businessman and life peer who rose to prominence as owner of the airline BMI. He sold his stake in the airline to Lufthansa on 1 July 2009 and has an estimated personal fortune of £480 million...
  
   (born 1942): multimillionaire businessman and owner and chairman of British Midland Airways
  Bmi (airline)
  British Midland Airways Limited , is an airline based at Donington Hall in Castle Donington in the United Kingdom, close to East Midlands Airport, and a fully owned subsidiary of Lufthansa...
  
   who grew up in Hale
  Hale, Greater Manchester
  Hale is a village and electoral ward within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England. It is contiguous with the southeast of Altrincham, approximately southwest of the city of Manchester....
  
   and Bowdon
  Bowdon, Greater Manchester
  Bowdon is a suburban village and electoral ward in the Altrincham area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England.-History:...
  
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• Robert Bolt
  Robert Bolt
  Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter.-Career:He was born in Sale, Cheshire. At Manchester Grammar School his affinity for Sir Thomas More first developed. He attended the University of Manchester, and, after war service, the University of...
  
   (1924–1995): Oscar winning playwright and screenwriter who was brought up in Sale, well known for adapting Doctor Zhivago
  Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)
  Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak...
  
  and A Man for All Seasons
  A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)
  A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 film based on Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons about Sir Thomas More. It was released on December 12, 1966. Paul Scofield, who had played More in the West End stage premiere, also took the role in the film. It was directed by Fred Zinnemann, who had...
  
  for the screen.

• John Brogden
  John Brogden (industrialist)
  John Brogden was a cleansing, building and railway contractor, railway promoter, a miner of coal and iron and an iron smelter. He was brought up on a farm near Clitheroe, Lancashire. As a young man he migrated to a rapidly growing Manchester and applied his farmer's knowledge of horses as a...
  
   (1798–1869): industrialist involved in the construction of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway
  Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway
  The Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway was a suburban railway which operated a 13.7 km route between Altrincham in Cheshire and London Road Station in Manchester....
  
   who lived in Sale from the 1840s and died in the town.

• Samuel Brooks
  Samuel Brooks
  Samuel Brooks was born at Great Harwood, near Whalley in Lancashire, England, the second son of William Brooks. In 1815 he became a partner in his father’s Blackburn-based business, Cunliffe Brooks & Co. This business supplied cotton and/or textile equipment, and also ran a bank as a sideline...
  
   (1792–1864): businessman and banker who owned nearly a quarter of the township of Sale.

• William Brooks
  Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet was an English barrister, banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1869 and 1892....
  
   (1819–1900), the son of Samuel Brooks: benefactor of and land owner in Sale, and also the Member of Parliament
  Member of Parliament
  A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
  
   for Altrincham
  Altrincham (UK Parliament constituency)
  Altrincham was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1945. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :...
  
  .

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• Darren Campbell
  Darren Campbell
  Darren Andrew Campbell MBE is a former English sprint athlete. He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres, as well as the 4 × 100 metres relay...
  
   (born 1973): Olympic
  Olympic Games
  The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
  
   gold medallist who was brought up in Sale and represented Sale Harriers.
• John Collier
  John Collier (caricaturist)
  John Collier was an English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin, or Timothy Bobbin. Collier styled himself as the Lancashire Hogarth....
  
   (1708–1786): Urmston
  Urmston
  Urmston is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of around 41,000. Historically a part of Lancashire, it lies about six miles to the southwest of Manchester city centre. The southern boundary is marked by the River Mersey and the...
  
  -born caricaturist and Lancashire dialect
  Lancashire dialect and accent
  Lancashire dialect and accent refers to the vernacular speech in Lancashire, one of the counties of England. Simon Elmes' book Talking for Britain said that Lancashire dialect is now much less common than it once was, but it is not yet extinct...
  
   satirical poet, also known by the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin.
• Thomas Coward
  Thomas Coward
  Thomas Alfred Coward, MSc, FZS, FRES, MBOU , was an English ornithologist and an amateur astronomer. He wrote extensively on natural history, local history and Cheshire.-Life:...
  
   (1867–1933): ornithologist who lived in Bowdon and went to school in Sale.
• Ian Curtis
  Ian Curtis
  Ian Kevin Curtis was an English singer and lyricist, famous for leading the post-punk band Joy Division. Joy Division released their debut album, Unknown Pleasures, in 1979 and recorded their follow-up, Closer, in 1980...
  
   (1956–1980): musician and singer in Joy Division
  Joy Division
  Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris .Joy Division rapidly evolved from their initial punk rock influences...
  
  , born in Old Trafford and lived in Macclesfield
  Macclesfield
  Macclesfield is a market town within the unitary authority of Cheshire East, the county palatine of Chester, also known as the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The population of the Macclesfield urban sub-area at the time of the 2001 census was 50,688...
  
  .

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• Ronald Gow
  Ronald Gow
  Ronald Gow was an English dramatist, best known for Love on the Dole .Born in Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire, the son of a bank manager, Gow attended Altrincham County High School. After training as a chemist, he returned to his old school as a teacher...
  
   (1897–1993): dramatist and author of Love on the Dole
  Love on the Dole
  Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film.-The novel:...
  
  who lived in Altrincham, attending and later teaching at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys
  Altrincham Grammar School For Boys
  -Admissions:The school is non-fee paying with admission via an entrance exam. It had foundation school status which allowed a degree of independence from the local education authority, but from 2011 under the UK Government's Free School Programme it attained Academy status.-Foundation:The school...
  
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• Les Graham
  Leslie Graham (footballer)
  Leslie 'Les' Graham was an English professional footballer and manager.An inside-forward, Graham began his career at Blackburn Rovers where he made 150 Football League appearances. He joined Newport County in 1952 and made 96 appearances, scoring 39 goals...
  
  , footballer and football manager was born in Flixton, Greater Manchester
  Flixton, Greater Manchester
  Flixton is a village and electoral ward within the Urmston area of the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. It lies about six miles to the southwest of Manchester city centre, within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.Flixton's present-day population is...
  
  . He made 150 football league appearances for 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....
  
  

• David Gray
  David Gray (musician)
  David Gray is an English singer-songwriter. He released his first studio album in 1993 and received worldwide attention after the release of White Ladder six years later...
  
   (born 1968): singer-songwriter who lived in Sale until moving to Wales at age nine.

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• William Stanley Houghton
  William Stanley Houghton
  Stanley Houghton was an English playwright. He was a prominent member, together with Allan Monkhouse and Harold Brighouse, of a group known as the Manchester School of dramatists...
  
   (1881–1913): a playwright in the Manchester School
  Manchester School (writers)
  The "Manchester School" is a term applied to a number of playwrights from Manchester, England, who were active in the early 20th century. The leading figures in the group were Harold Brighouse, Stanley Houghton and Allan Monkhouse. They were championed by Annie Horniman, owner of the Gaiety...
  
   of dramatists who was born and raised in Ashton upon Mersey.

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• James Prescott Joule
  James Prescott Joule
  James Prescott Joule FRS was an English physicist and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work . This led to the theory of conservation of energy, which led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The...
  
   (1818–1889): the physicist who developed the first law of thermodynamics
  First law of thermodynamics
  The first law of thermodynamics is an expression of the principle of conservation of work.The law states that energy can be transformed, i.e. changed from one form to another, but cannot be created nor destroyed...
  
   moved to Sale in the 1870s for his health and remained there for the rest of his life.

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• Karl Pilkington
  Karl Pilkington
  Karl Pilkington is a British podcaster, author, television personality and former radio producer. He is best known for the Sky travel series, An Idiot Abroad, which was also presented in the United States on the Science Channel, in Canada on Discovery Channel and in Australia on One HD, and The...
  
   (born 1972): Podcaster, author and former radio producer who was brought up in a council estate in Sale next door to scruffy Sandra, he worked nights which made 'im bald n' that. Then he knocked about learnin' 'bout little hairy gay chinese monkeys alright? S'alright innit'?

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• Joseph Makinson
  Joseph Makinson
  Joseph Makinson was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1856 to 1873....
  
   (1886–1914): 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 Lancashire County Cricket Club
  Lancashire County Cricket Club
  Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...
  
   and Cambridge University
  Cambridge University Cricket Club
  Cambridge University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team. It now plays all but one of its first-class cricket matches as part of the Cambridge University Centre of Cricketing Excellence , which includes Anglia Ruskin University...
  
   in the 19th century; lived in Sale towards the end of his life.

• Diane Modahl
  Diane Modahl
  Diane Modahl, née Edwards is an English former middle distance runner.Originally from Manchester, of Jamaican parents, she was 800 m champion in the Commonwealth Games of 1990. She competed in four Olympic Games: 1988 in Seoul, 1992 in Barcelona, 1996 in Atlanta, and 2000 in Sydney...
  
   (born 1964): Commonwealth Games
  Commonwealth Games
  The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....
  
   gold medalist and Sale Harriers athlete who lived in Sale.

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• Stanley Orme
  Stanley Orme, Baron Orme
  Stanley Orme, Baron Orme PC was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1997, and served as a cabinet minister in the 1970s.-Early life:Stan Orme was born in Sale, Cheshire...
  
   (1923–2005): left-wing Member of Parliament
  Member of Parliament
  A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
  
  , cabinet
  Cabinet (government)
  A Cabinet is a body of high ranking government officials, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council, or an Executive Committee.- Overview :...
  
   minister, and Baron Orme, of Salford, who was born in Sale.

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• Marc Riley
  Marc Riley
  Marc Riley is a British musician, alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC 6 Music. Formerly a member of The Fall, he had his own record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger...
  
   (born 1959): radio presenter and former host of the BBC Radio 1
  BBC Radio 1
  BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
  
   Breakfast show
  Radio 1 Breakfast Show presenters
  Here is a list of presenters on BBC Radio 1's 'Breakfast Show' slot, from 1967–present.The longest serving Radio 1 Breakfast Show presenter is Chris Moyles, with The Chris Moyles Show, who took over the title from Tony Blackburn on 7 September 2009. He is under contract at Radio 1 until 2014....
  
   who lived in Sale.

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• Dodie Smith
  Dodie Smith
  Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith was an English novelist and playwright. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking....
  
   (1896–1990): author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians
  The Hundred and One Dalmatians
  The Hundred and One Dalmatians, or the Great Dog Robbery is a 1956 children's novel by Dodie Smith. A sequel entitled The Starlight Barking continues from the end of the first novel....
  
  who was born in Whitefield
  Whitefield, Greater Manchester
  Whitefield is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on undulating ground in the Irwell Valley, along the south bank of the River Irwell, south-southeast of Bury, and to the north-northwest of the city of Manchester...
  
   and grew up in Old Trafford; there is a blue plaque on her childhood home at 609 Stretford Road.

• Bill Speakman
  Bill Speakman
  William Speakman-Pitt, VC is a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the first man to receive a VC from Queen Elizabeth II. He is one of the five living...
  
   (born 1927): recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1951 for service in the Korean War
  Korean War
  The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
  
   who grew up and lived in Hale.

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• William Taylor
  William Taylor (Worcestershire cricketer)
  William Herbert Taylor was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler who played 107 times for Worcestershire between 1909 and 1925, captaining the county in 1914, 1919 and 1922...
  
   (1885–1959): 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 for Worcestershire County Cricket Club
  Worcestershire County Cricket Club
  Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire...
  
  , born in Sale.

• Peter Tinniswood
  Peter Tinniswood
  Peter Tinniswood was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular cricketing novels...
  
   (1936–2003): radio and television script-writer who was brought up in Sale.

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• Alison Uttley
  Alison Uttley
  Alison Uttley , née Alice Jane Taylor, was a prolific British writer of over 100 books. She is now best known for her children's series about Little Grey Rabbit, and Sam Pig....
  
   (1884–1976): prolific author who wrote the Little Grey Rabbit books while living in Bowdon.

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• Cyril Washbrook
  Cyril Washbrook
  Cyril Washbrook was an English cricketer, who played for Lancashire and England. He had a long career, split by World War II, and ending when he was aged 44. Washbrook, who is most famous for opening the batting for England with Len Hutton, which he did fifty one times, played a total of 592...
  
   (1914–1999): England and Lancashire County Cricket Club cricket
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
  
  er who lived in Sale towards the end of his life.

• Dr Charles White
  Charles White (physician)
  Charles White FRS was an English physician and a co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, along with local industrialist Joseph Bancroft...
  
   – co-founder of the Manchester Royal Infirmary
  Manchester Royal Infirmary
  The Manchester Royal Infirmary is a hospital in Manchester, England which was founded by Charles White in 1752 as a cottage hospital capable of caring for twelve patients. Manchester Royal Infirmary is part of a larger NHS Trust incorporating several hospitals called Central Manchester University...
  
   who lived in Sale and held the remains of Hannah Beswick (the Manchester Mummy
  Manchester Mummy
  Hannah Beswick , of Birchin Bower, Hollinwood, Oldham, England, was a wealthy woman who had a pathological fear of premature burial...
  
  ).

List of people without biographies

• George Faulkner Armitage – architect who grew up in Altrincham and was mayor of the town.

• Eric Greenhalgh – first-class cricketer born in Sale who represented Lancashire.