As one of the larger towns in the UK Stockport and its surrounding areas have had many notable residents throughout their history including those as diverse as novelist Christopher Isherwood, engineer Sir Joseph Whitworth, tennis player Fred Perry, Judge John Bradshaw and architect Norman Foster
List of notable residents of Stockport
This is a list of notable people who are current or former residents of the town of Stockport, England.
Theatre, Films and TV edit
- Sidney Gilliat (film director)
- Simon Stephens (playwright)
TV Presenters edit
- Joan Bakewell (TV presenter)
- Judith Chalmers (TV presenter)
- Katie Derham (newsreader)
- David Dickinson (TV presenter)
- Judy Finnigan (TV presenter)
- Yvette Fielding (TV presenter)
- Cash Peters (author & television and radio presenter)
- Tess Daly (TV presenter)
Actors edit
- Helen Atkinson-Wood (actor)
- Peter Butterworth (actor)
- Roger Brierley (actor)
- Simon Gregson (soap opera actor)
- Wendy Hiller (actress)
- Sally Lindsay (actress)
- Will Mellor (actor)
- John Mahoney (actor, Frasier)
- Tim McInnerny (actor)
- Dominic Monaghan (actor)
- Gabrielle Ray (actress)
- Sabrina (actress) (real name Norma Anne Sykes, model and actress)
- Samantha Siddall (actress)
- Bill Tarmey (actor)
- Joanne Whalley (actress)
Comedy edit
- Craig Cash (TV Writer/Actor)
- Mike Yarwood (comedian)
Music edit
- Bill Hopkins (composer)
- Paul Morley (music journalist, critic, indie label founder)
Musicians edit
- Sarah Harding (member of pop group Girls Aloud)
- Dom Howard (musician)
- Emma Morton-Smith (singer)
- Daz Sampson (DJ Daz) (rapper, DJ, Eurovision contestant, member of Uniting Nations)
- Jon Thorne (double bass player)
- Ian Roberts (DJ)
- Mr. Scruff (producer, recording artist and DJ)
- Tome Lowe (singer and actor)
- Geoff Downes (musician)
- Eric Haydock (guitarist)
- Barb Jungr (singer)
Bands edit
- 10cc (band)
- Hotlegs (band)
- Northern Uproar (1990s band)
- World of Twist (band)
Engineers, Mathematicians and Scientists edit
- Sir Joseph Whitworth (engineer & entrepreneur)
- Frederick Williams (pioneer of the computer)
- Samuel Oldknow (cotton manufacturing pioneer)
- William Walmsley (founder of the Swallow Sidecar Company)
- William Edge (mathematician)
Sportsmen/Sportswomen edit
- John Amaechi (NBA basketballer)
- James Hickman (Olympic swimmer)
- Fred Perry (tennis player)
- Peter Boardman (mountaineer)
- Maurice Tremlett (cricketer)
- Steve Thomas (ice hockey player (Canada))
- Dave Ridgway (Canadian footballer)
- Ian Heaps (former World Coarse Fishing Champion)
Football edit
- Daniel Ellis (footballer)
- Billy Kellock ((footballer)
- Robert Sissons (footballer)
- Paul Warhurst (footballer)
Writers edit
- Christopher Isherwood (novelist)
- Tibor Fischer (novelist)
- Samuel Beal (scholar)
- Edmund Cooper (poet and writer)
- Julian Turner (poet and mental health worker)
Others edit
- Driver John Axon GC (locomotive driver and posthumous recipient of George Cross)
- Rahan Arshad (convicted murderer)
- Sir George Back (Admiral)
- John Bradshaw (judge in trial of Charles I)
- Richard Cobden (politician)
- John Goto (photographer)
- Alex Sanders (Wiccan)
- Sir Edmund Shaa (Lord Mayor of London)
- John Davenport Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth (motoring pioneer and founder of Armstrong Siddeley)
- Judith Ward (wrongfully convicted of series of Provisional IRA bombings)
- Charles Webster Leadbeater (clergyman and clairvoyant)
- Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley (barrister and politician)
- Norman Foster (architect)
- Stanley Clifford-Smith (artist)
- William Houldsworth (mill owner and MP)