- Albert E. Richardson
Albert E. Richardson was a clockmaker from Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, who designed the first practical Teasmade. He sold the design to Frank Clarke of Birmingham, Warwickshire, who patented it.
- Geoff Hurst
Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst, MBE (born December 8, 1941 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is a legend of West Ham and England football, he is also a footballer enshrined in the game's history as the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final. His three goals came in the 1966 final for England in their 4-2 win over Germany at Wembley.
- Margaret Beckett
Margaret Mary Beckett is a British Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South. She served in government under Tony Blair, becoming the first woman to hold the office of Foreign Secretary (the second of only three women to have held one of the Great Offices of State). She was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1992 to 1994 and was briefly its Leader in 1994.
- Simone Perrotta
Simone Perrotta, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born September 17, 1977 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer midfielder, who currently plays for A.S. Roma in Serie A. He was member of the Italian national football team that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Perrotta lived in England until the age of 6, attending school at St. Ann's primary school in Ashton-under-Lyne.
- Gordon Taylor
Gordon Taylor (born 28 December 1944 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is a former footballer and current chief executive of the English footballers' trade union, the Professional Footballers Association. He is reputed to be the highest paid union official in the world. Taylor played over 250 games for Bolton Wanderers and scored more than 50 goals mostly from inside forward before being transferred to Birmingham City in 1970.
- George Formby
George Formby (now known as George Formby "Senior") (1876 - February 8 1921) was the father of ukulele playing star George Formby, and a star in his own right. Formby Senior performed in the Edwardian music halls. Singing in a sardonic, naive but somehow knowing style, plagued by ill-health (he coughed blood on stage and made light of his tuberculosis) he was one of the highest paid entertainers of his day.
- Amanda Barrie
Amanda Barrie (born Shirley Anne Broadbent on 14 September, 1935 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is an English actress.
- Ian Davies
Ian Davies, (born 1963 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, United Kingdom) is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of BackAndLay.com Limited, the private limited UK company which owns the Internet betting exchange which trades as BackAndLay. He was formerly a racing and sports betting journalist, having worked for Raceform, the Racing & Football Outlook, The Guardian, The Sporting Life, the Racing Post, TODAY, The Independent, The Independent On Sunday, and BBC Grandstand.
- Andrew Harris
Andrew Harris (born June 26, 1973 in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire) is an English cricketer, a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. Since he turned professional in 1993, "AJ" has served both Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire during his time as a player, and has to his name over 300 first-class and 150 one-day victims. In 2003 against Durham UCCE, Harris became one of only four players in the history of first-class cricket to be given out timed out.
- Arthur Brooke
Arthur Brooke was the founder of The Brooke Bond Tea Company. Brooke was born in Lancashire (now Ashton under Lyne) and opened his first tea shop at 29 Market Street, Manchester in 1869. By the age of 30 he was making over £5000 per year, with shops in the large cities and a wharehouse in London from where he supplied other tea dealers. The business grew and in 1892 it became a limited company.
- Mark Robins
Mark Gordon Robins (born December 22, 1969 in Ashton Under Lyne, England) is currently manager at Rotherham United.
- Simon Hoggart
Simon David Hoggart (born 26 May 1946) is an English journalist and broadcaster. He is the son of the sociologist Herbert Richard Hoggart and Mary Holt Hoggart. His brother is "The Times" television critic Paul Hoggart.
- Alan Wright
Alan Geoffrey Wright (born 28 September 1971 in Ashton-under-Lyne) is an English professional footballer who is currently a fre agent. He most recently played for Nottingham Forest on loan from Sheffield United. He has played over 620 league and cup games for eight clubs, including an eight year spell for Aston Villa. He has also played for Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Middlesbrough and Sheffield United plus a loan spells at Derby County, Leeds United, …
- Ronald Fraser
Ronald Fraser (11 April 1930 - March 13 1997) was an English character actor who appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s and 1960s, he also appeared in many popular TV shows. He is the father of actor Hugh Fraser. Ronald Fraser was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, the son of an interior decorator. He was educated in Scotland and did National Service as a Lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders.
- Sean Wilson
Sean Wilson (born 4 April 1965, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is an English actor, best known for his role as Martin Platt in "Coronation Street". Sean's parents divorced when he was a child and his mother remarried, and Sean left home at the age of sixteen with hopes to become a graphic designer, and worked for an advertising agency when he left school. He then went on to work at Oldham Coliseum as a set-building YTS trainee.
- Thomas Earnshaw
Thomas Earnshaw (born on February 4, 1749 in Ashton-under-Lyne - died March 1, 1829 in London) was an English watchmaker who first simplified the process of marine chronometer production, making them available to the general public. He's also known for his improvements to the transit clock at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London and his invention of the chronometer escapement and the bimetallic compensation balance.
- Danny Hall
Danny Hall (born 14 November 1983) is a football player. He is a central defender and plays for Shrewsbury Town.
- Dawn Acton
Dawn Jean Acton (born March 15, 1977 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester) is an English actress, most notable for playing Tracy Barlow in the long-running British soap "Coronation Street" for periods between 1988 and 1999. Acton was the third actress to play the Tracy Barlow character. A year before leaving the show, she gave birth to a baby boy, Thomas Kyle.
- Harry Pilling
Harry Pilling was a professional cricketer for Lancashire Cricket Club who was born in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire on the 23rd February 1943. Standing just 5 feet 3 inches tall he has the distinction of being the shortest English cricketer of modern times.
- Trevor Ross
Trevor Ross (born 16 January 1957 in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire) is an Anglo-Scottish former professional footballer, who played in midfield. Ross started his career at Arsenal, joining in 1972 as an apprentice and turning professional in 1974. He made his first-team debut against Liverpool on February 1, 1975, and was a regular in the 1975-76 and 1976-77 seasons. He was ousted out of the side by David Price at the start of the 1977-78 season, …
- Evan Leigh
Evan Leigh was an author, inventor, engineer and manufacturer of cotton spinning equipment. Born in Ashton under Lyne Lancashire in 1810, he died in Manchester, Lancashire in 1876. A portrait of Evan Leigh hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
- Bert Whalley
Bert Whalley (August 6, 1913 - February 6, 1958) was a professional footballer for Manchester United from 1935 till 1946 he then became football coach for Manchester United until he died in the 1958 Munich air disaster, aged 44. Bert was born in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, he first played for Stalybridge Celtic before making his debut for Manchester United in 1935 as a left half (midfield), the war years prevented him from playing more than the 35 times he did for them.
- Sunny Rogers
Sunny Rogers, (1913-2005), was born Jessie Mary Rogerson in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire on May 10th 1913 and is best known for her work with comedian Frankie Howerd. Her nickname 'Sunny' came about because she was forever smiling. When attending the Welbeck Street Primary School, the Headmistress wrote to her parents saying that "You really should consider sending little Jessie for dancing lessons as she entertains us all day with her singing and dancing".
- Steve Wigley
Steve Wigley (born October 15, 1961 in Ashton Under Lyne) is a former professional football player for Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Exeter. He is the former manager of Southampton F.C.
- Peter Hebblethwaite
Peter Hebblethwaite (September 30, 1930, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire - December 18, 1994, Oxford), was a British academic and critic. The son of Charles and Elsie Ann Hebblethwaite, he was a British journalist on Vatican affairs (indeed, he was regarded by many during his lifetime as the leading English-language Vaticanologist) and for some years he was a Jesuit priest. Educated in St Annes, Ashton under Lyne & Manchester where he attended a Salesian-run grammar school, …
- Jason Taylor
Jason Taylor (born January 28, 1987 in Ashton, Tameside) is an English football player. He is a central midfielder for Stockport County, whom he joined in August 2006 on a free transfer from Oldham Athletic, where he began his career. He was picked for the 2nd week of february 2007 Coca Cola team of the week
- John Louis Petit
John Louis Petit was the son of John Hayes Petit and Harriet Astley, He was born on May 31st 1801 in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge obtaining a B A in 1823 and a M A in 1826. He took Holy Orders in 1824, although he became the Reverend John Louis Petit he did not do any parochial work.
- Sue Devaney
Sue Devaney (born Susan Barber on 2 July 1967 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire) is an English actress. She has played various roles on British television including; Debbie Webster in "Coronation Street", Rita Briggs in "Jonny Briggs", Liz Harker in "Casualty" and Jane in "dinnerladies".
- Clive Gregson
Clive Gregson (born 4 January 1955 Ashton-Under-Lyne, Manchester, England) is an English singer songwriter. He first came to prominence as leader of the band Any Trouble in 1980. Between 1985 and 1992 he performed in a duo with singer Christine Collister. Together they recorded five albums. Since the split with Collister he has established himself as a performer, solo and in collaboration with artists such as Eddi Reader and Boo Hewerdine.
- Harrington Clare Lees
Harrington Clare Lees, Anglican archbishop of Melbourne. Harrington Lees, the eldest son of William Lees, J.P., Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England, and his wife, Emma Lees, (daughter of William Clare, M.D. He was educated at the Methodist The Leys School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. with a second class in the theological tripos in 1892, and M.A. in 1896. He was ordained deacon in 1893], priest in 1894, and was a curate at Reading, …
- Norman Allin
Norman Allin (19 November 1884, Ashton-under-Lyne - 27 October 1973) was a British bass singer of the early and mid twentieth century, and later a noted teacher. His operatic debut was as Hebrew in "Samson et Dalila" on 15 October 1916. With the Beecham Opera Company he appeared in "Aida" and "Samson and Delilah". He created the role of Sir John Falstaff in Holst's "At the Boar's Head".
- Derek Hall
Derek Robert Hall (born December 29, 1981 is an English former professional footballer. He was born in Ashton-under-Lyne. Hall began his career as an apprentice with Coventry City, turning professional in October 1982 and making his only league appearance for the Sky Blues later that season. He joined Torquay United on loan in March 1984, earning himself a permanent move on a free transfer at the end of the season. In July 1985 he moved to Swindon Town, …
- Kevin Randall
Kevin Randall (born August 20 1945 in Ashton-under-Lyne, England) is a former footballer and manager.
- Henry Vollam Morton
Henry Canova Vollam ("H. V.") Morton (26 July, 1892-18 June, 1979) was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Birmingham, England, best known for his prolific and popular books on Britain and the Holy Land.
- William Tarmey
William Tarmey (born William Cleworth-Piddington on April 4, 1941 in Ardwick, Manchester, Lancashire) is an English actor and singer best known for playing Jack Duckworth on the soap opera "Coronation Street", a role he has played on a continuous basis since 1983. It was announced on 4 August that William has renewed his contract to stay on Coronation Street till Autumn 2007.
- Rob Summers
Hello friends. I'm Rob and I'm brilliant. I graduated from Leeds University in summer 2006 with a 2:1 in music and maths, but have no intention of doing anything with me degree just yet. I did work at Music Zone, but got booted out in January and, after 2 months of unemployment, I landed my dream job of packing POS in a factory in Clayton.
- Andru
Hey All, I'm a 38 year old Goth. I'm gay, a Hereditary Witch and Shaman, trained medico-magickal herbalist, oracle and tarot reader, Reiki Master-Teacher Healer and preternatural/paranormal investigator.
- Billy
Meh... Me...? I'm Billy. Hello to you too. I'm fine thanks, how about you? Anyway, yeah, generally relaxed and like to have a good time. I'm a quiet person unless I like you, in which case I'll talk. However, if you're boring, don't expect any interesting comments from men, unless I decide to take the piss out of you - then you'll be pretty much my favourite person in the world at the moment in time.
- Adam
love to have a laugh with all my mates, going out clubbin n drinkin, watchin n playin football n most ov all treatin a lady! lol.
- Matt Saunders
At the moment im so excited about my future as its looking good :) I study Visual Communication p.s if you nick anything of here, i will find you and kill you.