- Brian Noble
Brian Noble, known as 'Nobby', is a former rugby league player who is currently the head coach of the Wigan Warriors - whom he joined from Bradford - and is the former coach of the Great Britain National Rugby League team. Brian Noble's early rugby league career was as a member of the Police Boys' Clubs before he signed for Bradford Northern (now Bradford Bulls).
- Gareth Gates
Gareth Paul Gates (born July 12, 1984, Bradford, England) is an English pop singer who shot to fame in 2002 when he came second in the first series of the ITV talent show "Pop Idol". Gates is also known for overcoming his severe stammer through the McGuire Programme, qualifying as a speech coach in 2004. So far he has sold 3.5 million singles & albums in the UK alone.
- Julian Rhodes
Julian Rhodes is the Chairman of Bradford City Football Club. He was born in Bradford. He studied at Huddersfield Polytechnic. Julian plays the guitar remarkably well and can mimic any tune be it on drums of guitar. His first car was a battered Ford Capri that had been once towed around town by a Polo after a drunken student had urinated into the petrol tank. I certainly will never forget the times shared in a student house together in constant surrounding of humor.
- David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop Art of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
- Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson (born 6 April 1961 in Bradford, England) is a former footballer and football manager formerly in charge of Coca-Cola League One side Huddersfield Town. He played as a central defender for Bradford City, Newcastle United, Huddersfield Town, Chester City and Halifax Town. He returned to Huddersfield Town when they gave him the opportunity to become manager in October 1997 replacing Brian Horton. He was assisted by former Welsh manager Terry Yorath.
- Junior Witter
Junior Witter (born March 10, 1974) is a professional boxer from Bradford in England. He is currently the WBC world light-welterweight champion, and has been a European, British and Commonwealth Light-Welterweight champion. On September 15, 2006, he defeated DeMarcus Corley on points to win the WBC world light-welterweight crown.
- Titus Salt
Sir Titus Salt (20 September 1803 - 29 December 1876), born in Morley, was a manufacturer and benefactor in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. His father Daniel Salt was a fairly successful businessman and was able to send Titus to Heath Grammar School in nearby Halifax. He attended Batley Grammar School before starting work as a wool-stapler in Wakefield, where he lived on the manor farm in Crofton, …
- Richard Dunn
Richard Dunn (born January 19 1945) is an English boxer who unsuccessfully fought Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight title in 1976. Ali knocked Dunn out in the fifth round and this was the last knockout he ever scored. Although seriously overmatched, many British fans have said that Dunn made one of the most courageous showings of any British fighter when he faced Ali. A sports centre is named after Dunn in his home town of Bradford in honour of his achievements.
- Chris Brandon
Christopher William Brandon (born April 7 1976 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is an English professional footballer currently playing for Huddersfield Town.
- Terry Rooney
Terence Henry Rooney (born 11 November 1950) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is a Labour Member of Parliament for Bradford North, and is the only member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints- also known as Mormons - in the British House of Commons. Terry Rooney is also a member of Labour Friends of Israel.
- J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September, 1894, Bradford - 14 August, 1984, Warwickshire) was an English writer and broadcaster
- Anthony McGrath
Anthony McGrath (born October 6 1975 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer, who plays county cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He is a right handed batsman and bowls part-time right-arm medium pace.
- Terry Dolan
Terence Peter "Terry" Dolan (born June 11 1950 in Bradford, England) is an English former footballer and manager.
- Kimberley Walsh
Kimberley Jane Walsh (born November 20 1981) is an English singer and member of pop group Girls Aloud.
- Richard Whiteley
John Richard Whiteley, OBE, DL (28 December 1943 - 26 June 2005) was an English television presenter and journalist. He was most famous for his 23-year stint as presenter of "Countdown", a letters and numbers arrangement game show broadcast daily on Channel 4. An edition of "Countdown" was the launch programme for Channel 4 at 4:45pm on 2 November 1982, and Whiteley was the first person to be seen on the channel, discounting a programme montage.
- Joolz Denby
Joolz Denby (9th April 1955) (previously more widely known simply as Joolz) is a poet and novelist and artist based out of Bradford, UK. Initially, known simply as Joolz, Denby first gained recognition for herself as a touring "punk" performance poet one of the first to gain recognition in modern times, and one of the only women to do so, She now does not consider herself a 'performance poet' as the style has changed radically since she began performing, …
- Ken Morrison
Sir Kenneth Duncan Morrison CBE (born 20 October 1931) is the executive chairman of Morrisons (Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc), the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom. He is the youngest child of the late William Murdoch Morrison and Hilda Morrison, who owned a small grocery chain set up in 1899. He was born in Bradford, and was brought up by five elder sisters. Whilst the family business was named after his father, …
- Basil Richards
Basil Richards is the Assistant Coach at the Bradford Bulls Bradford born Basil signed for Warrington as a junior and went on to play for both Huddersfield and Doncaster before coaching at Queensbury with his brother, former Bradford player, Craig. He joined the Bulls three years ago as a part time Coach and joined the club full time early last season following the departure of Phil Veivers.
- Mike Williams
Michael "Mike" Williams is a professional footballer, who played for a number of teams during the 1990s, but is mostly remembered for his time at Sheffield Wednesday.
- Joe Brown
Joseph William "Joe" Brown (born April 3, 1988 in Bradford, England) is an English footballer, currently a free agent after being released by Bradford City.
- Frederick Delius
Frederick Albert Theodore Delius CH (January 29 1862, - June 10, 1934) was an English composer born in Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the north of England.
- Danny Cadamarteri
Daniel Leon "Danny" Cadamarteri (born October 12, 1979 in Cleckheaton) is an English footballer, currently playing for Huddersfield Town in Coca-Cola League One. Cadamarteri is a product of the Everton F.C. Academy. He had spells at Fulham (loan), Leeds United, Sheffield United and Bradford City. On 8 December 2006, Cadamarteri signed for Conference National side Grays Athletic on non-contract terms.
- Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth (born August 6, 1946 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is a British jazz guitarist and composer. Allan Holdsworth is a jazz/fusion guitarist and is widely known for his contributions to the genre. He is acclaimed for the complexity of his compositional and improvisational work, as well as his astounding technical skill. Reviewers have compared his compositions to Liszt.The unique efficiency of his playing style, …
- Des Hamilton
Derrick Hamilton, better known as Des (born 15 August 1976 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) was an English professional football player. Hamilton came through the youth ranks at Bradford City as a promising youngster and was then taken to Newcastle United for £1,375,000 by Kenny Dalglish. He moved to Cardiff City at the end of the 2000-01 season after a disappointing spell at Newcastle which saw him loaned out to Sheffield United, Huddersfield Town and Norwich City.
- Kiki Dee
Kiki Dee (born Pauline Matthews on 6 March 1947, in Little Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a highly successful singer/songwriter, with a career that has lasted over 40 years. Her most famous song was a duet with Elton John, entitled "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", which was released in 1976 and went to Number 1. (She later performed another duet with Elton John for his "Duets" album, …
- Mark Flanagan
Mark Flanagan (born 1989 in Bradford) is an English rugby league player. He normally plays at stand off for the Super League side Wigan Warriors in England.
- Mark Hotte
Mark Hotte (born September 27, 1978 in Bradford, England) is an English football player, currently playing for Conference National side Droylsden. He joined Scarborough from Oldham Athletic in the 2001-02 season. In the 2003-04 season Mark was voted Scarborough's player of the season. In the 2005-06 he played for York City, but the following year he returned to Scarborough under new manager Mark Patterson. Hotte joined Droylsden on 25 June 2007.
- Paul Wilson
Paul Wilson (born August 2, 1968 in Bradford) was a professional footballer (he should not be confused with the famous Scots-Indian who played for Celtic) who played as a defender for Huddersfield Town, Norwich City, Northampton Town, Halifax Town, Burnley, York City, Scunthorpe United, Cambridge United & Rushden & Diamonds.
- Albert Pierrepoint
Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 - 10 July 1992) is the most famous member of a Yorkshire family who provided three of Britain's Chief Executioners in the first half of the 20th century. He lived at Clayton, Bradford, Lincoln, Oldham and the Merseyside seaside resort of Southport.
- Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn PC (October 6, 1910 - May 3, 2002) was a British left-wing politician, born Barbara Anne Betts in Chesterfield, Derbyshire (and brought up in Pontefract and Bradford, Yorkshire), who adopted her family's politics, joining the Labour Party.
- Len Shackleton
Leonard Francis Shackleton was an English footballer of the post-World War II period. He came to the attention of the talent scouts by scoring 166 goals in six years of wartime football at Bradford Park Avenue. In February, 1948, after less than two years with Newcastle United F.C., where he was transferred for £13,000, he was signed to Sunderland for a then-record fee of £20,500.
- Richard Alexander
Richard Alexander (born 3 June 1972) is an English comedian, producer and presenter.
- Andrea Dunbar
Andrea Dunbar (1961-1990) was a British playwright best known for "Rita, Sue and Bob Too", an autobiographical drama about the sexual adventures of teenage girls living in a run-down part of Bradford, England. Shelagh Delaney described Dunbar as "a genius straight from the slums". Dunbar began her first play "The Arbour" in 1977 at the age of 15, writing it as a classroom assignment.
- Ian Clough
Ian Clough (1937-1970) was a British mountaineer who was killed on an expedition to climb the south face of the Himalayan massif Annapurna.
- John Braine
John Gerard Braine (April 13, 1922 - October 28, 1986) was an English novelist. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Braine left St. Bede's Grammar School at 16 and worked in a shop, a laboratory and a factory before becoming, after the war, a librarian. Although he wrote twelve works of fiction, Braine is chiefly remembered today for his first novel, "Room at the Top" (1957), which was also turned into a successful film (1959).
- Tim Booth
Tim Booth (born Timothy John Booth, 4 February 1960, in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England) attended Shrewsbury School. He is a singer, dancer, and actor best known as the lead singer from the band, James.
- Roger Mosey
Roger Mosey (born 1958) is a British broadcasting executive who has served as Head of BBC Television News and BBC's Director of Sport. He took up the role in August 2005. His previous jobs include being Editor of Today on BBC Radio 4; Controller of BBC Radio Five Live; and, most recently, Head of BBC Television News.
- Ryan Sugden
Ryan Sugden (born December 26 1980 in Bradford) is a professional footballer, currently playing for Farsley Celtic. He was released by Morecambe at the end of the 2003/04 season and signed by Halifax on a free transfer in July 2004. In January 2007, he was given a further free transfer, this time to Farsley. Sugden is a striker who has previously played for Oldham Athletic, Scarborough, Chester City, Burton Albion, Morecambe and Halifax.
- Michael Rennie
Michael Rennie (25 August1909-10 June1971) was an English film, television and stage actor best known for his starring role as the benevolent space visitor Klaatu in the 1951 classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
- Tasmin Archer
Tasmin Archer is an English soul/pop/rock singer, known for her soulful voice. Her first record, "Great Expectations", spawned the smash hit, "Sleeping Satellite," a philosophical song about the moon landings, which reached number one in the United Kingdom. Subsequent singles and albums were less successful.