- Peter Crouch
Peter James Crouch (born January 30 1981 in Macclesfield, Cheshire) is an English international football player. He currently plays for the English club Liverpool as a striker. His height of 2.01 m / 6 ft 7 in makes him the tallest man ever to play for either Liverpool or the England national team, as well as the tallest player currently in the Premiership. He is also known for his robotic dancing goal celebration, … - Nicholas Winterton
Sir Nicholas Raymond Winterton, (born March 31, 1938, Rugeley, Staffordshire) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Macclesfield. Sir Nicholas undertook his National Service 1957-1959 and was commissioned into the 14/20 Kings Hussars serving in Germany. - Ann Winterton
Jane Ann Winterton, Lady Winterton (born March 6, 1941 as Jane Ann Hodgson in Sutton Coldfield) is the British Member of Parliament for Congleton, and was first elected as a Conservative MP in 1983. She is married to Sir Nicholas Winterton, who is also a Conservative MP representing the neighbouring constituency of Macclesfield. She has three children with him, one daughter and two sons. - Jemal Johnson
Jemal Johnson (born 3 May, 1985 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a footballer. He is a striker currently playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers. Though born in the United States, Johnson's family moved to Macclesfield when he was five years old. Originally signed by Manchester United, Johnson joined Blackburn Rovers' Academy when he was 16. Johnson made his first team debut as a substitute in Rovers' third round FA Cup tie at Cardiff City on 8 January, 2005. - Stephen Morris
Stephen Morris (born Stephen Paul David Morris, 28 October 1957 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) was a musician in the Manchester based rock band New Order. Although he is primarily a percussionist, he also plays keyboards. He also drummed in the band from which New Order was formed, Joy Division, and in The Other Two, a band made up of Morris and his wife,Gillian Gilbert. - Richard Barker
Richard Ian Barker (born 30 May 1975 in Sheffield, England) is an English footballer, who currently plays for Hartlepool United. Barker has never played at the highest level, but is an experienced striker in the lower leagues. He is the brother of Cardiff City defender Chris Barker. Barker began his career at Sheffield Wednesday, but never played any competitive matches for the first team. He was released by the Owls in 1997, … - Kieran Lee
Kieran Lee (born June 22, 1988 in Tameside, England) is a full-back and captain of Manchester United's reserve team. A central midfielder earlier in his career, during the 2005-2006 season, the versatile Lee became a regular for the reserve team being deployed at left back although in the 06/07 season Lee has mainly played at right back. He attended West Hill School in Stalybridge. Just three days after signing a new two year contract at United, … - John Mayall
John Mayall, OBE (born November 29 1933) is a pioneering English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and has been influential in the careers of many instrumentalists, including Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya, Johnny Almond, … - Gillian Gilbert
Gillian Gilbert (born Gillian Lesley Gilbert, 27 January 1961 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) is a British keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist, best known as a member of the Manchester band New Order and a founding member of The Other Two. She is married to bandmate Stephen Morris, New Order's drummer. Gilbert and Morris have recorded as The Other Two. - Thomas Taylor
Rev. Thomas Taylor (26 February 1858 - 5 July 1938]) was a Priest, historian and scholar of Celtic culture. Taylor was born in Thurvaston, Derbyshire, England. He attended King Edward VI School, Macclesfield becoming head boy in 1874. He matriculated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1877, and graduated in the Mathematics Tripos in 1881, receiving his MA in 1886. Taylor took Holy Orders on going down from Cambridge, … - Asa Hartford
Richard 'Asa' Hartford (born in Clydebank, Scotland on 24 October 1950) was a Scottish international midfielder and talented footballer who became famous for failing a medical examination due to the discovery of a heart condition which put paid to a high profile transfer to Leeds United in November 1971. - Peter Moores
Peter Moores (born 18 December 1962 in Macclesfield) is a former English county cricketer. He played as a wicketkeeper for Worcestershire and Sussex and captained Sussex in 1997. He retired from first-class cricket in 1998 and took up coaching. Moores was a successful coach of Sussex leading the county to the 2003 County Championship. Moores coached England "A" on their tour of the West Indies in 2000-01 and the English National Cricket Academy from October 2005 to 2007. - Ben Ainslie
Ben Ainslie, MBE, (born 5 February 1977 in Macclesfield) is a British sailor and two-times Olympic gold medalist. He started sailing at the age of 4 and first competed at the age of 10. Ainslie's first International competition was the Optimist (dinghy) 1989 World Championship's held in Japan where he placed 37th. The son of Roderick 'Roddy' Ainslie, who captained a boat that took part in the first Whitbread Round The World Race in 1973, … - David Shrigley
David Shrigley is a Glasgow-based artist. Born in Macclesfield on September 17, 1968, he grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, England. He attended City of Leicester Polytechnic's Art and Design course in 1987-1988, and subsequently studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1988-1991. Although he has worked with various media, most of his work is in the form of mordantly humorous cartoons released in softcover books or postcard packs. - Mr. Scruff
Mr. Scruff is the recording name of Andy Carthy (born in 1972 in Macclesfield, England), a British DJ and artist. He is a native of Manchester, England and studied Fine Art at the Sheffield College of Art. His DJ name was inspired by his trademark loose-lined drawing style. He has been DJing since 1994, at first in and around Manchester then nationwide in the United Kingdom. He is known for DJing in marathon sets (often exceeding six hours), … - Richard Sutton
Sir Richard Sutton (d. c. 1524), the founder, with William Smyth, bishop of Lincoln, of Brasenose College, Oxford, and the first lay founder of any college. He is said to have come of a good north-country family, the Suttons of that ilk, near Macclesfield, Cheshire. Little is known of his life, but he was a barrister, and in 1499 a member of the privy council. In 1513 he became steward of the monastery of Sion, a house of Brigittine nuns at Isleworth. - Chris Nicholl
Christopher ("Chris") John Nicholl (born 12 October 1946 in Macclesfield is an English-born former footballer and manager of Northern Irish ancestry. - John Charles Ryle
John Charles Ryle (May 10, 1816 - June 10, 1900) was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. Ryle was born at Macclesfield, and was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was Craven Scholar in 1836. After holding a curacy at Exbury in Hampshire, he became rector of St Thomas's, Winchester (1843), rector of Helmingham, Suffolk (1844), vicar of Stradbroke (1861), honorary canon of Norwich (1872), and dean of Salisbury (1880). - Thomas Savage
Thomas Savage (1463 - 1508) was an English Clergyman. In 1493, he was elected Bishop of Rochester, a post he held till 1497 when he was elected Bishop of London. His last post was as Archbishop of York from 1501 to 1507, in which capacity he was responsible for the marriage ceremony of Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII, to Catherine of Aragon. Arthur died young, and his brother Henry, who became Henry VIII, then married Catherine. - James Pickford
James Pickford is an English race car driver, born 30th April 1979 in Macclesfield, Cheshire. As a child his interest was in motorbikes; his father Keith ran bike racing teams. However, as with Damon Hill his mother led him towards the relatively safe world of car racing, beginning in karts in 1994. For a while he was coached by former BTCC racer Tim Sugden. - Samuel Greg
Samuel Greg (September 6, 1804 - May 14, 1876) was an English industrialist and philanthropist. Born in Manchester, the son of the elder Samuel Greg, the creator of Quarry Bank Mill, he was brother to William Rathbone Greg and Robert Hyde Greg. Influenced by the religious beliefs of his mother Hannah, he attended a Unitarian school in Nottingham. - A Guy Called Gerald
A Guy Called Gerald is the stage name for musician, record producer and DJ Gerald Simpson from Moss Side in Manchester, United Kingdom. He has proven to be among the most innovative modern electronic music figures to emerge during the 1980s. He is perhaps best known for his early work in the Manchester acid house scene in the late 1980s and the track "Voodoo Ray". - Graham Allner
Graham Allner is a retired British footballer and football manager. He is most notable for his spell as manager of Kidderminster Harriers from 1983 until 1999. Allner began his managerial career with AP Leamington, and led them to the Southern Premier League in 1983. However, Leamington were denied promotion to the Gola League, their place being taken instead by the club that had finished second that year, Kidderminster Harriers. - Greg Scott
Greg "Greggles" Scott (born 6 March, 1969 in Macclesfield, Cheshire) is an English television presenter. - Jaime Harding
Jaime Harding (born 27 February 1975) is the lead singer of the Macclesfield based band, Marion. After enjoying minor success in the mid 1990s, the band broke up after their second album, "The Program", by this time Harding was suffering from a well documented drug problem. He briefly resurrected the name Marion in a collaboration with a friend, Wayne Ward, but a rumoured E.P. never materialised. He then proceeded to disappear from public view for a few years, … - Jonathan Agnew
Jonathan Philip Agnew (nicknamed Aggers) is an English cricket broadcaster and former professional cricketer. He was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire on April 4, 1960 and educated at Uppingham School. Agnew had a successful first-class career as a fast bowler for Leicestershire, taking 666 wickets at an average of 29.25 and winning three Test caps for England. - Marshall Lancaster
Marshall Lancaster (born 5 October 1974 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) is a British actor. He has appeared in many television dramas, including "Coronation Street", "Holby City" and "Family Affairs", but is probably best known for playing DC Chris Skelton in the BBC time travel drama, "Life on Mars". He will reprise the role of Skelton in the forthcoming spin-off series, "Ashes to Ashes". - Guy Edwards
Guy Richard Goronwy Edwards (born in Macclesfield, Cheshire on December 30, 1942) is a former racing driver from England. He participated in 17 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on January 13, 1974. He scored no championship points. He competed in the Aurora Formula One Championship in the UK from 1978 to 1980, scoring several wins and driving March, Fittipaldi and Arrows chassis. In 1979 he scored the only race win for a Fittipaldi Formula One chassis. - Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain was an English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir "Testament of Youth," recounting her experiences during World War I and the growth of her ideology of Christian pacifism. Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the daughter of a well-to-do family, and had an uneventful childhood with her only brother her closest companion. - Arthur Smith Woodward
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward (May 23, 1864 - September 2, 1944) was an English paleontologist. Woodward was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England and was educated there and at Owens College, Manchester. He joined the staff of the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1882. He became assistant Keeper of Geology in 1892, and Keeper in 1901. He was appointed Secretary of the Palaeontographical Society and in 1904, … - George Long
George Long (November 4, 1800 - August 10, 1879), English classical scholar, was born at Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, and educated at Macclesfield grammar-school and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Craven university scholar in 1821 (bracketed with Lord Macaulay and Henry Maiden), wrangler and senior chancellor's medallist in 1822 and became a fellow of Trinity in 1823. - George Darling
George Darling, Baron Darling of Hillsborough, PC (20 July 1905-18 October 1985) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough from 1950 to 1974. Darling was educated at elementary school and Liverpool University, later attending Cambridge University where he graduated in economics. He was a journalist and Head of research and information of the Co-operative Wholesale Society from 1930 to 1937. - Fred Blackburn
Fred Blackburn (29 July 1902 - 1 May 1990) was a British Labour politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde in the 1951 general election. Blackburn was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, St. John's College, Battersea and Manchester University. He became a teacher of modern languages and careers master at North Manchester High School. - Jean Alexander
Jean Alexander (born February 24, 1926 in Liverpool, Lancashire) is an English television actress. She is best known to British television viewers as Hilda Ogden on the soap opera "Coronation Street". Although she always had aspirations to become an actress, she began her working life as a library assistant in Liverpool, but after five years the pull of the theatre became irresistible. She began her acting career in 1949 at the Adelphi Guild Theatre in Macclesfield, … - Walter Bromley-Davenport
Lt-Col Sir Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport TD DL (1903 - 26 December 1989) was a British Conservative Party politician. The son of Walter A. Bromley-Davenport, of Capesthorne Hall, Macclesfield, Cheshire, and Lilian Lane, he was educated at Malvern School. He joined the Grenadier Guards in 1922 and at the outbreak of World War II he raised and commanded the 5th Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Knutsford from 1945 until 1970, … - Samuel Davenport
Sir Samuel Davenport KCMG (March 5, 1818 – September 3, 1906) was a landowner and parliamentarian. He was fourth son of George Davenport, a wealthy English banker, and his wife Jane Devereux, "née" Davies. George, his father, had become an agent of the South Australia Company in England and together with partners Frederick Luck (quarter share) and Roger Cunliffe (one-eighth share) paid £4416 for a special survey of 4416 acres (16.19 km²) in South Australia. - Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper (born 5 April 1952) is a British radio presenter and producer. Cooper joined the radio industry in 1972, working briefly as a studio engineer for the Netherlands offshore pirate radio station Radio Veronica. Moving to the BBC, Cooper was a radio presenter and newsreader for BBC Radio 2, where his duties included reading the news, the Shipping Forecast and presenting 'Music Through Midnight' and 'The Early Show'. - Francis Goodwin
Francis Goodwin was an English architect, best known for his many provincial churches in the Gothic revival style, civic buildings such as the first Manchester Town Hall (1819–1834) and Macclesfield town hall (1823), plus country houses such as Lissadell House, County Sligo (1833). Goodwin was born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, and became a pupil of J. Coxedge of Kensington. He exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1806 an "Internal View of St. Nicholas' Chapel, Lynn". - Montague Burton
Sir Montague Maurice Burton (15 August 1885, Lithuania - 21 September1952, Harrogate) founded one of Great Britain's largest chains of clothes shops. Born a Lithuanian Jew (Moshe Osinsky), he came alone to England in 1900. In 1901, he was staying in Cheetham, Manchester. He later set up as a general outfitter in Chesterfield in 1903, and had five men's tailor shops with headquarters in Sheffield and manufacturing in Leeds by 1913. - Kenneth Lomas
Kenneth Lomas (16 November 1922 - 15 July 2000) was a British Labour Party politician. Lomas was educated in Ashton under Lyne and served in the Royal Marines 1942-46 including in the Commando Group. He worked for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers then as assistant regional organiser of the National Blood Transfusion Service. He was branch secretary for the National Union of Public Employees.
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