- Hazel Blears
Hazel Anne Blears MP (born May 14, 1956) is a British politician and is the Labour Member of Parliament for Salford. She was Minister without Portfolio and Labour Party Chair between May 5 2006 and June 24, 2007. Since June 27, 2007 she has served as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
- Ryan Giggs
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs became an Ambassador for UNICEF UK in August 2006 in recognition of his personal support for the organisation's work with children. On tour in South Africa in July 2006 Ryan learnt about the major challenges faced by the nation's children including HIV/AIDS and violence. Ryan Giggs ' appointment as an Ambassador follows his six-year commitment to UNICEF through Manchester United's "United for UNICEF" partnership.
- Bernard Sumner
Bernard Sumner (born Bernard Dicken, 4 January 1956 in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, England, and also known as Bernard Albrecht) is a British guitarist and keyboardist, originally with Joy Division. After the May 1980 suicide of Joy Division's vocalist, Ian Curtis, Sumner and remaining bandmates Peter Hook and Stephen Morris started a new band named New Order, later taking in Gillian Gilbert.
- L. S. Lowry
Laurence Stephen Lowry was an English artist born in Barratt Street, Stretford, near the city of Manchester. Many of his drawings and paintings depict Salford and surrounding areas, including Pendlebury where he lived and worked for well over thirty years. Lowry is famous for painting scenes of life in the industrial districts of northern England during the early 20th century.
- Russell Watson
Russell Watson (born on 24 November 1966) is a British tenor from England who has released singles and albums of both operatic-style and pop songs. An album planned for November 2006 was delayed due to the removal of a benign brain tumour. This latest album, entitled "That's Life", was eventually released on 5 March 2007.
- John Cooper Clarke
John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is an English performance poet from Salford, Greater Manchester. He is often referred to as a punk poet, having initially achieved recognition in the late 1970s amidst the flourishing punk movement. His recorded output has mainly centred around musical backing from The Invisible Girls, which featured Martin Hannett, Pete Shelley, Bill Nelson and Steve Hopkins.
- David Hodgson
David Hodgson is a winger for the Salford City Reds rugby league team. He has represented Great Britain, England and Yorkshire. David began his career at Halifax in 1999, before moving to Wigan in 2000, a tribunal fixing a £45,000 fee. In 2003 he was Wigan’s top try scorer with 20. Prior to joining Salford he had made 122 Super League appearances in which time he scored 48 tries. David signed for the Reds from Wigan when his contract was up at the end of 2004.
- Gerry Sutcliffe
Gerard Sutcliffe (born May 13, 1953), known as Gerry Sutcliffe, is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford South and a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Born in Salford, Sutcliffe was educated in Bradford at Cardinal Hinsley Grammar School, but left aged sixteen, and then worked as a salesman and for a printers company, …
- Peter Hook
Peter "Hooky" Hook (born February 13, 1956 in Salford, Lancashire) is an English bass player. He was a co-founder of the post-punk band Joy Division along with Bernard Sumner in the mid-1970s. Following the death of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, the band reformed as New Order, and Hook has played the bass with them throughout their career. He has also recorded two albums each with the bands Revenge and Monaco (both as bassist, keyboardist and lead vocalist).
- John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson OBE has been chairman of Salford City Reds rugby league club since 1982. He also owns the Cebora steel company, who were the main shirt sponsers of the Salford City Reds until 2006, when they were replaced by The Trafford Centre (although Cebora remain a minor shirt sponsor for the Reds.) He was given an OBE in 2005 for Services to the City of Salford and is also a Trustee of The Salfordian hotel in Southport.
- Michael Vaughan
Michael Paul Vaughan OBE (Born 29 October 1974 in Eccles, Salford, England) is an English cricketer, who captains the England cricket team in test matches and also plays county cricket for Yorkshire. With the June 11 2007 test victory over the West Indies, Vaughan has captained England to more Test wins than any of his predecessors.
- Shaun Ryder
Shaun Ryder (aka X) (born Shaun William Ryder on August 23, 1962, in Little Hulton, near Salford, Lancashire) is an English singer and songwriter and an ex postman who became famous in the "Madchester" era band Happy Mondays. His lyrics, dismissed by some as drug induced gibberish, also received critical praise for their wit and musical fusion with the sound of the band.
- Albert Finney
Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated English actor of Irish descent. Hailed as a "second Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950's, Finney rose to movie star fame in the early 1960's. Although his early fame was later tempered by long absences from major motion pictures, he continues to earn awards and acclaim in a varied 50-year career on stage, films, and television.
- Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson (born 18 February 1953) is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire. With the exception of five years, he grew up in Liverpool. He graduated from the University of York in 1974. In the 1970s he edited the poetry magazine "Perfect Bound" and helped organize several Cambridge International Poetry Festivals. He was awarded a doctorate in 1981 for a thesis on the poetry of Donald Davie, Roy Fisher and Charles Tomlinson.
- Graham Brady
Graham Brady was born in Salford in 1967. He was educated at Altrincham Grammar School and Durham University where he studied law. Graham first became active in the Conservative party when aged 16 he joined a campaign to save the local grammar schools. Prior to entering Parliament in 1997 Graham was Public Affairs Director at the Waterfront Partnership. He had previously worked at the Centre for Policy Studies and Shandwick Plc.
- Mark Hendrick
Mark Phillip Hendrick (born November 2, 1958) British politician and is the Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Preston. Mark Hendrick, who is half-Somali, was born in Salford, …
- Jamie Moore
Jamie Moore (born 4 November, 1978 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England) is a professional boxer who lives in Walkden, Salford. Moore fights at Light Middleweight division but could compete at divisions either side.
- James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule, FRS (December 24, 1818 - October 11, 1889) was an English physicist, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy). This led to the theory of conservation of energy, which led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named after him. He worked with Lord Kelvin to develop the absolute scale of temperature, …
- John Anderson
John Anderson, (born October 11, 1921 in Salford, Lancashire), was an English football player. Anderson was a winger with Manchester United whose career started in 1946. He helped the club win the 1948 FA Cup with a goal in the final against Blackpool.
- Karl Fitzpatrick
Karl Fitzpatrick is a full back for the Salford City Reds rugby league team. Karl was originally a scrum half before he switched to full back. He is a product of Wigan St Pats. Fitzpatrick began his professional career at Widnes Vikings, followed by spells at Tonneins (France) and Swinton Lions. Karl signed for Salford in 2003. In 2004, Karl represented Ireland in the European Nation’s Cup and also picked up the most improved player award at Salford.
- Shelagh Delaney
Shelagh Delaney (born November 25, 1939), is a British playwright of Irish descent, best known for her debut work, "A Taste Of Honey". Born in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, she attended three different primary schools. After failing the eleven-plus examination to qualify for grammar school, she went to Broughton Secondary School, where she saw her first stage production, an amateur performance of Shakespeare's "Othello".
- Sydney Chapman
Sydney Chapman (January 29 1888 - June 16 1970) was a British mathematician, astronomer and geophysicist. He was born in Manchester and educated at the Royal Technical Institute, Salford (now the University of Salford), the universities of Manchester and Cambridge, where he read mathematics. He held the Beyer Chair of Applied Mathematics at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1919 to 1924. In his professional life he specialised in mathematics, …
- Ayub Khan-Din
Ayub Khan-Din (1961 -) is a playwright and actor, who was born in Salford, Lancashire, England. As an actor, Khan-Din is best-known for the role of Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" (1987). He is also an award-winning playwright, best known for "East is East" which was also released as a film in 1999, starring Om Puri. His latest work, the play "Rafta, Rafta...", is a comic adaptation of "All in Good Time", …
- Danny Simpson
Daniel "Danny" Simpson (born January 4, 1987) is an English football player who plays right fullback. He was born in Salford, Greater Manchester. As a youth he played for Parkwyddn A.F.C. in Eccles before being picked up by Manchester United. Simpson is a product of the Manchester United youth system, having come up through the ranks into the reserve squad in 2005. He has yet to make an appearance for the first team. In early January 2006 he was sent on loan, …
- Mark Edmondson
Mark Edmonson (born Nov 3 1979 in Lancaster, England) is an English rugby league player who plays for the Salford City Reds. Edmondson plays either front row or back row positions. He played for Vale of Lune RUFC and St Helens from 1997 to 2005. He played several matches in the NRL for the Sydney Roosters. He has now returned home to play for Salford after his time spent down under in the NRL. His time in the NRL did not see him gain much on-field game time.
- Eddie Colman
Eddie Colman (November 1 1936 - February 6 1958) was an English football player and one of the eight Manchester United players that lost their lives in the Munich air disaster. Colman was born in Salford and joined the Manchester United's youth team on leaving school in the summer of 1952. He became a first-team member during the 1955-56 season. Over the next two-and-a-half years he made 107 first-team appearances, scoring two goals, …
- John Thomson
John Patrick Thomson (born Patrick Francis McAleer, April 2, 1969) is an English actor and stand-up comedian, known for his roles in "The Fast Show" and "Cold Feet".
- Bobbie Goulding
Bobbie Goulding is a former Great Britain international half-back turned coach. He is currently not in work as a coach after leaving his post at Rochdale Hornets in November 2005, citing frustration at the club's financial problems. During his two seasons in charge at the National League One club he had not had a proper contract, despite impressing and twice being nominated for coach of the year.
- Lance Todd
Lance Todd was a Rugby League player, who arrived in Britain with the New Zealand tourists in 1907. He was signed by Wigan during the tour, and he became an outstanding centre, making 185 appearances for the club. Sharing in Wigan's inaugural Championship success in 1908/09, he was also a member of the first Wigan Challenge Cup Final line-up, which they lost to Broughton Rangers in 1911. During November 1910, he played twice for Lancashire, …
- Phil Bardsley
Phillip "Phil" Anthony Bardsley (born 28 June 1985 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is an English footballer (although he is also eligible to play for Scotland). He attended Hope High School, Salford, along with former United team-mates Mark Howard and Mark Redshaw. Bardsley started his career with Charlestown Lads Club before signing for Manchester United. Bardsley currently plays for FA Premier League club Aston Villa on loan from Manchester United.
- Gary Titley
Gary Titley (born January 19, 1950 in Salford, Greater Manchester) is a British politician, currently leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP) and Labour Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West of England. He is a former director of the West Midlands Enterprise Board and chaired the West Midlands Co-op Finance Company and the Black Country Co-op Development Agency.
- Tim Burgess
Tim Burgess (born Timothy Allan Burgess on May 30 1967, in Salford, Lancashire, England) is the lead singer of British rock/indie act The Charlatans. He joined the Charlatans in 1989 and was signed, with the band, by Beggars Banquet Records in 1990. Prior to this he was the lead singer in The Electric Crayons. Tim also Featured on Saint Etienne's 1993 Christmas single "I was born on Christmas day".
- Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton (born 22 February, 1943 in Salford, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England) is a British literary critic.
- Lawrence Cunliffe
Lawrence Cunliffe (born 25 March 1929, in Walkden, near Salford, Lancashire, England) is a British Labour Party politician. He served as Member of Parliament for Leigh from 1979 until he retired from the House of Commons at the 2001 general election. Before entering Parliament he was a National Coal Board engineer, were he became involved in the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
- Andy Gregory
Andrew Gregory is a former rugby league footballer. Gregory was born in Wigan and having played junior rugby league in the town, Gregory played for Widnes and Warrington before signing for Wigan in 1986 for a reported £130,000. He played a big part in the inaugural World Club Challenge win over Manly in 1987 and although he was only small in height he dominated games on the field from scrum half.
- Liam Spencer
Liam Spencer (1964-) is an English artist. He was born in Burnley, Lancashire, and hence a lot of his paintings focus on areas in and around Manchester, such as "Crown Chippy, Rawtenstall" (2003), "Salford Panorama" (2000), "Time Square, New York" (2003). He has however, painted other parts of the world, such as a number of paintings which focus on New York City, Venice, Hong Kong, Shanghai and some in France and Spain.
- William Roberts
William "Bill" Roberts (April 5, 1912 - December 5, 2001) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Salford, Lancashire, William Roberts won the British AAA championships in 440 yd in 1935 and 1937. At the 1934 British Empire Games, Roberts finished second in 440 yd behind Godfrey Rampling, but turned the silver into the gold medal in the next British Empire Games in 1938 in Sydney, Australia.
- Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the founders of the British suffragette movement. It is the name of "Mrs Pankhurst", more than any other, which is associated with the struggle for the enfranchisement of women in the period immediately preceding World War I.
- David Watkins
David Watkins (March 5, 1942, Blaina, Monmouthshire) was a dual code international playing both rugby union and rugby league between 1967 and 1983. He is the only player to have captained both the British Lions rugby union side and the Great Britain Lions rugby league team. He joined Newport RUFC in 1961/2 from Cwmcelyn Youth but played odd games for Ebbw Vale and Pontypool while still a youth. He became a Wales Youth International.
- Al Read
Al Read was a famous British radio comedian active throughout the 1950s and 60s. He was born on the 3rd of March, 1909 in Salford,then in Lancashire now part of Greater Manchester and was a sausage maker in his fathers business. He became known as a popular after dinner speaker with wry and well observed humour in clubs.In 1950 Al had his debut on the BBC.