Stockport

Stockport is a town in Greater Manchester, in North West England. It is the largest town within the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport.

Notable People from Stockport

• 10cc (band)
• John Amaechi (NBA basketballer)
• Sir George Back (Admiral)
• Joan Bakewell (TV presenter)
• Peter Boardman (mountaineer)
• John Bradshaw (judge in trial of Charles I)
• Judith Chalmers (TV presenter)
• Richard Cobden (politician)
• Tess Daly (TV presenter)
• Katie Derham (newsreader)
• David Dickinson (TV presenter)
• Judy Finnigan (TV presenter)
• Tibor Fischer (novelist)
• Sidney Gilliat (film director
• Sarah Harding (member of pop group Girls Aloud)
• Ricky Hatton (boxer)
• James Hickman (Olympic swimmer)
• Bill Hopkins (composer)
• Christopher Isherwood (novelist)
• John Mahoney (actor, Frasier)
• Will Mellor (actor)
• Fred Perry (tennis player)
• Gabrielle Ray (actress)
• Sir Edmund Shaa (Lord Mayor of London)
• Simon Stephens (playwright)
• Bill Tarmey (actor)
• Steve Thomas (ice hockey player (Canada))
• Jon Thorne (double bass player)
• Samuel Oldknow (cotton manufacturing pioneer)
• Sir Joseph Whitworth (engineer & entrepreneur)
• Frederic Calland Williams (pioneer of the computer)
• Mike Yarwood (comedian)