Music

• Aim
  Aim (musician)
  Aim is a British musician, DJ and producer, who was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Aim's sound is a blend of funky electronic music and hip hop beats, a sound which typified the Grand Central Records label...
  
   - Musician
  Musician
  A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
  
  , DJ and record producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
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• Glenn Cornick
  Glenn Cornick
  Glenn Douglas Barnard Cornick was the bespectacled, first bass guitar player in the progressive rock band, Jethro Tull....
  
   - Ex-first bass player
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   in the rock band, Jethro Tull
  Jethro Tull (band)
  Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...
  
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• Paul MacKenzie
  Paul Mackenzie
  Paul B. Mackenzie is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He did graduate work in physics at Cornell University where he was a student of G. Peter LePage. He is an expert on Lattice Gauge Theory...
  
   - Bass player in thrash metal
  Thrash metal
  Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...
  
   band Xentrix
  Xentrix
  Xentrix were a British thrash metal band of the late 1980s/early 1990s hailing from Preston, Lancashire. Xentrix were one of the leading lights of the British Thrash movement. They had videos for their songs For Whose Advantage and their cover of Ray Parker, Jr's Ghostbusters theme. They had...
  
  
• Thomas Round
  Thomas Round
  Thomas Round is a retired English opera singer and actor, best known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas and in grand opera....
  
   - A retired English singer and actor
  Actor
  An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
  
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• The Yage Letters
  The Yage Letters (band)
  The Yage Letters were an English musical group active in the Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria region, from 1991 to 1997. The group consisted of Chris Burke and Steve Crabtree ....
  
   - Band based in Barrow
• Chris While
  Chris While
  Chris While is an award-winning songwriter, singer and musician, known particularly for her powerful and moving vocals and the quality of her compositions and live performances. She has enjoyed success both as a solo artist, a songwriter and as a member of a number of notable and influential...
  
   - Award winning songwriter, singer and musician
• Kellie While
  Kellie While
  Kellie While is a British singer-songwriter considered to have one of the outstanding voices of her generation. She has been a member of some of the most influential and innovative British folk groups of her era, is a much sought after contributor to the work of major artists and has emerged in...
  
   - Singer-songwriter considered to have one of the outstanding voices of her generation

Arts

• James Cranke
  James Cranke
  James Cranke was born at Little Urswick, near Barrow, and lived there for most of his life. He was trained as a plasterer, but became a self taught portrait painter and attempted to make his name in London c.1737-52. He attended St. Martin's Lane Academy and in 1744 he married a well known heiress...
  
   - Painter born in Leece on the outskirts of Barrow.
• John Duffin - Artist and painter printmaker, born in Barrow.
• Dave Saunders - Artist and cartoonist. Born in Barrow and raised in Ulverston
  Ulverston
  Ulverston is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria in north-west England. Historically part of Lancashire, the town is located in the Furness area, close to the Lake District, and just north of Morecambe Bay....
  
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• Constance Spry
  Constance Spry
  Constance Spry was a famous British educator, florist and author in the mid-20th century.- Background :Constance Spry was born Constance Fletcher in Derby in 1886, eldest child and only daughter of George Fletcher and his wife Henrietta Maria Fletcher...
  
   - Author and florist.
• Keith Tyson
  Keith Tyson
  Keith Tyson is a British artist. In 2002, he was the winner of the Turner Prize. His work is concerned with an interest in generative systems, and an embrace of the complexity and interconnectedness of existence...
  
  , artist and Turner Prize
  Turner Prize
  The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
  
   winner, was born in Ulverston
  Ulverston
  Ulverston is a market town and civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria in north-west England. Historically part of Lancashire, the town is located in the Furness area, close to the Lake District, and just north of Morecambe Bay....
  
   and educated in Dalton
  Dalton-in-Furness
  Dalton-in-Furness is a small town of 8,394 people, north east of Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria, England.-History:Dalton is mentioned in the Domesday Book, written as "Daltune" as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun held by Earl Tostig. Historically, it was the capital of Furness...
  
   and Barrow.

Television

• Michael Absalom
  Michael Absalom
  Michael Absalom , more commonly known as Abs, was a regular presenter on CBBC from 2002 to 2004.-Biography:Born on 13 April 1980 in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, he has lived in many different areas including Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria; Rowlands Castle, Hampshire and the south west counties of...
  
   - Television presenter
  Presenter
  A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...
  
   (A.K.A Abs on CBBC
  CBBC
  CBBC is one of two brand names used for the BBC's children's television strands. Between 1985 and 2002, CBBC was the name given to all the BBC's programmes on TV for children aged under 14...
  
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• David Barber
  David Barber
  David Barber is a British television actor, known for his numerous roles in ChuckleVision.- Filmography :*ChuckleVision*Steel River Blues*Merseybeat*The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc *Harry Enfield and Chums...
  
   - Television actor
• Steve Dixon
  Steve Dixon (newsreader)
  Stephen Dixon is an English newsreader who currently works for Sky News, presenting the flagship programmes Sky News at Seven and Sky News at Ten every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.-Journalism career:...
  
   - Newsreader
  News presenter
  A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...
  
   for Sky News
  Sky News
  Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...
  
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• Nigel Kneale
  Nigel Kneale
  Nigel Kneale was a British screenwriter from the Isle of Man. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose fiction, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Film Award for Best Screenplay...
  
   - Film and television scriptwriter.
• Dave Myers
  The Hairy Bikers
  David Myers and Simon "Si" King , collectively known as The Hairy Bikers, are British television presenters who have fronted the series The Hairy Bikers' Cookbook, The Hairy Bikers Ride Again, The Hairy Bakers, The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain and The Hairy Bikers Mums Know...
  
   - Biker
  Motorcycle
  A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...
  
   turned TV Chef
  Celebrity chef
  A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become famous and well known. Today celebrity chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations via mass media, especially television. Historically, celebrity chefs have included Antoine Carême and Martino da Como.-External...
  
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• Peter Purves
  Peter Purves
  Peter Purves is an English television presenter and actor.Purves was born in New Longton, near Preston, Lancashire, and was educated at the independent Arnold School in Blackpool, he had originally planned to go into teaching, training at Alsager College of Education, but began to act with the...
  
   - Actor and television presenter who lived and worked in Barrow when he began his acting career.
• Karen Taylor - Television Comedienne.

Football

• Wayne Curtis
  Wayne Curtis
  Wayne Curtis is an English football striker, currently playing for Fleetwood Town.He began his career with Holker Old Boys, and was signed by Jimmy Harvey in 1998 for Morecambe...
  
   - Barrow AFC striker
  Striker
  Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...
  
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• Neil Doherty
  Neil Doherty
  Neil Doherty is a former English professional footballer from Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Doherty played as a winger. As well as having two spells at Barrow, his home-town club, Doherty played with Watford, Birmingham City, Northampton Town and Kidderminster Harriers.Doherty began his career...
  
   - Watford
  Watford F.C.
  Watford Football Club is an English professional football club based in Watford, Hertfordshire. It is often referred to as Watford F.C., Watford, or by the team's nickname The Hornets . Watford Rovers, Founded in 1881, entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1886, and the Southern League a decade...
  
  , Birmingham City, Northampton Town and Kidderminster Harriers winger
  Winger (sport)
  In certain sports, such as football, field hockey, ice hockey, handball, rugby union, lacrosse and rugby league, the term winger is the name of a position. It refers to positions on the extreme left and right sides of the pitch . In American football and Canadian football, the analogous position...
  
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• Keith Eddy
  Keith Eddy
  Keith Eddy is a retired English footballer. Eddy played for Barrow, Watford and Sheffield United in England, as well as the New York Cosmos in the United States...
  
   - Watford
  Watford F.C.
  Watford Football Club is an English professional football club based in Watford, Hertfordshire. It is often referred to as Watford F.C., Watford, or by the team's nickname The Hornets . Watford Rovers, Founded in 1881, entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1886, and the Southern League a decade...
  
  , Sheffield United and New York Cosmos
  New York Cosmos
  The New York Cosmos were an American soccer club based in New York City, New York and its suburbs. The team played home games in three stadiums around New York before moving in 1977 to Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, where it remained for the rest of its history...
  
   player.
• Harry Hadley
  Harry Hadley
  Harold Hadley was an English professional footballer and football manager. He played once for the England national side.-Playing career:...
  
   - Professional footballer and football manager.
• Shana Haji - Iran U20 and Hibernian F.C.
  Hibernian F.C.
  Hibernian Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Leith, in the north of Edinburgh. They are one of two Scottish Premier League clubs in the city, the other being their Edinburgh derby rivals, Hearts...
  
   winger.
• Emlyn Hughes
  Emlyn Hughes
  Emlyn Walter Hughes, OBE was an English footballer who captained both the England national team and the much-decorated Liverpool F.C. team of the 1970s.- From Blackpool to Liverpool :...
  
   - England
  England national football team
  The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
  
   defender
  Defender (football)
  Within the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposition from attacking....
  
   and Liverpool
  Liverpool F.C.
  Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
  
   captain.
• Doug MacFarlane
  Doug MacFarlane
  Dugald 'Doug' MacFarlane was an English professional footballer who played for Barrow, Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur.- Football career :...
  
   - Tottenham Hotspur
  Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
  Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
  
   forward.
• Billy McAdams
  Billy McAdams
  William "Billy" John McAdams was a Northern Irish footballer. McAdams played in the inside forward position. On leaving school at 15, he took an apprenticeship as a heating engineer and played as an amateur...
  
   - Manchester City
  Manchester City F.C.
  Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894...
  
   and Barrow A.F.C.
  Barrow A.F.C.
  Barrow A.F.C. are an English football club founded in 1901 based in the town of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. Following promotion at the end of the 2007–08 season, they currently play in the Conference National. The club spent over fifty years in the Football League between 1921 and 1972, and have...
  
   striker.
• Ian McDonald - Midfielder
  Midfielder
  A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...
  
   for seven English teams between 1971 and 1988.
• Frank McPherson
  Frank McPherson
  Francis Comber "Frank" McPherson was an English football player. His favoured position was forward.McPherson was born in Barrow-in-Furness. He joined Barrow in the 1920–21 season and helped the team to win the Lancashire Combination title that season...
  
   - Barrow A.F.C.
  Barrow A.F.C.
  Barrow A.F.C. are an English football club founded in 1901 based in the town of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. Following promotion at the end of the 2007–08 season, they currently play in the Conference National. The club spent over fifty years in the Football League between 1921 and 1972, and have...
  
  , Manchester United and Watford F.C forward
  Striker
  Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...
  
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• Vic Metcalfe
  Vic Metcalfe
  Victor "Vic" Metcalfe was a professional footballer who was born in Barrow-in-Furness where his father played rugby league for Barrow. He was though a product of West Riding schools football and joined Huddersfield Town from Ravensthorpe BC as an amateur in June 1940...
  
   - Sunderland A.F.C.
  Sunderland A.F.C.
  Sunderland Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear who currently play in the Premier League...
  
   centre back.
• Jim Parker
  Jim Parker (footballer)
  Jonathan "Jim" Parker was an English professional footballer who played as a central defender.-References:...
  
   - Burnley
  Burnley F.C.
  Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...
  
   and Bradford Park Avenue
  Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C.
  Bradford Association Football Club, previously also known as Bradford and since its reformation in the 1970s now referred to as Bradford Park Avenue, is a football club based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England...
  
   defender.
• Jack Pelter
  Jack Pelter
  Jack Anthony Pelter is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as Centre back for Metro F.C. in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Premier...
  
   - Huddersfield Town and Hull City
  Hull City A.F.C.
  Hull City Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, founded in 1904. The club participates in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football...
  
   midfielder
  Midfielder
  A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...
  
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• Mike Pike
  Mike Pike (referee)
  Michael S. Pike is an English football referee who officiates in the Football League.-Career:...
  
   - The Football League
  The Football League
  The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...
  
   referee.
• Harry Roberts
  Harry Roberts (footballer)
  Henry Roberts was an English international footballer.-Club career:Roberts played for Barrow Wireworks, R.A.S.C. , Barrow, Chesterfield and Lincoln City before joining Port Vale for £100 in June 1930. He was a first team regular from December 1930 and managed a tally of 11 goals in 26 games...
  
   - England
  England national football team
  The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
  
   forward.
• Gary Stevens
  Gary Stevens
  Gary Michael Stevens is a retired English footballer who is best remembered playing in defence for a successful Everton side of the 1980s, as well as for the England national football team....
  
   - England and Everton
  Everton F.C.
  Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
  
   defender.
• Ron Suart
  Ron Suart
  Ronald Suart is an English former football player and manager.-Playing days:Suart was a full-back at Blackpool, playing alongside fellow defenders George Farrow and Harry Johnston in a team which also included Stanley Matthews and Stan Mortensen. Blackpool reached the 1948 FA Cup Final, but Suart...
  
   - A former English football player and manager (of most notably Chelsea
  Chelsea F.C.
  Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
  
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• Albert Tomkin
  Albert Tomkin
  Albert Harry Tomkin was an English professional footballer who played for Formby, Tottenham Hotspur and Northfleet United.- Football career :...
  
   - Former outside left player for Tottenham Hotspur
  Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
  Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
  
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• David Walders
  David Walders
  David Walders was an English professional association footballer who played as a central defender. He started his career in non-league football with Barrow before being signed by Burnley in 1903. He played for Burnley for three seasons, scoring three goals in 93 league games...
  
   - Former defender for Barrow, Burnley and Oldham Athletic
  Oldham Athletic A.F.C.
  Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is an English association football club based at Boundary Park, on Sheepfoot Lane in Oldham, Greater Manchester. The club currently competes in the Football League One, the third tier of the English league...
  
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• Jack Walders
  Jack Walders
  Jonathan "Jack" Walders was an English professional association footballer who played as a winger. He started his career in non-league football with Barrow before being signed by Burnley in 1904. He played 48 league games for Burnley and scored two goals, before leaving to join Oldham Athletic in...
  
   - Former winger for Barrow, Burnley and Oldham Athletic.
• Fred Walker
  Fred Walker (footballer)
  Frederick "Fred" Walker was a former professional footballer, who played for Leeds City and Huddersfield Town. He was also Huddersfield Town's first manager and their only player-manager.-References:...
  
   - Footballer and former manager of Huddersfield Town
  Huddersfield Town F.C.
  Huddersfield Town Football Club is an English football club formed in 1908 and based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. They currently play in League One...
  
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• Jason Walker
  Jason Walker (footballer)
  Jason Walker is an English footballer who plays for York City as a striker. He previously played for Dundee, Greenock Morton, Morecambe, Barrow and Luton Town.-Early career:...
  
   - Current york striker, and former player for Dundee
  Dundee F.C.
  Dundee Football Club, founded in 1893, are a football club based in the city of Dundee, Scotland. They are nicknamed The Dee or The Dark Blues and play their home matches at Dens Park. Their shirt colour is dark blue. Dundee currently play in the Scottish First Division, having been relegated from...
  
  , Greenock Morton
  Greenock Morton F.C.
  Greenock Morton Football Club are a Scottish professional football club, who currently play in the Scottish Football League First Division. The club was founded as Morton Football Club in 1874, making it one of the oldest senior Scottish clubs....
  
   and Morecambe
  Morecambe F.C.
  Morecambe Football Club is an English football club based in Morecambe, Lancashire. It plays its football in League Two, the fourth division of English football, having been promoted in 2007 for the first time in their history to the Football League. They played their home matches at Christie Park...
  
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Rugby league

• Paul Crarey
  Paul Crarey
  Paul Crarey is a former professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s, and coach of the 1990s and 2000s who at club level has played for Barrow, playing at , i.e. number 9, and at representative level has coached for Cumbria, and at club level for Barrow Raiders, and...
  
   - Former Barrow Raiders
  Barrow Raiders
  Barrow Raiders are an English professional rugby league team from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, who are coached by Dave Clark. Formed in 1875 as Barrow Football Club, the club is the oldest of the current professional sports teams in Cumbria....
  
   and Whitehaven
  Whitehaven RLFC
  Whitehaven RLFC is a rugby league club playing in Whitehaven in West Cumbria. They play in Co-operative Championship. Their stadium is called the Recreation Ground...
  
   coach.
• Ade Gardner
  Ade Gardner
  Adrian Antonio Gardner is an English professional rugby league footballer for St. Helens of Super League. A Great Britain representative winger, he previously played for Barrow Raiders. He is the older brother of Ex-Salford City Reds winger, Mat Gardner.Gardner went to St Columba's Roman...
  
   - Barrow Raiders and St. Helens winger
  Winger (sport)
  In certain sports, such as football, field hockey, ice hockey, handball, rugby union, lacrosse and rugby league, the term winger is the name of a position. It refers to positions on the extreme left and right sides of the pitch . In American football and Canadian football, the analogous position...
  
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• Mat Gardner
  Mat Gardner
  Mat Gardner is a rugby league player, who currently plays for Leigh Centurions. He is the younger brother of St Helens winger Ade Gardner...
  
   - Rugby league
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
   player, who currently plays for the Huddersfield Giants
  Huddersfield Giants
  Huddersfield Giants are a professional rugby league club from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire who play in the European Super League competition. They play their home games at the Galpharm Stadium which is shared with Huddersfield Town F.C....
  
  . Matt has now moved to Salford Giants
• Ben Harrison
  Ben Harrison (rugby league)
  Ben Harrison is an English professional rugby league footballer for the Warrington Wolves of Super League...
  
   - Warrington Wolves
  Warrington Wolves
  Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league football club based in Warrington, England that competes in Super League. They play at the Halliwell Jones Stadium, having moved there from Wilderspool in 2003....
  
   player and Ireland international
  Ireland national rugby league team
  The Ireland national rugby league team, known as the Wolfhounds, represent the island of Ireland in rugby league football. The team is organized by Rugby League Ireland and are accredited as an affiliate member of the Rugby League International Federation...
  
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• Liam Harrison
  Liam Harrison (rugby league)
  Liam Harrison , is an Irish rugby league player for Barrow Raiders in the Co-operative Championship. He plays as a centre. He is a current Ireland international...
  
   - Barrow Raiders player and Ireland international.
• Willie Horne
  Willie Horne
  Willie Horne was an English rugby league footballer. He played for Great Britain, England, Lancashire and Barrow between 1943 to 1959 and captained all four sides. He captained Great Britain in a test series against Australia in the days when Great Britain could beat the Aussies...
  
   - Great Britain stand-off
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
   and Barrow
  Barrow Raiders
  Barrow Raiders are an English professional rugby league team from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, who are coached by Dave Clark. Formed in 1875 as Barrow Football Club, the club is the oldest of the current professional sports teams in Cumbria....
  
   rugby football captain
  Captain (sports)
  In team sports, a captain is a title given to a member of the team. The title is frequently honorary, but in some cases the captain may have significant responsibility for strategy and teamwork while the game is in progress on the field...
  
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• Phil Jackson - Canadian former Rugby league
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
   player.
• Jimmy Lewthwaite
  Jimmy Lewthwaite
  Jimmy Lewthwaite was a rugby league for Great Britain, Cumberland, and Barrow.- Barrow :...
  
   - Rugby League winger for Barrow and Great Britain, inducted in Barrow Hall of fame alongside Willie Horn and Phil Jackson.

Other sports

• Caroline Alexander
  Caroline Alexander
  Caroline Alexander is a cross country mountain biker and road cyclist born in Barrow in Furness, Lancashire. She represented Great Britain at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...
  
   - Cross country mountain biker and road cyclist.
• George Bigg
  George Bigg
  George Bigg was an English cricketer who played for Lancashire. He was born and died in Barrow-in-Furness.Bigg made just one first-class appearance, for Lancashire against Derbyshire. In the only innings in which he batted, he scored 16 runs from the lower order. He also recorded a bowling...
  
   - Cricketer
  Cricketer
  A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....
  
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• Kenneth A. Bray
  Kenneth A. Bray
  Father Kenneth A. Bray was an Episcopalian priest, teacher, sportsman and coach. He founded the athletic program for Iolani School from 1932-1953, establishing the "One Team" philosophy touted by many teachers, coaches and students in Hawaii...
  
   - Sport teacher and member of the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame
  Hawaii
  Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
  
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• Stuart Horne
  Stuart Horne
  Stuart Horne was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler who played for Cumberland. He was born in Barrow-in-Furness....
  
   - Cricketer.
• John Iberson
  John Iberson
  John Iberson was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who played for Hertfordshire...
  
   - Cricketer.
• Adam Roynon
  Adam Roynon
  Adam Wayne Roynon is a British motorcycle speedway rider, riding with the Kings Lynn Stars in the British Premier League and Coventry Bees in the British Elite League...
  
   - Professional speedway
  Motorcycle speedway
  Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...
  
   rider.
• Len Wilkinson
  Len Wilkinson
  Leonard Litton Wilkinson was an English cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1938 to 1939...
  
   - Cricketer.
• Eddie Crook - Professional Isle of Man TT Races rider.
• Maurice Flitcroft
  Maurice Flitcroft
  Maurice Gerald Flitcroft was an audacious British amateur golfer and hoaxer.Flitcroft, was commonly referred to as "the world's worst golfer". As well as playing under his own name, he also entered golf competitions, including the Open again under the pseudonyms, Gene Paceky , Gerald Hoppy and...
  
   - Golfer

Miscellaneous

• Chris Blackhurst
  Chris Blackhurst
  Chris Blackhurst is a British newspaper editor.Born in Barrow-in-Furness, Chris's father, Don, is a former Conservative borough councillor of Bideford Gardens. Chris attended Barrow Grammar School after which he went on to study law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge before joining the staff of a legal...
  
   - Editor of The Independent
• Annie Currie - Barrow born woman of Scottish origin who was married to American physicist Robert H. Dicke
  Robert H. Dicke
  Robert Henry Dicke was an American physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity.-Biography:...
  
  
• William Eccles
  William Eccles
  William Henry Eccles was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England. Following graduation from the Royal College of Science, London, in 1898, he became an assistant to Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian radio...
  
   - Physicist
  Physicist
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
  
   and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.
• Gordon Fallows
  Gordon Fallows
  William Gordon Fallows KCVO, known as Gordon Fallows, was a Church of England bishop from the broad church tradition. He served as the sixth suffragan Bishop of Pontefract and subsequently fourth diocesan Bishop of Sheffield...
  
   - Church of England
  Church of England
  The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
  
   bishop.
• William Thomas Forshaw
  William Thomas Forshaw
  Major William Thomas Forshaw VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. In civilian life Forshaw was a teacher at The Manchester Grammar School.Forshaw was...
  
   - British Army officer
  British Army
  The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
  
  , and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Victoria Cross
  The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....
  
  .
• Maurice Flitcroft
  Maurice Flitcroft
  Maurice Gerald Flitcroft was an audacious British amateur golfer and hoaxer.Flitcroft, was commonly referred to as "the world's worst golfer". As well as playing under his own name, he also entered golf competitions, including the Open again under the pseudonyms, Gene Paceky , Gerald Hoppy and...
  
   - Amateur golfer and a hoaxer.
• Nella Last
  Nella Last
  Nella Last was a housewife who lived in Barrow-in-Furness, England. She wrote a diary for the Mass Observation Archive from 1939 until 1965 making it one of the most substantial diaries held by M-O...
  
   - Published wartime diarist.
• Derek Pattinson
  Derek Pattinson
  Sir William Derek Pattinson was Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England from 1972 until 1990.-Early years:...
  
   - Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England
  General Synod
  -Church of England:In the Church of England, the General Synod, which was established in 1970 , is the legislative body of the Church.-Episcopal Church of the United States:...
  
  .
• Dame Stella Rimington
  Stella Rimington
  Dame Stella Rimington, DCB is a British author, who was the Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996. She was the first female DG of MI5, and the first DG whose name was publicised on appointment...
  
   - Director-General
  Director-general
  The term director-general is a title given the highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution.-European Union:...
  
   (DG) of MI5
  MI5
  The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 , is the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence...
  
   from 1992 to 1996.
• William Sykes
  William Sykes (clergyman)
  William Sykes , born Barrow-in-Furness, was first Curate of St John's Church, Tunbrdige Wells; Vicar of Hillsborough and Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield, 1895–1919; Vicar of Audley, Staffordshire, 1919–1928; first President of the Sovereign Grace Union 1913–1930.Married Miss Anne Jane...
  
   - Clergyman.

Fictional characters

• Álvaro de Campos
  Álvaro de Campos
  Álvaro de Campos was one of the poet Fernando Pessoa's various heteronyms, widely known by his powerful and wraithful writing style. Campos' works may be split in three phases: the decadentist phase, the futuristic phase and the decadent phase...
  
   - A fictional heteronym
  Heteronym (literature)
  The literary concept of heteronym, invented by Portuguese writer and poet Fernando Pessoa, refers to one or more imaginary character created by a writer to write in different styles...
  
   created by Fernando Pessoa
  Fernando Pessoa
  Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa , was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic and translator described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.-Early years in Durban:On 13 July...
  
  .
• Charles Parker
  Charles Parker (detective)
  Charles Parker is a fictional police detective who appears in several Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and eventually becomes Lord Peter's brother-in-law.He is first introduced in Whose Body? as a Detective Inspector from Scotland Yard...
  
   - A fictional detective in the Lord Peter Wimsey
  Lord Peter Wimsey
  Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is a bon vivant amateur sleuth in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which he solves mysteries; usually, but not always, murders...
  
   stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
  Dorothy L. Sayers
  Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages...
  
  
• Numerous individuals from The Railway Series
  The Railway Series
  The Railway Series is a set of story books about a railway system located on the fictional Island of Sodor. There are 42 books in the series, the first being published in 1945. Twenty-six were written by the Rev. W. Awdry, up to 1972. A further 16 were written by his son, Christopher Awdry; 14...
  
  - Barrow is strongly associated with the stories