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• Michael Atherton - broadcaster, journalist and retired cricket
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
  
  er for Lancashire
  Lancashire County Cricket Club
  Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...
  
   and England.

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• Vera Baird
  Vera Baird
  Vera Baird is a British Labour Party activist, barrister, author and lecturer. She serves as visiting lecturer at London Southbank University and is co-director of Astraea: Gender Justice...
  
   QC - Labour politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , author and barrister
  Barrister
  A barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...
  
  .
• Bobby Ball
  Bobby Ball
  Bobby Ball is one half of the comedy double act Cannon and Ball, along with Tommy Cannon.He married his first wife, Joan, in 1964, with whom he had two sons, Robert and Darren , who are now a comedy double act in their own right, performing under their surname 'Harper'. Bobby and his first wife...
  
   - one half of comedy double act Cannon and Ball
  Cannon and Ball
  Cannon and Ball are an English comedy double act consisting of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball. The duo met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham, Lancashire...
  
  .
• Lydia Becker
  Lydia Becker
  Lydia Ernestine Becker was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy...
  
   - leading 19th century suffragette
  Suffragette
  "Suffragette" is a term coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for members of the late 19th and early 20th century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union...
  
  , born in Chadderton's Foxdenton Hall.
• Hannah Beswick
  Manchester Mummy
  Hannah Beswick , of Birchin Bower, Hollinwood, Oldham, England, was a wealthy woman who had a pathological fear of premature burial...
  
   - woman who was so afraid of being buried alive that she insisted on her body being embalmed and kept above ground.
• Christopher Biggins
  Christopher Biggins
  Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and media personality.-Career:Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England and brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where he took elocution lessons and participated in local drama groups...
  
   - television presenter, pantomime
  Pantomime
  Pantomime — not to be confused with a mime artist, a theatrical performer of mime—is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the...
  
   actor and winner of 2007's I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
  I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! (Series 7 UK)
  I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! returned on ITV Network for a seventh series on Monday 12 November, and ran until Friday 30 November 2007.Series six winner Matt Willis and his fiancée, Emma Griffiths, are presenting ITV2's I'm a Celebrity.....
  
  .
• Helen Bradley
  Helen Bradley
  Helen Bradley MBE was an artist born in the village of Lees, Lancashire, England. Her oil paintings vividly depict Lancashire life as it was between 1900 and 1910....
  
   - 20th century oil painter born in Lees
  Lees, Greater Manchester
  The village consists of a small cluster of shops and businesses on either side of the A669 Lees Road, surrounded by some terraced houses and some small estates...
  
   in 1900.
• Benjamin Brierley
  Benjamin Brierley
  Benjamin Brierley , English weaver and writer in Lancashire dialect, was born in Failsworth, the son of humble parents, and started life in a textile factory, educating himself in his spare time...
  
   - Failsworth-born weaver, poet and writer in Lancashire dialect
  Lancashire dialect and accent
  Lancashire dialect and accent refers to the vernacular speech in Lancashire, one of the counties of England. Simon Elmes' book Talking for Britain said that Lancashire dialect is now much less common than it once was, but it is not yet extinct...
  
  .
• Louise Brown
  Louise Brown
  Louise Joy Brown is the first person to be conceived by in vitro fertilization, or IVF.-Birth:...
  
   - the world's first baby to be conceived by in vitro fertilisation
  In vitro fertilisation
  In vitro fertilisation is a process by which egg cells are fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro. IVF is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive technology have failed...
  
  .
• Dora Bryan
  Dora Bryan
  Dora May Bryan OBE is an English actress of stage, film and television.-Early life:Bryan was born as Dora May Broadbent in Southport, Lancashire, England. Her father was a salesman and she attended Hathershaw County Primary School in Oldham, Lancashire...
  
   - Southport
  Southport
  Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. During the 2001 census Southport was recorded as having a population of 90,336, making it the eleventh most populous settlement in North West England...
  
  -born Oldham-raised actress best known for her role as Roz in Last of the Summer Wine
  Last of the Summer Wine
  Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. From 1983 to 2010, Alan J. W. Bell produced and...
  
  .

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• Tommy Cannon
  Tommy Cannon
  Tommy Cannon is a comedian and the feed member of comedy double act Cannon and Ball, along with Bobby Ball....
  
   - one half of comedy double act Cannon and Ball
  Cannon and Ball
  Cannon and Ball are an English comedy double act consisting of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball. The duo met in the early 1960s while working as welders in Oldham, Lancashire...
  
  .
• Ronald Castree
  Ronald Castree
  Ronald Castree is an English convicted murderer. He was convicted on 12 November 2007 of the murder of Lesley Molseed, who had died 32 years earlier....
  
   - murderer convicted for the killing of Lesley Molseed.
• Laurence Chaderton
  Laurence Chaderton
  Laurence Chaderton was an English Puritan divine, and one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible.-Life:...
  
   - one of the original translators of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.
• Brian Clarke
  Brian Clarke
  Brian Clarke is a British artist; a painter and architectural stained glass designer who has, most notably,worked in stained glass....
  
   - Oldham-born artist known for his work in stained glass
  Stained glass
  The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings...
  
  .
• Brian Cox
  Brian Cox (physicist)
  Brian Edward Cox, OBE , is a British particle physicist, a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at...
  
   - Chadderton-born television presenter, particle 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...
  
  , a Royal Society
  Royal Society
  The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is a learned society for science, and is possibly the oldest such society in existence. Founded in November 1660, it was granted a Royal Charter by King Charles II as the "Royal Society of London"...
  
   research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester
  University of Manchester
  The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
  
  .
• Bernard Cribbins
  Bernard Cribbins
  Bernard Cribbins, OBE is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2010 is still an active...
  
   - character actor and musical comedian.

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• Paul Edwards
  Paul Edwards (footballer born 1947)
  Paul Francis Edwards is an English ex-footballer who played as a defender for three clubs in the north-west of England: Manchester United, Oldham Athletic and Stockport County....
  
   - ex-association footballer who played for Manchester United
  Manchester United F.C.
  Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
  
  , 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...
  
   and Stockport County
  Stockport County F.C.
  Stockport County Football Club is an English football club based in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The club formed in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers, shortly afterwards merging with Heaton Norris F.C., and adopted the current name on 24 May 1890 on the creation of the County Borough of Stockport...
  
  .
• Karen Elson
  Karen Elson
  Karen Elson is a British model, singer-songwriter and guitarist.As a child, Elson attended North Chadderton School in Chadderton with her twin sister, filmmaker Kate Elson. She began working as a model as a teenager....
  
   - Chadderton-raised supermodel
  Supermodel
  The term supermodel refers to a highly-paid fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling. The term became prominent in the popular culture of the 1980s. Supermodels usually work for top fashion designers and labels...
  
   and wife of American musician Jack White
  Jack White (musician)
  Jack White , often credited as Jack White III, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and occasional actor...
  
  .

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• Ian Greaves
  Ian Greaves
  Ian Denzil Greaves was an English football player and manager. He was born in Crompton, Lancashire. He won a League Championship medal and an FA Cup runners-up medal while playing fullback for Manchester United between 1953 and 1960...
  
   - Shaw and Crompton-born association football player and manager, and one of the Busby Babes
  Busby Babes
  The Busby Babes were a group of Manchester United players, recruited and trained by the club's chief scout Joe Armstrong and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy, who progressed from the club's youth team into the first team under the management of the eponymous Matt Busby.The Busby Babes were notable...
  
  .
• Emma Greenwood - one of the thirteen 2004 Big Brother housemates.
• Nick Grimshaw
  Nick Grimshaw
  Nicholas Peter "Nick" Grimshaw is a British television and radio presenter. Commonly known as 'Grimmy', he has presented shows for Channel 4, E4, BBC One, BBC Two and Channel 4 youth strand T4...
  
   - Television presenter and DJ
• Shobna Gulati
  Shobna Gulati
  Shobna Gulati is an English actress, writer, and dancer of Indian origin, best known for playing Anita in Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies, and Sunita Alahan in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2006, a role to which she returned at the end of 2009...
  
   - Oldham-born actress, writer and dancer.

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• Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  Philip Gilbert Hamerton , was an English artist and art critic and author.He was born at Laneside, a hamlet in Crompton, Lancashire, England. His mother died giving birth to him, and his father died ten years later...
  
   - acclaimed etcher, painter, and art critic
  Art critic
  An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...
  
   was born in Crompton
  Shaw and Crompton
  Shaw and Crompton is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, north of Oldham, southeast of Rochdale, and to the northeast of the city of Manchester...
  
   in 1834.
• Terry Hall
  Terry Hall (ventriloquist)
  Terry Hall , born Terence Hall, was an English ventriloquist. He appeared regularly on television with his puppet, Lenny the Lion, whose catchphrase was "Aw, don't embawass me!" Hall is credited as being one of the first ventriloquists to use a non-human puppet.Hall was born in Chadderton,...
  
   - pioneering ventriloquist and early children's television entertainer.
• Paul Harrison
  Paul Harrison (pantheist)
  Paul Harrison is an award-winning environmental writer, author of several books and reports on environment and development, and the founder and president of the World Pantheist Movement....
  
   - Oldham-born writer on environment and development and founder of the World Pantheist Movement
  World Pantheist Movement
  The World Pantheist Movement is the world's largest organization of people associated with pantheism, a philosophy which asserts that spirituality should be centered on nature...
  
  .
• John Hogan
  John Hogan (VC)
  John Hogan 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....
  
   - Royton-born 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....
  
  , the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the British and Commonwealth forces.

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• Suranne Jones
  Suranne Jones
  Suranne Jones is an English actress. She first rose to prominence playing the role of Karen McDonald in ITV1's soap opera Coronation Street over a period of four years...
  
   - Chadderton-born actress who played Karen McDonald
  Karen McDonald
  Karen McDonald is a fictional character on the long-running British soap opera, Coronation Street from June 2000 to December 2004...
  
   in Coronation Street
  Coronation Street
  Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
  
  .
• William Joyce
  William Joyce
  William Joyce , nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He was hanged for treason by the British as a result of his wartime activities, even though he had renounced his British nationality...
  
   - Brooklyn
  Brooklyn
  Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...
  
  -born fascist politician and Nazi propagandist was a short-term resident of Glodwick
  Glodwick
  Glodwick is an area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is south-east of Oldham town centre.Glodwick is a multi-ethnic residential area in the south of the Oldham, home particularly to a large community of Pakistanis and British Pakistanis....
  
   in Oldham.

K

• Annie Kenney
  Annie Kenney
  Annie Kenney was an English working class suffragette who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union...
  
   - one of the first suffragette
  Suffragette
  "Suffragette" is a term coined by the Daily Mail newspaper as a derogatory label for members of the late 19th and early 20th century movement for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, in particular members of the Women's Social and Political Union...
  
  s to be imprisoned for protesting for women's suffrage.
• Anne Kirkbride
  Anne Kirkbride
  Anne Kirkbride is an English actress, best known for her long-running role as Deirdre Barlow in Coronation Street which she has played for thirty-nine years.-Coronation Street:...
  
   - soap opera actress best known for playing Deirdre Barlow
  Deirdre Barlow
  Deirdre Anne Barlow is a long-standing fictional character in the UK television ITV Granada soap opera, Coronation Street...
  
   in Coronation Street
  Coronation Street
  Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
  
  .
• Jack Kirkbride
  Jack Kirkbride
  Jack Kirkbride was an English cartoonist, and father to Anne Kirkbride, the actress who plays Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street....
  
   - acclaimed cartoonist
  Cartoonist
  A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
  
   who worked for the Oldham Evening Chronicle
  Oldham Evening Chronicle
  The Oldham Evening Chronicle is a daily newspaper published each weekday evening. It is a local newspaper which serves the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England...
  
  .
• Barbara Knox
  Barbara Knox
  Barbara Knox, MBE , is an English actress, best known for playing Rita Sullivan in the television soap opera Coronation Street.-Early life:Knox was born in Oldham, Lancashire...
  
   - soap opera actress best known for playing Rita Sullivan
  Rita Sullivan
  Rita Sullivan is a long-standing character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street...
  
   in Coronation Street
  Coronation Street
  Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
  
  .

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• Sarah Lancashire
  Sarah Lancashire
  Sarah Lancashire is an English actress, probably best recognised for her role as Raquel Watts in Coronation Street. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1986.-Television:...
  
   - Oldham-born television actress.
• John Lees
  John Lees (inventor)
  John Lees of Turf Lane, Royton, Lancashire was an inventor who made a substantial improvement to machinery for carding cotton.He improved the carding machine in 1772 by adding a feeder to it...
  
   - Royton-born inventor who made a substantial improvement to machinery for carding
  Carding
  Carding is a mechanical process that breaks up locks and unorganised clumps of fibre and then aligns the individual fibres so that they are more or less parallel with each other. The word is derived from the Latin carduus meaning teasel, as dried vegetable teasels were first used to comb the raw wool...
  
   cotton in 1772.
• Joseph Lees (1748–1824) - regional dialect poet from Glodwick
  Glodwick
  Glodwick is an area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is south-east of Oldham town centre.Glodwick is a multi-ethnic residential area in the south of the Oldham, home particularly to a large community of Pakistanis and British Pakistanis....
  
  , who wrote Jone o Grinfilt
  Jone o Grinfilt
  Jone o Grinfilt is a poem in the Oldham dialect of English. It was written by a man named Joseph Lees from the Glodwick area of the town in 1805. "Grinfilt" is a dialect pronunciation of Greenfield, a village in the neighbouring parish of Saddleworth. The poem was intended to ridicule country folk...
  
  . He was a hand-loom weaver and schoolteacher accustomed to "study on his seatboard, and when he had thrown a few ideas into rhyme he stopt picking-o'er and wrote it down".
• Ralf Little
  Ralf Little
  Ralf Alistair J. B. Little is an English actor, writer and semi-professional footballer, working mainly in television comedy. He is best known for playing Antony Royle in The Royle Family and Jonny Keogh in the first six series of Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.-Early life and work...
  
   - television actor, best known for his roles in The Royle Family
  The Royle Family
  The Royle Family is a popular, BAFTA award-winning television comedy drama produced by Granada Television for the BBC, which ran for three series between 1998 and 2000, and specials from 2006 onwards...
  
  and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
  Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
  Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps was a BBC sitcom created and written by Susan Nickson. It is set in the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, and initially revolves around the lives of five twenty-somethings, played by Ralf Little , Sheridan Smith , Will Mellor , Natalie Casey and...
  
  .
• Syd Little
  Syd Little
  Syd Little is an English comedian and straight man in the double act Little and Large, with Eddie Large....
  
   - comedian and straight man
  Double act
  A double act, also known as a comedy duo, is a comic pairing in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin and profession, but drastically different personalities or behavior...
  
   in the double act Little and Large
  Little and Large
  Little and Large were a British comedy double act comprising straight man Syd Little and comic Eddie Large . They formed their partnership in 1962, appearing as singers in local pubs around the North-West of England...
  
  .
• Eric Longworth
  Eric Longworth
  Eric Longworth was a British actor, best known for his semi-regular part in Dad's Army as Mr. Gordon, the town clerk of Walmington-on-Sea....
  
   - Shaw
  Shaw and Crompton
  Shaw and Crompton is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines, north of Oldham, southeast of Rochdale, and to the northeast of the city of Manchester...
  
  -born actor, best known for his semi-regular part in sitcom Dad's Army
  Dad's Army
  Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show...
  
  , as the town clerk of Walmington-on-Sea
  Walmington-on-Sea
  Walmington-on-Sea is a fictional seaside resort where the BBC Television sitcom, BBC radio series and film Dad's Army was based.Located on the channel coast of England in the county of Kent, the national "front line" following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk during...
  
  .

M

• Michelle Marsh - glamour model and page 3 girl.
• Matthew Maynard
  Matthew Maynard
  Matthew Maynard is an English former cricketer. He played in four Tests and fourteen ODIs for England....
  
   - former England Test cricket
  Test cricket
  Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
  
  er.
• William McDougall
  William McDougall (psychologist)
  William McDougall FRS was an early twentieth century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the United Kingdom and the latter part in the United States...
  
   - Chadderton-born psychologist and writer of several highly influential textbooks.

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• Kieran O'Brien
  Kieran O'Brien
  Kieran O'Brien is an English actor.-Biography:O'Brien, who grew up in nearby Royton, began acting at a early age and was the star of a BBC TV series Gruey by the time he was 15. He also featured in several other series at the time in one-off or recurring roles...
  
   - actor who gained notoriety for his role in the 2004 film 9 Songs
  9 Songs
  9 Songs is a 2004 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom. The title refers to the nine songs played by eight different rock bands that complement the story of the film...
  
  .
• Mark Owen
  Mark Owen
  Mark Anthony Patrick Owen , is an English singer-songwriter. He is a member of pop band Take That. The band were hugely successful during the 1990s and have enjoyed even more success since their reunion in 2005...
  
   - Oldham-born member of boyband Take That
  Take That
  Take That are a British five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter...
  
  .

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• David Platt - association footballer, formerly captain of the England national football team
  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...
  
  .

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• Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes - Greenfield
  Greenfield, Greater Manchester
  Greenfield is a village in the Saddleworth parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England. It is east of Oldham, and east-northeast of the city of Manchester...
  
  -born Labour party politician and life peer
  Life peer
  In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles cannot be inherited. Nowadays life peerages, always of baronial rank, are created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and entitle the holders to seats in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as...
  
  .
• Andy Ritchie - former Oldham Athletic A.F.C.
  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...
  
   player and manager.

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• Sahil Saeed
  Kidnapping of Sahil Saeed
  Mohammad Sahil Saeed is a British boy of Pakistani heritage, born in Oldham, who was kidnapped in the evening of 4 March 2010 in Jhelum, Pakistan...
  
   - a British Pakistani from Shaw and Crompton who was kidnapped for ransom in Pakistan during 2010.
• Phillip Schofield
  Phillip Schofield
  Phillip Bryan Schofield is an English broadcaster and television personality best known for presenting shows such as This Morning, Dancing on Ice, and various game shows including The Cube.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Oldham-born television presenter.
• Nicola Stephenson
  Nicola Stephenson
  Nicola Stephenson is an English actress. She is known mainly for her roles in television, which include Margaret Clemence in Brookside, Julie Fitzjohn/Bradford in Holby City, Suzie Davidson in Clocking Off, Jackie in ITV's Christmas Lights/Northern Lights/City Lights, and Sarah Williams in BBC's...
  
   - television actress.
• Philip Sydney Stott, 1st Baronet, Chadderton-born architect
  Architect
  An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
  
  , civil engineer
  Civil engineer
  A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...
  
   and surveyor
  Surveying
  See Also: Public Land Survey SystemSurveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional position of points and the distances and angles between them...
  
   of cotton mill
  Cotton mill
  A cotton mill is a factory that houses spinning and weaving machinery. Typically built between 1775 and 1930, mills spun cotton which was an important product during the Industrial Revolution....
  
  s.
• William Stott
  William Stott (artist)
  William Stott-of-Oldham as he signed his works in order to distinguish himself from Edward Stott, was a British painter born in Oldham, Lancashire, England. He was the son of an Oldham cotton mill owner...
  
   - successful impressionist painter.
• Eric Sykes
  Eric Sykes
  Eric Sykes, CBE is an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career has spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Peter...
  
   - comedy writer and actor.

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• Henry Taylor
  Henry Taylor (swimmer)
  Henry Taylor was a British freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1906 Summer Olympics, in the 1908 Summer Olympics, in the 1912 Summer Olympics, and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, and continued to swim competitively until 1926...
  
   - British Olympic freestyle swimming triple gold medallist and champion.
• Kevin Thaw
  Kevin Thaw
  Kevin Thaw British rock climber and mountaineer.Thaw has climbed notable routes and added many first ascents since commencing in Britain’s Peak District then relocating to California and journeying extensively through: Yosemite, El Capitan, Argentine Patagonia, the Himalaya, Alaska, Canadian...
  
  , alpinist, climber; many first and notable ascents, member of The North Face
  The North Face
  The North Face, Inc. is an American outdoor product company specializing in outerwear, fleece, shirts, footwear, and equipment such as backpacks, tents, and sleeping bags....
  
   climbing team, Altitude Everest Expedition 2007
  Altitude Everest Expedition 2007
  The 2007 Altitude Everest Expedition, led by the American climber Conrad Anker, arrived at Base Camp below the north face of Everest in May 2007 and retraced the last journey of British climber George Mallory. On 8 June 1924, Mallory, along with his climbing partner Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine, set out...
  
  
• Geoff Tootill - Chadderton-born scientist helped create the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine in 1948, the world's first wholly electronic stored program computer.
• Dame Eva Turner
  Eva Turner
  Dame Eva Turner DBE was an English dramatic soprano with an international reputation. Her strong, steady and well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power in Italian and German operatic roles.-Career:...
  
  , DBE - Renowned soprano opera singer

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• Paul Walsh
  Paul Walsh (businessman)
  Paul S. Walsh Paul S. Walsh Paul S. Walsh (born 15 May 1955, Chadderton, Lancashire is the current Chief Executive Officer of Diageo, and one of the FTSE 100's longest serving chief executives.-Early life:...
  
   - Chadderton-born Chief Executive of Diageo
  Diageo
  Diageo plc is a global alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine....
  
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• Sir William Walton
  William Walton
  Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
  
   - acclaimed composer and conductor.
• Ricky Whittle
  Ricky Whittle
  Ricky Whittle is a British actor from Oldham, Greater Manchester.-Biography:The son of former Royal Air Force serviceman Harry Whittle, Whittle grew up travelling with his father's career around the world, with a home base at Burghfield Common near Reading, Berkshire.A keen sportsman, Whittle...
  
   - Oldham-born model and actor.
• Jack Wild
  Jack Wild
  Jack Wild was a British actor who is best remembered for his performances in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, and Oliver Reed. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16 for the role of the...
  
   - Royton-born Academy Award nominated actor, best known for his role as the Artful Dodger in the 1968 musical film Oliver!
  Oliver! (film)
  Oliver! is a 1968 British musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris....
  
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• Woolly Wolstenholme
  Woolly Wolstenholme
  Stuart John Wolstenholme, usually known as Woolly Wolstenholme was vocalist and keyboard player with the British progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest.-Biography:...
  
   - Chadderton-born vocalist and keyboard player with progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest
  Barclay James Harvest
  Barclay James Harvest are an English progressive rock band. They were founded in Saddleworth, Lancashire, in September 1966 by John Lees, Les Holroyd, Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme , and Mel Pritchard .-History:...
  
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• Phil Woolas
  Phil Woolas
  Philip James Woolas was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth from his election in 1997 to 2010. He was the Minister of State for Borders and Immigration in the Home Office, as well as being the Minister of State for the Treasury...
  
   MP - Lincolnshire-born politician representing Oldham East and Saddleworth
  Oldham East and Saddleworth
  Oldham East and Saddleworth is a county constituency in Greater Manchester represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election...
  
  , lives in Lees.

External links

• Famous Sons & Daughters, a page from visitoldham.co.uk.