This is a list of people from Oldham, in
North West England
North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of England, administrative counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. The North West had a population of ...
. The
demonym
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of
Oldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, w ...
is Oldhamer; however, this list may include people from
Chadderton
Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk and Rochdale Canal. It is located in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Oldham, south of Rochdale and north-east of Mancheste ...
,
Failsworth
Failsworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England, north-east of Manchester city centre and south-west of Oldham. The orbital M60 motorway skirts it to the east. The population at the 2011 census was ...
,
Lees,
Royton
Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 21,284 in 2011. Close to the source of the River Irk, near undulating land at the foothills of the South Pennines, it is northwest of Old ...
,
Saddleworth, and
Shaw and Crompton
Shaw and Crompton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, which contains the town of Shaw and lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines. It is located north of Oldham, south ...
, all from the wider
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Oldham, The borough had a population of 237,628 making it the seventh-largest district by populati ...
. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:
A
* Sir
Elkanah Armitage
Sir Elkanah Armitage DL (6 September 1794 – 26 November 1876) was a British industrialist and Liberal politician.
Early life
He was born the third of six sons of Elkanah Armitage, a farmer and linen weaver from Failsworth, Lancashire. He l ...
(1794–1876) – industrialist and Mayor of Manchester; born in Failsworth
*
Mike Atherton
Michael Andrew Atherton (born 23 March 1968) is a broadcaster, journalist and a former England international first-class cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman for Lancashire and England, and occasional leg-break bowler, he achieved the ca ...
(born 1968) – broadcaster, journalist and retired
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...
er for
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly.
The non-metropolitan county of Lancas ...
and
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...
; born in
Failsworth
Failsworth is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England, north-east of Manchester city centre and south-west of Oldham. The orbital M60 motorway skirts it to the east. The population at the 2011 census was ...
B
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Vera Baird
Dame Vera Baird, (''née'' Thomas; born 13 February 1950) is a British barrister and politician who has held roles as a government minister, police and crime commissioner, and Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.
A Labour Party Mem ...
(born 1950) – Labour
politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, ...
, author and
barrister
A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and givin ...
*
Bobby Ball
Robert Harper (28 January 1944 – 28 October 2020), known professionally as Bobby Ball, was a British comic, actor, singer and television host. He was best known as a member of the comic double act Cannon and Ball, with Tommy Cannon (Thomas ...
(1944–2020) – one half of comedy double act
Cannon and Ball; born in Boundary Park General Hospital
*
Tony Barber
Anthony Ferraro Louis Barber (born 28 March 1940) is a British Australian Gold Logie award-winning television game show host, radio announcer singer and media personality, who has been active in the industry since the early 1960s.
Biography
E ...
(born 1940) − radio and television host and
Gold Logie
The Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, commonly referred to simply as the Gold Logie, is an award presented annually at the Australian Logie Awards.
The Gold Logie was first awarded at the 2nd Annual TV We ...
winner
*
Lydia Becker
Lydia Ernestine Becker (24 February 1827 – 18 July 1890) was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. She established Manchester as a centre for the suffrage mo ...
(1827–1890) – leading 19th-century
suffragette
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to member ...
, born in Chadderton's
Foxdenton Hall
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Hannah Beswick (1688–1758) – woman who was so afraid of being buried alive that she insisted on her body being embalmed and kept above ground
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Christopher Biggins
Christopher Kenneth Biggins (born 16 December 1948) is an English actor and television presenter.
Early life
Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of William and Pamela Biggins. He was brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, attended St P ...
(born 1948) –
television presenter
A television presenter (or television host, some become a " television personality") is a person who introduces, hosts television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience. Nowadays, it is common for people who garne ...
,
pantomime
Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and (to a lesser extent) in other English-speakin ...
actor and winner of 2007's ''
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!''
*
Scholes Birch (1826–1910) – first-class cricketer
*
Lally Bowers (1914–1984) – actress, and next door neighbour to
Dora Bryan
Dora May Broadbent, (7 February 1923 – 23 July 2014), known as Dora Bryan, was a British actress of stage, film and television.[Helen Bradley
Helen Layfield Bradley MBE (20 November 1900 – 19 July 1979) was an English artist born in Lees, Lancashire, England. Her paintings, mostly in oils, typically depict life in Lancashire in the Edwardian era.
Biography
She was born Helen ...]
(1900–1979) – 20th-century oil painter born in
Lees in 1900
*
Benjamin Brierley
Benjamin Brierley (often known as Ben Brierley) (26 June 1825 – 18 January 1896) was an English weaver, who took up writing in Lancashire dialect. He became a prolific journalist.
Life
He was born in the Rocks area of Failsworth, Lancashire ...
(1825–1896) – Failsworth-born weaver, poet and writer in
Lancashire dialect
The Lancashire dialect or (colloquially, Lanky) refers to the Northern English vernacular speech of the English county of Lancashire. The region is notable for its tradition of poetry written in the dialect.
Scope of Lancashire dialect
La ...
*
Louise Brown
Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman who was the first human to have been born after conception by ''in vitro'' fertilisation experiment (IVF). Her birth, following a procedure pioneered in Britain, has been lauded among "t ...
(born 1978) – world's first baby conceived by
''in vitro'' fertilisation; born in Oldham General Hospital
*
Dora Bryan
Dora May Broadbent, (7 February 1923 – 23 July 2014), known as Dora Bryan, was a British actress of stage, film and television.[Parbold
Parbold is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England.
Local government
Parbold had a population of 2,582 at the 2011 Census.
West Lancashire is divided into 19 parish councils, the first tier of local government. Parbold is bord ...]
-born actress, best known for her role in ''
A Taste of Honey
''A Taste of Honey'' is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 19. It was intended as a novel, but she turned it into a play because she hoped to revitalise British theatre and address social issues that ...
'' and as Roz in ''
Last of the Summer Wine
''Last of the Summer Wine'' is a British sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke and originally broadcast by the BBC from 1973 to 2010. It premiered as an episode of '' Comedy Playhouse'' on 4 January 1973, and the first series of episodes f ...
''
*
Will Buckley (born 1989) – footballer for
Sunderland
Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ...
C
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Tommy Cannon
Thomas Derbyshire (born 27 June 1938), known professionally as Tommy Cannon, is an English comic, actor and singer. He is best known as the straight man of the comic double act Cannon and Ball, until Bobby Ball's death in 2020, in TV programm ...
(born 1938) – one half of comedy double act
Cannon and Ball
*
Ronald Castree
Ronald is a masculine given name derived from the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr'',#H2, Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 234; #H1, Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Ronald. or possibly from Old English ''Regenweald''. In some cases ''Ronald'' is an Anglicised ...
(born 1953) – murderer convicted for the
killing of Lesley Molseed
*
Laurence Chaderton
Laurence Chaderton (''c''. September 1536 – 13 November 1640) was an English Puritan divine, the first Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible.
Life
Chaderton was born in Lees, ...
(–1640) – one of the original translators of the
Authorized King James Version
The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version, is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of K ...
of the Bible
[.]
*
Brian Clarke
Brian Clarke (born 2 July 1953) is a British painter, architectural artist and printmaker, known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, symbolist paintings, set designs, and collaborations with major figures in Modern and con ...
(born 1953) – Oldham-born architectural artist and painter known for his work in
stained glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...
*
J. R. Clynes
John Robert Clynes (27 March 1869 – 23 October 1949) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 35 years, and as Leader of the Labour Party (1921–1922), led the party in its breakthroug ...
(1869–1949) – Labour politician, Leader of the Labour Party, 1921–22
*
Olivia Cooke (born 1993) – TV and film actress known for ''
Bates Motel'', "
Ouija
The ouija ( , ), also known as a spirit board or talking board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the Latin alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words "yes", "no", occasionally "hello" and "goodbye", along with various symbols and gra ...
" and "
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
''Me and Earl and the Dying Girl'' is a 2012 debut novel written by Jesse Andrews. The novel was released in hardcover by Amulet Books on March 1, 2012, and in paperback on May 7, 2013.
Plot
Greg Gaines is a senior at Benson High School in ...
"; from Oldham
*
Jodie Connor (born 1981) – recording artist, lyricist, fashion model and goodwill ambassador for
The Prince's Trust
The Prince's Trust ( cy, Ymddiriedolaeth y Tywysog) is a charity in the United Kingdom founded in 1976 by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) to help vulnerable young people get their lives on track. It supports 11-to-30-year-olds who are u ...
; from
Shaw and Crompton
Shaw and Crompton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, which contains the town of Shaw and lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines. It is located north of Oldham, south ...
[‘My pop bubble’s not burst!’]
''Oldham Advertiser
The ''Oldham Advertiser'' is a weekly newspaper which serves the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England. Established in 1982, it is owned by Reach plc, as part of MEN Media which contains a collection of newspapers across Nor ...
'', 17 September 2003.
*
Nicholas Connor (born 1999) – film director, born in Oldham
*
Carl Cox
Carl Cox (born 29 July 1962) is a British house and techno club DJ, as well as radio DJ and record producer. He is based in Hove, Sussex, England.
Cox has won and been nominated for numerous awards. He has performed at numerous clubs and ...
(born 1962) – record producer and DJ, born in Oldham
*
Brian Cox (born 1968) – Chadderton-born television presenter,
particle physicist
Particle physics or high energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The fundamental particles in the universe are classified in the Standard Model as fermions (matter particles) a ...
,
Royal Society
The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...
research fellow, and professor at the
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The university owns and operates majo ...
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Bernard Cribbins
Bernard Joseph Cribbins (29 December 1928 – 27 July 2022) was an English actor and singer whose career spanned over seven decades.
During the 1960s, Cribbins became known in the UK for his successful novelty records " The Hole in the Groun ...
(1928–2022) – character actor and musical comedian
*
Don Cupitt
Don Cupitt (born 22 May 1934) is an English philosopher of religion and scholar of Christian theology. He has been an Anglican priest and a lecturer in the University of Cambridge, though is better known as a popular writer, broadcaster and comm ...
(born 1934) – English philosopher of religion and scholar of Christian theology
D
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Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn (; born Laura Michelle Hollins; 16 February 1983) is an English model and actress. She is best known for her successful modelling career in the 2000s, and has been called one of the decade's top models. Since her retirement from mod ...
(born 1983) – Failsworth-raised
supermodel
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E
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Paul Edwards (born 1947) – ex-association footballer who played for
Manchester United
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The ...
,
Oldham Athletic
Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system.
The history of Oldham Athletic be ...
and
Stockport County
Stockport County Football Club are a professional football club in Stockport, England, who compete in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Formed in 1883 as Heaton Norris Rovers, they were renamed Stockport Co ...
*
Karen Elson
Karen Jill Elson (born 15 January 1979) is an English model and singer-songwriter.
Early life and education
Elson was born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, and attended North Chadderton School as a child. She has a fraternal twin sister, film ...
(born 1979) – Chadderton-raised
supermodel
A supermodel, also spelled super-model or super model, is a highly paid fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in ''haute couture'' and commercial modeling. The term ''supermodel'' became prominent in the po ...
and singer-songwriter
F
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Kate Fenton
Kate Fenton (born 14 October 1954) is an English novelist and former BBC radio producer. She lives near Whitby in Yorkshire.
Background
Fenton was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at St Hild ...
(born 1954) – Failsworth-born novelist and former BBC radio producer
*
Siobhan Finneran
Siobhán Margaret Finneran (born 27 April 1966) is a British actress. She made her screen debut in the 1987 independent film ''Rita, Sue and Bob Too'', and subsequently worked consistently in television drama including roles in ''Coronation Stre ...
(born 1966) – Oldham-born television, film and theatre actress; ''Happy Valley'' and ''The Loch''
*
George Ford (born 1993) – Oldham-born England rugby union player
*
Des Foy (born 1963) –
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It ...
,
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the s ...
and
Oldham
Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, w ...
rugby league footballer; Director of
Rugby League Ireland
Rugby League Ireland (RLI) is the internationally recognised governing body for the development of rugby league football in Ireland, having secured official recognition from the RLIF in 2000. It is recognised within the Irish Sports Council an ...
*
Roy Fuller
Roy Broadbent Fuller CBE (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet.
He was born at Failsworth, Lancashire to lower-middle-class parents Leopold Charles Fuller and his wife Nellie (1888–1949; née B ...
(1912–1991) – Failsworth-born writer, known mostly as a poet
G
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Ian Greaves (1932–2009) – Shaw and Crompton-born association football player and manager; one of the
Busby Babes
The "Busby Babes" were the group of footballers, recruited and trained by Manchester United F.C. 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 ...
*
Nick Grimshaw
Nicholas Peter Andrew Grimshaw (born 14 August 1984), also known as Grimmy, is an English television and former radio presenter, podcaster and author. He became known for having hosted a variety of shows on BBC Radio 1. He is also known as a t ...
(born 1984) – television presenter and DJ; raised in Oldham
*
Shobna Gulati
Shobna Gulati (born 7 August 1966)[www.shobnagulati.co.uk](_blank)
Shobna Gulati official website is an English ...
(born 1966) – Oldham-born actress, writer and dancer
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Terry Hall (1926–2007) – pioneering ventriloquist and early children's television entertainer
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton (10 September 1834 – 4 November 1894) was a British artist, art critic and author. He was a keen advocate of contemporary printmaking and most of his writings concern the graphic arts. He was an important theorist o ...
(1834–1894) – etcher, painter and
art critic
An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogu ...
; born in
Crompton Crompton may refer to
Place names
* Crompton (West Warwick), a community in West Warwick, Rhode Island, US
*Crompton, Greater Manchester, in Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester, England formerly in Lancashire
* Crompton Urban District, an obso ...
in 1834
*
Graham Harding
Graham Frederick Anthony Harding (19 March 1937 – 20 October 2018) of Aston University was the first professor of clinical neurophysiology in the United Kingdom. He was the first to recognise that television broadcasts and video games could tri ...
(born 1966) – cricketer
*
Paul Harrison (born 1945) – Oldham-born writer on environment and development; founder of the World Pantheist Movement
*
Jack Hilton (1900–1983) – British novelist, essayist, and travel writer
*
John Hogan (1884–1943) – Royton-born recipient of the
Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previousl ...
, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the British and Commonwealth forces
*
Prof Arthur Cyril William Hutchinson (1889–1969) – professor of dentistry
I
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Inspiral Carpets
Inspiral Carpets are an English rock band, part of the late-1980s/early-1990s Madchester movement. Formed in Oldham in 1980, the band's most successful lineup featured frontman Tom Hingley, drummer Craig Gill, guitarist Graham Lambert, bassi ...
–
Madchester
Madchester was a musical and cultural scene that developed in the English city of Manchester in the late 1980s, closely associated with the indie dance scene. Indie-dance (sometimes referred to as indie-rave) saw artists merging indie music ...
/
indie rock
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produ ...
band
J
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Nicole Jackson (born 1992) – professional ice hockey player for
Göteborg HC
Göteborg Hockey Club, abbreviated as Göteborg HC or GHC, are an ice hockey club in Angered, a borough of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborg) in southwestern Sweden. They played in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL), the top Swedish women's hocke ...
and the
Great Britain women's national ice hockey team
The British women's national ice hockey team represents Great Britain at the International Ice Hockey Federation's IIHF World Women's Championships. The women's national team is controlled by Ice Hockey UK. As of 2011, Great Britain has 476 fema ...
*
Lee Jasper
Lee Jasper (born 4 November 1958) is a British politician and activist. He served as Senior Policy Advisor on Equalities to the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone until he resigned on 4 March 2008. More recently, he stood as the Respect Party ...
(born 1958) –
race equality activist and champion of over 30 years originally from Manchester
*
Suranne Jones
Sarah Anne Akers (née Jones; born 27 August 1978), known professionally as Suranne Jones, is an English actress and producer. She rose to prominence as Karen McDonald in ''Coronation Street'' between 2000 to 2004. Upon leaving, she furthered h ...
(born 1978) – Chadderton-born actress who played
Karen McDonald in ''
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford.
Orig ...
''
*
William Joyce
William Brooke Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an American-born fascist and Nazi propaganda broadcaster during the Second World War. After moving from New York to Ireland and subsequently to England, ...
(1906–1946) –
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
-born
fascist
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the ...
politician and Nazi propagandist; short-term resident of
Glodwick in Oldham
K
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Annie Kenney
Ann "Annie" Kenney (13 September 1879 – 9 July 1953) was an English working-class suffragette and socialist feminist who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She co-founded its first branch in London with Minnie ...
(1879–1953) – one of the first
suffragette
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to member ...
s to be imprisoned for protesting for women's suffrage
*
Ian Kershaw
Sir Ian Kershaw (born 29 April 1943) is an English historian whose work has chiefly focused on the social history of 20th-century Germany. He is regarded by many as one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, and is pa ...
(born 1943) – historian, regarded by many as one of the world's leading experts on Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany
*
Anne Kirkbride
Anne Kirkbride (21 June 1954 – 19 January 2015) was an English actress, best known for her long-running role as Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap ''Coronation Street'', which she played for 42 years from 1972 to 2014. For this role, she posthu ...
(1954–2015) – soap opera actress best known for playing
Deirdre Barlow
Deirdre Anne Barlow (also Hunt, Langton and Rachid) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'', played by Anne Kirkbride. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 20 November 1972 ...
in ''
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford.
Orig ...
''
* Jack Kirkbride (1923–2006) – cartoonist who worked for the ''Oldham Evening Chronicle''
* John Kneller (1916–2009) – English-American professor and fifth President of Brooklyn College
* Barbara Knox (born 1933) – soap opera actress best known for playing Rita Sullivan in ''Coronation Street''
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* Sarah Lancashire (born 1964) – Oldham-born television actress
* John Lees (inventor), John Lees – Royton-born inventor who made a substantial improvement to machinery for carding cotton in 1772
* Joseph Lees (1748–1824) – regional dialect poet from
Glodwick; wrote ''Jone o Grinfilt''
* Ralf Little (born 1980) – television actor, best known for his roles in ''The Royle Family'' and ''Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps''
[England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837–1983]
. Ancestry.co.uk. URL accessed 21 June 2007.
* Eric Longworth (1918–2008) – Shaw and Crompton, Shaw-born actor, best known for his semi-regular part in sitcom ''Dad's Army'', as the town clerk of Walmington-on-Sea
M
* Michelle Marsh (born 1982) – glamour model and Page Three, page 3 girl
* Matthew Maynard (born 1966) – former England cricket team, England Test cricketer
* William McDougall (psychologist), William McDougall (1871–1938) – Chadderton-born psychologist and writer of several highly influential textbooks
* Liz McInnes (born 1959) – former Labour MP of the House of Commons
* Fergus Mills (1840–1924) – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Simon Moore (Derbyshire cricketer), Simon Moore (born 1974) – cricketer
N
* N-Trance – House music, dance music producers
O
* Kieran O'Brien (born 1973) – actor who gained notoriety for his role in the 2004 film ''9 Songs''
* Mark Owen (born 1972) – member of boyband Take That; born and raised in Oldham
P
* David Platt (footballer), David Platt (born 1966) – association footballer, formerly captain of the England national football team; born in Chadderton
* Tony Prince (born 1944) – British radio disc jockey and businessman
R
* Tony Radakin (born 1965) – senior Royal Navy officer
* Akke Rahman (born 1982) – British Bengali mountaineer
* Alan Rankle (born 1952) – artist
* Jim Ratcliffe (born 1952) – founder and CEO of Ineos, raised in Failsworth
* Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes (1895–1987) – Greenfield, Greater Manchester, Greenfield-born Labour party politician and life peer
* Andy Ritchie (English footballer), Andy Ritchie (born 1960) – former
Oldham Athletic
Oldham Athletic Association Football Club is a professional football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in the National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system.
The history of Oldham Athletic be ...
player and manager
* Roy Rolland (1921–1997) – comedian and stage actor who appeared as Old Mother Riley from the 1950s to 1980s
[Rolland's Obituary]
in ''The Independent'' – 26 August 1997
* Alan Rothwell (born 1937) – actor and television presenter
* Clive Rowe (born 1964) – actor
S
* Kidnapping of Sahil Saeed, Sahil Saeed (born 2004) – British Pakistani from Shaw and Crompton who was kidnapped for ransom in Pakistan in 2010
* Phillip Schofield (born 1962) – Oldham-born television presenter
* Paul Sculthorpe (born 1977) – England and St Helens RLFC player and captain
* Edward Sinclair (1914–1977) – television actor, ''Dad's Army''
* Kevin Sinfield (born 1980) – England and Leeds RLFC player and captain
* Nicola Stephenson (born 1971) – television actress
* Philip Sydney Stott, 1st Baronet (1858–1937) – Chadderton-born architect, civil engineer and surveying, surveyor of cotton mills
* William Stott (artist), William Stott (1857–1900) – impressionist painter
* Eric Sykes (1923–2012) – comedy writer and actor
* Glenn Simon – Dwarf Fireman and Monopoly tycoon from the Oldham borough of Failsworth.
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* Henry Taylor (swimmer), Henry Taylor (1885–1951) – Great Britain at the Olympics, British Olympic freestyle swimming triple gold medallist and champion
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* Kevin Thaw (born 1967) – alpinist, climber; many first and notable ascents, member of the North Face climbing team, Altitude Everest Expedition 2007
* Stephen Timms (born 1955) – British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament
* Geoff Tootill (1922–2017) – Chadderton-born scientist helped create the Manchester Baby in 1948, the world's first wholly electronic stored program computer
* Dame Eva Turner (1892–1990) – soprano opera singer; born in Werneth
* Twisted Wheel – punk rock trio; reside in Oldham
* The Tides—Liam Pennington's indie band, Oldham born and bred
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* Jane Walsh – writer
* Paul Walsh (businessman), Paul Walsh (born 1955) – Chadderton-born Chief Executive of Diageo
* Sir William Walton (1902–1983) – composer and conductor
* Darren Wharton (born 1961) – keyboardist for rock band Thin Lizzy
* Nicola White (born 1988) – hockey player for England and Team GB
* Annie Whitehead (born 1955) – jazz trombone player
* Ronald Whittam (1925–2023) - physiologist
* Ricky Whittle (born 1979) – Oldham-born model and actor
* Jack Wild (1952–2006) – Royton-born Academy Award-nominated actor, best known for his role as the Artful Dodger in the 1968 musical film ''Oliver! (film), Oliver!''
* Phil Woolas (born 1959) – Lincolnshire-born politician representing Oldham East and Saddleworth; lives in Lees
* Arthur Worsley (1920–2001) – Failsworth-born ventriloquist; appeared regularly on British television from the 1950s to the 1970s
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External links
Famous Sons & Daughters a page from visitoldham.co.uk
{{DEFAULTSORT:List Of People From Oldham
People from the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham,
Lists of English people by location, Oldham
Lists of people from Greater Manchester, Oldham