Famous Residents

1. John Amaechi O.B.E.

Born 26 November 1970 English psychologist, consultant and former professional basketball player.

2. Justin Moorhouse

Born 15 May 1970 English stand-up comedian, radio DJ and actor

3. Baroness Joan Bakewell D.B.E. Born 16 April 1933

Journalist, television presenter, Labour Party peer, author and playwright
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4. Alex Stepney Born 18 September 1942

Manchester United’s goalkeeper when they became the first English club to win the European Cup

5. Cecil Kimber

12 April 1888 – 4 February 1945 Motor car designer, best known for his role in being the driving force behind the M.G. Car Company

6. Captain Sir John Alcock K.B.E. D.S.C.

5 November 1892 – 19 December 1919 Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919
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7. Harry Worth [Harry Bourlon Illingsworth]

20 November 1917 – 20 July 1989 Comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist.

8. Caroline Aherne

24 December 1963 – 2 July 2016 Comedian, writer and actress, best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host Mrs Merton, and as Denise in The Royle Family.

9. Gary Mounfield [Mani – Stone Roses]

Born 16 November 1962
Rock bassist, member of the Stone Roses and Primal Scream. Won the 2005 Muso Awards Best Bass Guitar Player
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10. Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE [AV Roe – AVRO]

26 April 1877- 4 January 1958 Pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer. Founder in 1910 of the AVRO company. His first successful flight in 1909 was his aircraft, Avroplane, which was a triplane

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11. John Brian 'George' Statham C.B.E.

17 June 1930 – 10 June 2000 was an English professional fast bowler cricketer who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1950 to 1968 and for England from 1951 to 1965. As an England player, he took part in nine overseas tours from 1950–51 to 1962–65 taking 252 Test wickets. He was noted for the consistent accuracy of his length and direction. He'd lived in St. James Road, Heaton Moor.

12. Hans Reynold

31 July 1852 - 2 May 1943
He was a Swiss/British engineer, inventor and industrialist who invented the brush roller chain, founding the Reynold manufacturing textile-chain making business in 1879. Born in Aarau, Switzerland, in 1906 he opened his Reynold Chains factory in Burnage.
He lived at Priestnall Hey on Mersey Road in Heaton Mersey from 1901.
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13. Peter Simon Barnes

Born 10 June 1957
He is an English former international football player, manager and pundit. An England Youth and under-21 international, Barnes was a member of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship winning team in 1975. An attacking left-sided winger, his playing career spanned 19 years and took him to 25 clubs across eight countries including Manchester City and Manchester United. [He is the son of Ken Barnes, who won the FA Cup with Manchester City in 1956]. He won 22 senior caps for England.
He lived at March Avenue, Norris Bank.

14. Val McDermid

Born 4 June 1955
She is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of novels featuring clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill in a grim sub-genre that McDermid and others have identified as Tartan Noir.
She had lived in Stanley Grove in Heaton Moor.

15. Craig Cash

He is an English comedian, actor, narrator, director and BAFTA award-winning writer and producer. His best known works are in the television shows The Royle Family, The Fast Show, The Mrs Merton Show, Early Doors, Sunshine and most recently The Café, Rovers and After Hours. Cash won two BAFTA Television awards for his work on The Royle Family. He had lived in Heaton Moor.
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Liam Tarquin Broady

He is a tennis player and was British No. 6 in 2010, when he won the Boys' Doubles at Wimbledon with Tom Farquharson
He reaching the Boys' Singles finals at Wimbledon 2011 and US Open 2012, peaking at No. 2 in the junior world rankings.
His family lived in Langford Road, Heaton Chapel.

17. Eileen Derbyshire M.B.E.

Born 6 October 1931
She is an English retired actress, best known for her role as Emily Bishop in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. She played the character for 55 years from January 1961 to January 2016 making her the longest-serving female cast member in a British TV soap opera. She was appointed an MBE in the 2010 Queens Birthday Honours list for her long acting career.

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, Kt, RA, Hon. FREng.

Born 1 June 1935
He was born in Reddish and was schooled nearby at Burnage Grammar School for Boys. He is a British architect and designer. Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His architectural practice Foster + Partners, first founded in 1967 and is the largest in the United Kingdom, maintaining offices internationally. He is the president of the Norman Foster Foundation, created to 'promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists to anticipate the future'.
Foster designed the Gherkin and in 2004, he designed the tallest bridge in the world, the Millau Viaduct at 1,104 feet, in Southern France.
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19. Sally Jane Lindsay

Born 8 July 1973
She is an English actress and television presenter known for her roles as Shelley Unwin in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street. Her first television appearance was aged 7 when she sang in the St. Winifred's School choir.
When she was 24, she met and became friends with comedian Peter Kay. Subsequently, they appeared together in Phoenix Nights. In 2006, she played Marilyn Monroe in the musical Ella, meet Marilyn.
She appeared in an episode of Through the Keyhole in December 2018, where it was revealed that she lived in Heaton Mersey.

20. 'Lemmy' - Ian Fraser Kilmiste

24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015
In Stockport in Lemmy's early years 1960 -1970, he joined local bands the Rainmakers and then the Motown Sect who played northern clubs. In 1965, he then joined The Rockin' Vickers. He next became a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975 and sang lead vocals on their hit "Silver Machine". In 1975, he was fired from Hawkwind after an arrest for drug possession. He then founded the rock band Motörhead, as lead singer, bassist and primary songwriter. The band's success peaked around 1980 and 1981, including the hit single "Ace of Spades".
He lived in Heaton Moor in the early 1960s.

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