List of Freemen of the City of Manchester

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City of Manchester.

Individuals

 * Oliver Heywood: 1888.
 * Sir Henry Morton Stanley : 1890.
 * Abel Heywood: 1891.
 * Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde: 1892.
 * James Jardine: 1892.
 * Professor Sir Adolphus Ward : 1897.
 * Herbert Philips : 1897.
 * Enriqueta Augustina Rylands: 1899.
 * Robert Dukinfield Darbishire: 1899.
 * Richard Copley Christie: 1899.
 * Sir William Crossley : 1903.
 * Alderman Harry Rawson: 1903.
 * Sir William Houldsworth : 1905.
 * Benn Wolfe Levy: 1905.
 * George Milner: 1905.
 * Alderman James Wilson Southern: 1906.
 * Rt Hon Sir Wilfrid Laurier : 1907.
 * Alfred Deakin: 1907.
 * Rt Hon Sir Joseph Ward: : 1907.
 * Rt Hon Sir Leander Starr Jameson : 1907.
 * Rt Hon Sir Robert Bond : 1907.
 * Rt Hon Sir Frederick Moor : 1907.
 * Rt Hon Louis Botha: 1907.
 * Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater : 1914.
 * Rt Hon William Morris Hughes : 1916.
 * Sir Edward Holt: 1916.
 * Sir Edward Donner : 1916.
 * General Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh Bahadur : 1917.
 * Sir James Meston : 1917.
 * Rt Hon Lord Sinha : 1917.
 * Rt Hon Sir Robert Borden : 1917.
 * Rt Hon William Massey: 1917.
 * Field Marshal Rt Hon Jan Smuts PC OM CH * DTD ED KC FRS: 1917.
 * Rt Hon Lord Morris : 1917.
 * Rt Hon David Lloyd George: 1918.
 * President Woodrow Wilson: 1918.
 * Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty : 1919.
 * Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig : 1919.
 * Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch: 1923.
 * Rt Hon William Lyon Mackenzie King : 1926.
 * Rt Hon Lord Bruce of Melbourne : 1926.
 * Rt Hon Gordon Coates : 1926.
 * General Rt Hon J. B. M. Hertzog : 1926.
 * W. T. Cosgrave: 1926.
 * Walter Stanley Monroe: 1926.
 * Maharajadhiraja Bahadur Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab : 1926.
 * C. P. Scott: 1930.
 * Rt Hon Earl of Derby : 1934.
 * Alderman Hermann Julius Goldschmidt: 1937.
 * Alderman William Turner Jackson: 1937.
 * Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill : 1943.
 * Field Marshal Rt Hon Sir Bernard Montgomery : 1945.
 * Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Tedder : 1945.
 * Admiral of the Fleet Rt Hon Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope : 1945.
 * Field Marshal Rt Hon Sir Harold Alexander : 1945.
 * Alderman Sir William Kay: 1949.
 * Rt Hon Clement Attlee : 1953.
 * Alderman Sir Miles Ewart Mitchell: 1954.
 * Alderman Dame Mary Kingsmill Jones : 1956.
 * Alderman Wright Robinson: 1956
 * Professor Sir John Stopford : 1956.
 * Sir John Barbirolli : 1958.
 * Rt Hon Lord Simon of Wythenshawe: 1959.
 * Rt Hon Earl of Derby : 1961.
 * Lady Simon of Wythenshawe: 1964.
 * Sir Matthew Busby KCSG: 1967.
 * Alderman Thomas Francis Regan: 1973.
 * Alderman Sir Richard Harper : 1973.
 * Alderman Sir Robert Thomas: 1973.
 * Alderman Dame Elizabeth Yarwood : 1974.
 * Alderman Mrs. Nellie Beer : 1974.
 * Professor Sir Bernard Lovell : 1977.
 * Alderman Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw : 1984.
 * The Very Reverend Alfred Jowett : 1984.
 * Sir Alexander Ferguson : 1999.
 * Anthony Wilson: 2007.
 * Sir Robert Charlton : 2008.
 * Professor Sir Andre Geim : 9 October 2013.
 * Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov : 9 October 2013.

Military units

 * The Manchester Regiment: 1946.
 * 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron, RAuxAF: 1957.
 * The King's Regiment: 1962.
 * The Grenadier Guards: 1964.
 * HMS Manchester, RN: 1998.
 * The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 6 December 2006.
 * 207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Volunteers): 2 February 2011
 * 209 (The Manchester Artillery) Battery 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery: 25 November 2020.

Honorary citizens
On 12 July 2017, American singer Ariana Grande became the first honorary citizen of Manchester, after a unanimous vote by the Manchester City Council.