List of people from Barrow-in-Furness

This is a list of notable people who were born in or have been residents of the town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The demonym of Barrow is Barrovian.

Music

 * Aim – musician, DJ and record producer
 * Grian Chatten - musician, lead singer of post-punk band Fontaines D.C. was born in Barrow-in-Furness
 * Glenn Cornick – ex first bass player in the rock band Jethro Tull
 * Stephen Fitzpatrick – lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Her's
 * Ken Lemon - country musician
 * Thomas Round – retired singer and actor
 * Chris While – award winning songwriter, singer and musician
 * Kellie While – singer songwriter
 * The Yage Letters – band based in Barrow

Arts

 * Allan Campbell McLean - writer and political activist
 * James Cranke - portrait painter
 * John Duffy - medical historian and writer
 * A. Harry Griffin - journalist and mountaineer
 * Richard Gross - sculptor
 * Henry Robinson Hall - landscape painter
 * Clifford Last – sculptor. son of Nella Last
 * Richard Howard Penton - marine and landscape painter
 * George Romney – painter and early member of the famed Romney family, was born in Dalton and raised in Ormsgill
 * Constance Spry – author and florist
 * Keith Tyson – artist and Turner Prize winner, was born in Ulverston and educated in Dalton and Barrow

Television

 * Blake Butler - television actor
 * Steve Dixon – presenter for GB News
 * Nigel Kneale – film and television scriptwriter
 * Dave Myers – biker turned TV chef
 * Jeffrey Perry – television actor
 * Peter Purves – actor and television presenter who lived and worked in Barrow when he began his acting career
 * Karen Taylor – television comedian

Football

 * Wayne Curtis – Barrow AFC striker
 * Ben Davies – Preston North End, Liverpool F.C. and Rangers F.C. defender
 * Neil Doherty – Watford, Birmingham City, Northampton Town and Kidderminster Harriers winger
 * Keith Eddy – Watford, Sheffield United and New York Cosmos player
 * Harry Hadley – professional footballer and football manager
 * Emlyn Hughes – England defender, England Captain and Liverpool captain
 * Doug MacFarlane – Tottenham Hotspur forward
 * Billy McAdams – Manchester City and Barrow A.F.C. striker
 * Ian McDonald – midfielder for seven English teams between 1971 and 1988
 * Frank McPherson – Barrow A.F.C., Manchester United and Watford F.C forward
 * Vic Metcalfe – Sunderland A.F.C. centre back
 * Jim Parker – Burnley and Bradford Park Avenue defender
 * Jack Pelter – Huddersfield Town and Hull City midfielder
 * Harry Roberts – England forward
 * Gary Stevens – England and Everton defender
 * Ron Suart – former English football player and manager (most notably of Chelsea)
 * George Thomason - midfielder for Bolton Wanderers
 * Albert Tomkin – former outside left player for Tottenham Hotspur
 * David Walders – former defender for Barrow, Burnley and Oldham Athletic
 * Jack Walders – former winger for Barrow, Burnley and Oldham Athletic
 * Fred Walker – footballer and former manager of Huddersfield Town
 * Jason Walker – current York striker; former player for Dundee, Greenock Morton and Morecambe
 * Ron Staniforth – footballer for England, Sheffield Wednesday and Barrow.
 * Georgia Stanway - footballer for England and Bayern Munich

Rugby league

 * Paul Crarey – former Barrow Raiders and Whitehaven coach
 * Ade Gardner – Barrow Raiders and St. Helens winger
 * Mat Gardner – rugby league player, who currently plays for the Huddersfield Giants Matt has now moved to Salford Giants
 * Ben Harrison – Warrington Wolves player and Ireland international
 * Liam Harrison – Barrow Raiders player and Ireland international
 * Willie Horne – Great Britain stand-off and Barrow Raiders rugby football captain
 * Phil Jackson – Canadian former professional rugby league footballer
 * Jimmy Lewthwaite – rugby league winger for Barrow and Great Britain, inducted in Barrow Hall of fame alongside Willie Horn and Phil Jackson
 * Jacques O'Neill - rugby league player for Castleford Tigers, also known for participating in TV series Love Island

Motor Sport

 * Adam Roynon – motorcyclist – speedway rider

Cricket

 * George Bigg – cricketer
 * Stuart Horne – cricketer
 * Liam Livingstone – cricketer, England white ball cricket international and captain of Lancashire County Cricket Club
 * John Iberson – cricketer
 * Mike Burns – cricketer, captain of Somerset County Cricket Club
 * Len Wilkinson – cricketer

Other sports

 * Caroline Alexander – cross country mountain biker, road cyclist and two time Olympian
 * Dee Bateman - professional darts player
 * Kenneth A. Bray – sports teacher and member of the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame
 * Liam Conroy – Light-heavyweight boxer

Academia

 * William Eccles – physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication
 * Brian Fender – academic executive
 * Thomas Fresh – pioneer of environmental health and Liverpool's first public health officer
 * Pat Hudson – Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cardiff
 * Kenneth L. Johnson - engineering professor
 * Norman H. Joy - ornithologist and coleopterist
 * Winifred Pennington - limnologist and biologist
 * Paul R. Spiring - scientist and author
 * John Strong - educationalist
 * Rick Turner- archaeologist
 * Kathryn Warner - historian and author

Miscellaneous

 * William Black, Baron Black - chair of various coach building companies
 * Chris Blackhurst – editor of The Independent
 * Elsie Blundell - Member of Parliament for Heywood and Middleton North
 * Ernest Radcliffe Bond - soldier and Metropolitan Police officer
 * George Glover Campbell - Australian politician
 * Victor Chavez – current (2020) Chief Executive of Thales UK
 * Gordon Fallows – Church of England bishop
 * Maurice Flitcroft – amateur golfer and a hoaxer
 * William Thomas Forshaw – British Army officer, and recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Tom Hollywood - trade unionist
 * Nella Last – published wartime diarist
 * Rosalind Mitchell - politician
 * Stuart McMillan - Scottish politician
 * Hazel Newberry - professional dancer
 * Charles Oldham - Australian politician
 * Brian Orrell - trade unionist
 * Derek Pattinson – Secretary General of the General Synod of the Church of England
 * James Ramsden - industrialist and key figure in founding of Barrow
 * Nikhil Rathi – chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority
 * Sir Leonard Redshaw – shipbuilder
 * Dame Stella Rimington – Director-General (DG) of MI5 from 1992 to 1996
 * Henry Schneider - industrialist and key figure in founding of Barrow
 * Cat Smith - Member of Parliament for Lancaster and Fleetwood
 * William Sykes – clergyman
 * Frank Taylor - sports journalist
 * John Tovey - restaurateur
 * Dame Emma Walmsley – current (2023) CEO of GlaxoSmithKline

Fictional characters

 * Álvaro de Campos – heteronym created by Fernando Pessoa
 * Charles Parker – detective in the Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers