List of people from Newcastle-under-Lyme

This is a list of notable people who were born in or have been residents of the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the county of Staffordshire, England.

Earlier centuries

 * Humphrey Wollrich (1633–1707), Quaker writer
 * Philip Astley (1742–1814), equestrian, inventor and father of the modern circus
 * Silvester Harding (1745–1809), artist and publisher, who joined a company of strolling actors at age 14
 * John James Blunt (1794–1855), Anglican priest who wrote studies of the early Church.

19th century

 * Henry Moseley (1801–1872), churchman, mathematician, and scientist
 * Joseph Mayer (1803–1886), goldsmith, antiquary and collector
 * Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood) (1808–1896), granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood and wife of Charles Darwin
 * Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1812–1894), landowner and peer, inherited the Jacobean Crewe Hall and failed to prevent the construction of a Silverdale and Madeley Railway Company line
 * Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), physicist, inventor and writer
 * Arthur Howard Heath (1856–1930), industrialist, cricketer, Rugby Union international and local Conservative MP
 * Sir Joseph Cook (1860 in Silverdale – 1947), worked in the local coalmines before emigrating in 1885; Prime Minister of Australia, 1913–1914
 * Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, (1861–1929), lived in Keele Hall in 1900–1909.
 * Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), writer
 * Ada Nield Chew (1870–1945), suffragist
 * Alfred Herbert Richardson (1874–1951), policeman and Chief Constable of Newcastle-under-Lyme 1901-1903
 * Oliver William Foster Lodge (1878–1955), poet and author born in Newcastle
 * Fanny Deakin (1883–1968), local politician born in Silverdale, who campaigned for child nourishment and maternity care.
 * Vera Brittain (1893–1970), author, reformer and pacifist, and mother of Shirley Williams
 * Reginald Mitchell (1895–1937), designer of the Spitfire fighter plane

20th century

 * E. S. Turner (1909–2006), journalist and author, went to school in the town.
 * Fred Kite (1921–1993), only Second World War British soldier to receive the Military Medal three times
 * Freddie Garrity (1936–2006), singer, lived in the town near the end of his life.
 * Jackie Trent (1940–2015), singer, songwriter and actress
 * Neil Baldwin (born 1946), clown, Stoke City kit-man and honorary graduate of Keele University
 * Kevin John Dunn (1950–2008), twelfth Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
 * Professor Alan Sinclair (born 1952), clinical scientist and diabetes specialist
 * Dylan Waldron (born 1953), artist in traditional techniques such as painting in egg tempera and silverpoint
 * Janet Bloomfield (1953–2007), peace and disarmament campaigner
 * Fran Unsworth (born 1957), journalist, head of BBC News since January 2018
 * Emma Amos (born 1964), actress
 * Andrew Van Buren (living), illusionist showman, co-founder of the Philip Astley Project
 * Hugh Dancy, (born 1975), actor
 * Charlotte Salt, (born 1985), actress as Sam Nicholls in Casualty (TV series)
 * Dan Croll, (born 1990) singer and songwriter
 * Leon Cooke (born 1991), actor, singer and dancer
 * Wes Nelson (born 1998), singer and reality television star
 * Daniel Jones (born 1973), former professional ballet dancer with English National Ballet, choreographer, producer, documentary maker, and now doing wonders for the arts in Newcastle-under-Lyme
 * Norman Berrisford (born 1928), architectural designer

Notable sports people

 * Dick Ray (1876–1952) professional footballer and manager with Port Vale and Manchester City
 * Frederick Bailey (1919–1985), left-handed English cricketer
 * Don Ratcliffe (1934–2014), footballer with Stoke City
 * Mike Pejic (born 1950), footballer with Stoke City and Everton
 * Ian Moores (1954–1998) footballer with Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur
 * Robbie Earle (born 1965), footballer with Port Vale and Wimbledon
 * Graham Shaw (born 1967) footballer with Stoke City
 * Dominic Cork, (born 1971) cricketer
 * Simon Wakefield (born 1974), professional golfer
 * Lizzie Neave (born 1987), slalom canoeist in women's kayak, competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics
 * Oliver Sadler (born 1987), first-class cricketer
 * Peter Wilshaw (born 1987), cricketer
 * Eddie Hall (born 1988), professional strongman
 * Danielle Wyatt (born 1991), professional England cricketer
 * Curtis Nelson (born 1993), footballer for Plymouth Argyle F.C.
 * Aaron Ramsdale (born 1998), footballer

Notable politicians

 * Sir John Merrick (1584–1659), politician and Newcastle-under-Lyme MP
 * Robert Needham, 2nd Viscount Kilmorey (1587/88–1653), supporter of Charles I; MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme in the Addled Parliament in 1614.
 * Sir Richard Leveson (1598–1661), MP for Newcastle in the Long Parliament
 * Samuel Terrick (1602–1675), local politician. In 1658 he went bankrupt for £20,000.
 * Major-General Thomas Harrison (1606–1660) sided with Parliament in the English Civil War. In 1649 he signed the death warrant of Charles I and in 1660, after the Restoration, was found guilty of regicide and hanged, drawn and quartered.
 * Sir Richard Lloyd (1606–1676), English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1628 and 1676. In April 1640, Lloyd was MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme in the Short Parliament.
 * Sir Alfred Seale Haslam (1844–1927) engineer, three times Mayor of Newcastle, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1900–1906
 * Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood (1872–1943), Josiah Wedgwood IV, great-great-grandson of Josiah Wedgwood and Liberal MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1906-1919, then its Labour MP 1919-1942
 * Sir Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), founder of British Union of Fascists lived in Apedale Hall in early 1900s
 * John David Mack (c. 1899–1957), Labour Party MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1942–1951.
 * Stephen Swingler (1915–1969) Labour MP for Stafford, 1945–1950, and for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1951–1969
 * John Golding (1931–1999), Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1969-1986
 * Llin Golding, Baroness Golding (born 1933), Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1986-2001
 * Jeremy Lefroy (born 1959) Westlands councillor, MP for Stafford since 2010
 * Paul Farrelly (born 1962), MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme and journalist
 * Karen Bradley (born 1970), MP for Staffordshire Moorlands and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
 * Aaron Bell (born 1980) politician, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme since 2019
 * Gareth Snell (born 1986), graduate of Keele University 2008, leader of the Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council 2012–2014 and MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central since 2017