Talk:List of people from the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport

Criteria for inclusion
People born in Stockport, people raised in Stockport, or people living in Stockport? Whatever the criteria, it would require verification, most probably by dint of the main articles. What is the difference between this article and Category:People from Stockport? - Tiswas (t) 14:53, 12 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, we don't need to include the word "notable", because we're only ever going to list the notable people. I would recommend list of people from Stockport, in line with Category:Lists of people by U.S. cities (British places are not yet standardised, but this is the pattern that would/should be applied). --Stemonitis 06:24, 13 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Sounds like an idea - I'll change the move suggestion templte - Tiswas (t) 08:50, 13 June 2007 (UTC)


 * For clarification the article was created to try to stop the Stockport article getting another list of notable residents slowly added (the list deleted from there some time back formed the majority of the list that went into this article). I think I based the name on List of notable residents of Reading, Berkshire, perhaps subconsciously the 'notable' was to stress that people shouldn't think 'Hey I'm from Stockport, I'll add myself to the list'. No problem with the move though. I would hope that this and all the other similar lists of people from places could eventually be as different from categories as say List of Cuban birds is from Category:Birds of Cuba. JMiall  ₰  19:34, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 12:01, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Reformating: Cite your sources
OK, the time has come to do a bit of a spring clean to the list and remove all violations of WP:V and WP:BLP. All unsourced additions have been moved here (below) until a source can be fonud which verifies their connection(s) with Stockport:


 * Sidney Gilliat (film director)
 * Ronald Gow (dramatist)
 * Simon Stephens (playwright)
 * Stuart Torevell (camera operator and rigger)
 * Joan Bakewell
 * Judith Chalmers
 * Katie Derham (newsreader)
 * David Dickinson
 * Judy Finnigan
 * Yvette Fielding
 * Cash Peters (author & television and radio presenter)
 * Tess Daly
 * Helen Atkinson-Wood
 * Peter Butterworth
 * Roger Brierley
 * Simon Gregson
 * Wendy Hiller
 * Sally Lindsay
 * Will Mellor
 * Tim McInnerny
 * Dominic Monaghan
 * Gabrielle Ray
 * Sabrina (actress) (real name Norma Anne Sykes)
 * Samantha Siddall
 * Joanne Whalley
 * Craig Cash (TV Writer/Actor)
 * Paul Morley (music journalist, critic, indie label founder)
 * Sarah Harding (member of pop group Girls Aloud)
 * Dom Howard (drummer, Muse)
 * Daz Sampson (DJ Daz) (rapper, DJ, Eurovision contestant, member of Uniting Nations)
 * Jon Thorne (double bass player)
 * Ian Roberts (DJ)
 * Mr. Scruff (producer, recording artist and DJ)
 * Tome Lowe (singer and actor)
 * Geoff Downes (musician)
 * Barb Jungr (singer)
 * Nema Siz (Grime MC)
 * 10cc (band)
 * Hotlegs (band)
 * Northern Uproar (1990s band)
 * Sweet Female Attitude (RnB duo)
 * World of Twist (band)
 * Kill II This (metal band)
 * C. H. Douglas (engineer and pioneer of the Social credit)
 * William Edge (mathematician)
 * Samuel Oldknow (cotton manufacturing pioneer)
 * William Walmsley (founder of the Swallow Sidecar Company)
 * Sir Joseph Whitworth (engineer & entrepreneur)
 * Frederick Williams (pioneer of the computer)
 * John Amaechi (NBA basketballer)
 * Darryl Fitton (darts player)
 * Ricky Hatton (boxer)
 * James Hickman (Olympic swimmer)
 * John Howarth (cricketer)
 * Tony O'Shea (darts player)
 * Fred Perry (tennis player)
 * Peter Boardman (mountaineer)
 * Steve Thomas (ice hockey player (Canada))
 * Charles Wright (speedway rider)
 * James Wright (speedway rider)
 * Damien Allen (footballer)
 * Tony Butler (footballer)
 * Dean Crowe (footballer)
 * Mike Doyle (footballer)
 * Daniel Ellis (footballer)
 * William Garbutt (footballer & manager)
 * Alan Gowling (former footballer)
 * Harry Hardy (former footballer)
 * Andy Holt (footballer)
 * Andrew Hughes (footballer)
 * Billy Kellock (footballer)
 * Adam le Fondre (footballer)
 * Tyrone Mears (footballer)
 * Keith Newton (footballer)
 * Robert Sissons (footballer)
 * James Spencer (footballer)
 * Andy Thomas (footballer)
 * Scott Vernon (footballer)
 * Callum Warburton (footballer)
 * Paul Warhurst (footballer)
 * Charlie Wilson (former footballer)
 * Simon Yeo (footballer)
 * Ben Wharton (footballer)
 * William Astle (journalist, editor of Stockport Advertiser)
 * Samuel Beal (scholar)
 * Edmund Cooper (poet and writer)
 * Tibor Fischer (novelist)
 * Christopher Isherwood (novelist)
 * Peter Riley (poet, essayist and editor)
 * Julian Turner (poet and mental health worker)
 * Driver John Axon GC (locomotive driver and posthumous recipient of George Cross)
 * Sir George Back (Admiral)
 * John Bradshaw (judge in trial of Charles I)
 * Richard Cobden (politician)
 * John Goto (photographer)
 * Joseph Lister (Victoria Cross recipient in WW1)
 * Sir Edmund Shaa (Lord Mayor of London)
 * John Davenport Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth (motoring pioneer and founder of Armstrong Siddeley)
 * Judith Ward (wrongfully convicted of series of Provisional IRA bombings)
 * Tom "Ct-R" Samari (semi-professional Counter-Strike 1.6 player)
 * Charles Webster Leadbeater (clergyman and clairvoyant)
 * Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley (barrister and politician)
 * Norman Foster (architect)
 * Stanley Clifford-Smith (artist)
 * Dodge Family (Trans America Railway/Dodge motor co./Dodge city)

OK, brutal I know, but this will make for a better project and list in the long run. Thanks for your support. --Jza84 | Talk  01:51, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * After almost three years, about time someone (several people, I would think, given the length of the list) did some work on finding sources and getting these back into the list proper. There are some which are unquestionable (though sources still need finding), like Mike Yarwood and Edmund Shaa.  Might be an idea to remove them from this talk page list once they are sourced and included in the main page.  Skinsmoke (talk) 05:11, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Shaun Ryder
What is the connection Shaun Ryder has with Stockport? As far as I'm aware, he's from Salford. Skinsmoke (talk) 05:15, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * None as far as I can tell. I've removed him and several others with this edit owing to lack of sources. --Jza84 | Talk  13:37, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

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