Notable People
Gordon Farquhar BBC sports reporter for Radio 2. Is the son of the Minister Rev D. Farquhar. Former student of Darwen Vale High School
- Margaret Chapman (née Duxbury), illustrator and painter
- Dick Burton, golf's Open champion, 1939 (who went on to hold the Claret Jug for seven years after the Championship was suspended because of World War II)
- Bryn Haworth, British singer-songwriter was brought up in Darwen
- Edward Harwood, composer (1707–1787)
- John Harwood, Mayor of Accrington 1912–1915, raised the Accrington Pals (11 Battalion East Lancashire Regiment)
- Charles Potter, who printed wallpaper in Darwen, was a cousin of Edmund Potter, grandfather of Beatrix Potter
- Neil Arthur, lead vocalist of 1980s group Blancmange
- Sam Wadsworth, England international footballer 1922–1926, was captain of the England team and a member of the Huddersfield Town team which won a hat-trick of Football League Championships in 1923–4, 1924–5 and 1925–6.
- James Watson, award-winning author
- Mark Patterson, Former professional Footballer.
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