Notable Residents
- Sir Edward Donner, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Sir John Alcock (RAF officer) KBE, DSC, who with Lieut. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop aeroplane crossing of the Atlantic, lived on Kingswood Road.
- Alexander Maclaren, minister of the Union Chapel
- Pat Phoenix, famous for her role as Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street, was born in Fallowfield in 1923
- C. P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian lived at The Firs
- John Stopford, Baron Stopford of Fallowfield, anatomist and academic
- Thomas Tout, historian
- Sir Joseph Whitworth, engineer, lived at The Firs
- Shaun Ryder, musician and television personality, best known as a member of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape, lived in Fallowfield during the late 1980s.
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