Notable Haligonians
- Tom Bailey, singer with the Thompson Twins
- Phyllis Bentley, novelist
- James Bintliff, Union Army general
- Henry Briggs, mathematician
- John Reginald Halliday Christie, the murderer from 10 Rillington Place
- Keith Clifford, actor, in Last of the Summer Wine & Coronation Street
- Hannah Cockroft, athlete/double Paralympics gold medallist
- Shirley Crabtree, wrestler Known as 'Big Daddy'
- Jon Driver, scientist
- George Dyson, composer
- Tony Field, footballer
- Stuart Fielden, rugby league footballer
- David Hartley, philosopher
- Charlie Hodgson England and saracens fly half
- Charles Horner, jeweller and inventor of the Dorcas thimble
- Nick Holmes, singer of the band Paradise Lost
- Barrie Ingham, actor
- Paddy Kenny, footballer
- John Kettley, weatherman
- Nick Lawrence, radio presenter
- Anne Lister, diarist and former owner of Shibden Hall
- John Mackintosh, created Mackintosh's Toffee, which became Rowntree Mackintosh
- Harold Vincent Mackintosh 1st Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax & chocolate manufacturer
- Jim Mallinder Northampton Saints coach
- Thomas Milner, actor
- Brian Moore, rugby union footballer, TV Presenter, Pundit and Journalist
- Thomas Nettleton, local physician who carried out some of the earliest systematic programs of smallpox vaccination
- John Noakes, TV presenter
- John Pawson, architect
- Carolyn Pickles, actress
- James Pickles, judge
- Wilfred Pickles, actor, comedian & broadcaster
- Kathryn Pogson, actress
- Eric Portman, actor
- Jesse Ramsden, inventor of the Ramsden theodolite
- Sir Richard Saltonstall, colonist
- Sir Henry Savile, bible translator
- Percy Shaw, inventor of Cat's Eyes, used on public roads
- Ed Sheeran, Singer/songwriter
- Robin Simon, guitarist
- Herbert Akroyd Stuart, inventor of the Hot Bulb Engine (ancestor to the diesel engine)
- John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (1691–1694)
- Brian Turner, chef, restaurateur and TV personality
- John E. Walker, Nobel Prize winning chemist
- Séan Walsh, local poet, writer & artist
- Emma Williams (actress), West End musical theatre actress
- John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, chairman of the Wolfenden committee
- Matthew Wolfenden (actor), actor in ITV's Emmerdale
- Patrick Woodroffe, science fiction and fantasy artist
- Frank Worthington, footballer
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