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- Bob Mason (actor) - actor known for his roles in numerous British TV productions
- John Milne - Liverpool-born, Milnrow-raised professor, geologist and mining engineer who invented a pioneering seismograph (known as the Milne-Shaw seismograph) to detect and measure earthquakes.
- Vance Miller - controversial entrepreneur from Rochdale.
- Jim Milne - lead guitarist and vocalist in Tractor (band) and co founder of Tractor Sound Studios - see John Peel blue plaque in Heywood
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