List of People From Sunderland - Famous Sunderland Residents

Famous Sunderland Residents

  • Steve Bruce, manager of Sunderland AFC (2009-2011)
  • Charles Buchan, footballer
  • Lewis Carroll, writer Alice in Wonderland
  • Frank Caws, architect
  • Sir William Herschel, composer and astronomer, discoverer of Uranus
  • Charlie Hurley, footballer
  • L. S. Lowry, artist
  • Lola Montez, adventuress
  • Chris Mullin, Civil Liberty campaigner and MP
  • William Paley, rector of Bishopwearmouth, wrote on intelligent design as opposed to evolution
  • Frank Pick, industrial designer
  • George Reynolds, businessman and former chairman of Darlington FC
  • Len Shackleton, footballer
  • Vivian Stanshall and his wife Ki Longfellow, found the Baltic Trader "Thekla" and sailed her to Bristol where she became the Old Profanity Showboat

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