Notable People
- Rick Astley, pop star, who has had a UK and two US #1s and sold 40 million records
- Andy Burnham, Leigh MP, former Labour leadership candidate and Shadow Education Minister was educated at St Aelred's High School in Newton
- Ed Clancy, Olympic Gold Medalist for Great Britain in the Team Pursuit event at Beijing 2008
- Fran Cotton, started playing for Newton RUFC before moving onto to Sale, England and The British Lions; he runs the Cotton Traders sportswear firm in nearby Altrincham
- Joe Fagan, the former Manchester City player and European Cup winning Liverpool F.C. manager, who resigned his post after the Heysel disaster started his career playing for Earlestown Bohemians FC in the 1930s
- George Formby, then an unknown local comedian from Wigan, made his first stage appearance (as George Hoy) at the Hippodrome Theatre Earlestown Newton-Le-Willows
- Roger Hunt, former Liverpool and England World Cup Winning footballer was born in the neighbouring village of Culcheth; his family's business Hunt Brothers Haulage is based in Newton le Willows
- Martin Kelly, current Liverpool F.C and England U-21 international was raised and lives in Newton
- Wilf Mannion, former Middlesbrough and England winger was the manager of the town's most successful football club, Earlestown FC between 1960 and 1962
- Rodney Porter, scientist, won a Nobel Prize in 1972
- John Randall, scientist, The developer of the Magnetron used in Radar Systems, was born on 23 March 1905 in Newton-le-Willows
- Pete Waterman, the famous record producer is a former resident of the town, and appropriately having once lived there has a famous interest in old railways
- Colin Welland, writer and actor, won an Oscar for writing the script of the film Chariots of Fire
- Mark Whitfield, the London based photographer, grew up in Newton-Le-Willows
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