Accrington - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

  • Jon Anderson, singer with rock band Yes, was born there
  • Harrison Birtwistle, composer
  • Thomas Birtwistle, trade unionist
  • Mike Duxbury, footballer, was born in the town
  • Graeme Fowler, cricketer, former England batsman, cricket coach and occasional pundit on BBC Radio's Test Match Special
  • Andy Hargreaves, academic
  • Frederick Higginbottom, journalist and newspaper editor
  • Julie Hesmondhalgh, actor, Hayley Cropper in the TV Soap Coronation Street
  • Vicky Entwistle, actor, Janice Battersby in the TV Soap Coronation Street
  • Ron Hill, long-distance and marathon runner
  • Netherwood Hughes, World War I veteran, died in 2009, aged 108
  • David Lloyd, cricketer, now a pundit for Sky Sports
  • Mystic Meg, astrologer, born in the town as Margaret Anne Lake in 1952
  • Edward Ormerod, mining engineer and inventor of the Ormerod safety link for use in coal mines
  • Alan Ramsbottom, professional cyclist
  • Hollie Steel, Britain's Got Talent finalist of 2009
  • Diana Vickers, singer-songwriter, stage actress and fashion designer
  • John Virtue, artist
  • John Rex Whinfield, chemist, inventor of Terylene (polyester), the first completely synthetic fibre invented in UK
  • Jeanette Winterson, author, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is an account of her childhood in the town
  • Edmund Riley, Builder of the Victorian Arcade.

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