Cheetham Hill - Notable People

Notable People

See also: List of people from Manchester
  • Jessie Fothergill, (1851–1891) novelist, was born in Cheetham Hill
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett — writer of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess was born in Cheetham Hill
  • J. J. Thomson — English physicist who discovered the electron and won the Nobel Prize was born in Cheetham Hill
  • Howard Jacobson — author, was born and raised in Cheetham Hill
  • Abraham Hyman — survivor of the Titanic liner disaster, opened a delicatessen in Cheetham Hill, where it remains to this day
  • Jack Rosenthal — playwright, most famous for 'The Evacuees', 'Bar Mitzvah Boy', 'London's Burning' and early episodes of 'Coronation Street'
  • Benny Rothman — political activist, famous for taking part in the Mass trespass of Kinder Scout in Derbyshire
  • Don Arden — music promoter and manager of the Small Faces, ELO (born Harry Levy), father of Sharon Osbourne was born in Cheetham Hill

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