Notable Residents
- Loui Batley (actress and dancer)
- Bill Beaumont (former England rugby union captain)
- Walter Berg (astronomer/astrologer)
- Leonora Carrington (painter)
- Phil Cool (comedian)
- C. D. Darlington (biologist)
- Derek Draper (former Labour spin doctor and newspaper columnist)
- John Foxx (musician)
- Joseph Gilgun (actor)
- Paul Grayson (England rugby union player)
- Rick Guard (jazz singer and songwriter)
- Sir Walter Haworth (Nobel Prize winner)
- Trevor Hemmings (businessman)
- Conrad Hunte (former West Indian Test cricketer, lived in Chorley before the 1957 Test Series against England)
- Michael Jennings (boxer)
- Charles Lightoller (highest-ranking crew member to survive the RMS Titanic)
- Paul McKenna (footballer)
- Paul Mariner (England international footballer)
- Barry Mason (songwriter)
- Ken Morley (actor)
- Phil Parkinson (ex-footballer, now football manager)
- Steve Pemberton (comedian)
- Jason Queally (cyclist)
- Thomas Rawlinson (industrialist, believed to have been born in Chorley)
- Adrian Rigby (artist)
- Kevin Simm (musician, Liberty X)
- Tom Smith (cricketer)
- Dave Spikey (comedian)
- Myles Standish (founder of the Pilgrim Fathers)
- Starsailor (pop group)
- Tom Criddle Stephenson (journalist and champion of walkers' rights)
- Sir Henry Tate (sugar magnate and founder of the Tate Gallery, London)
- Joel Tomkins (rugby league footballer)
- Sam Tomkins (rugby league footballer)
- Josh Charnley (rugby league footballer)
- David Unsworth (former footballer and current Preston North End development coach)
- Mickey Walsh (former Irish international footballer)
- Sir Holburt Jacob Waring Bt CBE FRCS Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1922-24
- Rosemarie Wright (pianist)
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