Notable People
Lieutenant Colonel Jack Armand Cunningham (1890-1966) DSO, DFC, Order of Leopold, Legion d'honneur, Croix de guerre, the World War I flying ace, retired to Hoylake and eventually died there.
Julian Budden, Italian opera scholar and BBC radio producer (1924–2007) was born in Hoylake.
The former Olympic Games cyclist Chris Boardman (1968- ) was born in Hoylake.
Helen Forrester (1919- ), author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey was also born in the town.
Former actress and current (as of 2007) Labour MP Glenda Jackson (1936- ), James Bond actor Daniel Craig (1968- ) and pianist Stephen Hough (1961- ) grew up in Hoylake. James Skelly, Ian Skelly, Bill Ryder-Jones, Nick Power, Lee Southall, Paul Duffy, and John Duffy, from the band The Coral, were also raised there.
John Lennon's first wife Cynthia moved from Liverpool to Hoylake after their divorce in 1968. Cynthia had also grown up in Hoylake as a child. Their son Julian Lennon (1963- ) spent much of his early life in Hoylake.
In 1940, comedian Eric Morecambe won a local amateur talent contest, held at Hoylake's Kingsway Cinema. His prize was an audition before impresario Jack Hylton and subsequently where he first met his future comedy partner Ernie Wise.
Mike Rutherford (1950- ) of Genesis was a boarder at The Leas School, formerly on Meols Drive, influenced heavily in his Genesis progression by Joseph Roberts, also from Hoylake.
Curtis Warren (1963- ), well-known Merseyside figure and formerly featured in the Sunday Times Rich List, owned a house on Meols Drive.
Indie rock bands The Coral, The Rascals and The Little Flames are from Hoylake.
Joshua Armitage, pen-name "Ionicus" (1913-1998), the "Punch" artist and designer of covers for Penguin's editions of P.G. Wodehouse, was born in Hoylake and lived and worked there his whole life.
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