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- Emmeline Pankhurst - suffragette, born Moss Side
- Karl Pilkington - podcaster, author and TV presenter, known for his work with Ricky Gervais
- Fee Plumley - Digital artist
- John Charles Polanyi - chemist, raised in Manchester, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics
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