Notable Residents
Paul Jewell, a retired footballer and the former manager of Bradford City, Sheffield Wednesday, Wigan Athletic and most recently Ipswich Town, has lived in the village since the 1990s. Smith Wigglesworth, a notable early Pentecostal preacher, was born in Menston in 1859. Eric Knight, the author who created the fictional collie Lassie was born in Menston. Three members of the rock band The Kaiser Chiefs, Nick Hodgson, Nick Baines and Simon Rix met whilst attending St. Mary's Roman Catholic High School in Menston.
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