Notable People
The internationally respected poet and author Norman Nicholson, one of the most important English poets of the twentieth century whose work was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber, spent his entire life in Millom, living at his father's outfitters shop at 14 St George's Terrace. A blue plaque above the door commemorates Nicholson and a flourishing literary society is dedicated to his work. England international footballer, Jimmy Settle, was born in Millom in 1874.
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