List of people from Barrow-in-Furness
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This is a list of notable people who were born in or have been residents of the town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The demonym of Barrow is Barrovian.
(Bold = born in Barrow)
Contents
Entertainment
Music
- Aim - musician, DJ and record producer[1]
- Glenn Cornick - ex-first bass player in the rock band Jethro Tull[2]
- Paul MacKenzie - bass player in thrash metal band Xentrix[3]
- Thomas Round - retired singer and actor[4]
- Chris While - award winning songwriter, singer and musician
- Kellie While - singer-songwriter considered to have one of the outstanding voices of her generation
- The Yage Letters - band based in Barrow
Arts
- Clifford Last - sculptor. Son of Nella Last
- George Romney - painter and early member of the famed Romney family, was born in Dalton and raised in Ormsgill
- Constance Spry - author and florist[5]
- Keith Tyson, artist and Turner Prize winner, was born in Ulverston and educated in Dalton and Barrow[6]
Television
- Michael Absalom - television presenter (a.k.a. Abs on CBBC)
- David Barber - television actor
- Steve Dixon - newsreader for Sky News[7]
- Nigel Kneale - film and television scriptwriter[8]
- Dave Myers - biker turned TV chef[9]
- Peter Purves - actor and television presenter who lived and worked in Barrow when he began his acting career[10]
- Karen Taylor - television comedian[11]
Sport
Football
- Wayne Curtis - Barrow AFC striker[12]
- Ben Davies - York City F.C. and Preston North End defender
- Neil Doherty - Watford, Birmingham City, Northampton Town and Kidderminster Harriers winger[13]
- Keith Eddy - Watford, Sheffield United and New York Cosmos player[14]
- Harry Hadley - professional footballer and football manager[15]
- Emlyn Hughes - England defender and Liverpool captain[16]
- Doug MacFarlane - Tottenham Hotspur forward
- Billy McAdams - Manchester City and Barrow A.F.C. striker
- Ian McDonald - midfielder for seven English teams between 1971 and 1988[17]
- Frank McPherson - Barrow A.F.C., Manchester United and Watford F.C forward[18]
- Vic Metcalfe - Sunderland A.F.C. centre back[19]
- Jim Parker - Burnley and Bradford Park Avenue defender
- Jack Pelter - Huddersfield Town and Hull City midfielder[20]
- Mike Pike - The Football League referee
- Harry Roberts - England forward
- Gary Stevens - England and Everton defender[21]
- Ron Suart - former English football player and manager (most notably of Chelsea)
- Albert Tomkin - Former outside left player for Tottenham Hotspur
- David Walders - Former defender for Barrow, Burnley and Oldham Athletic
- Jack Walders - Former winger for Barrow, Burnley and Oldham Athletic
- Fred Walker - footballer and former manager of Huddersfield Town
- Jason Walker - current York striker; former player for Dundee, Greenock Morton and Morecambe
Rugby league
- Paul Crarey - former Barrow Raiders and Whitehaven coach
- Ade Gardner - Barrow Raiders and St. Helens winger[22]
- Mat Gardner - rugby league player, who currently plays for the Huddersfield Giants[23] Matt has now moved to Salford Giants
- Ben Harrison - Warrington Wolves player and Ireland international
- Liam Harrison - Barrow Raiders player and Ireland international
- Willie Horne - Great Britain stand-off and Barrow rugby football captain[24]
- Phil Jackson - Canadian former rugby league player[25]
- Jimmy Lewthwaite - rugby league winger for Barrow and Great Britain, inducted in Barrow Hall of fame alongside Willie Horn and Phil Jackson[26]
Other sports
- Caroline Alexander - cross country mountain biker and road cyclist
- George Bigg - cricketer
- Kenneth A. Bray - sport teacher and member of the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame
- Mike Burns - cricketer, captain of Somerset County Cricket Club
- Eddie Crook - professional Isle of Man TT Races rider
- Stuart Horne - cricketer
- John Iberson - cricketer
- Adam Roynon - professional speedway rider[27]
- Len Wilkinson - cricketer[28]
Academia
- James G. Crossley - professor of New Testament, part-time professional wrestler, author of Jesus in an Age of Neoliberalism: Scholarship, Intellectuals and Ideology (2012), Harnessing Chaos: The Bible in English Political Discourse since 1968 (2014), and critic of anti-Semitic biblical scholar Bruce Malina[29]
- William Eccles - physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication
- Thomas Fresh - pioneeer of environmental health and Liverpool's first public health officer
- Pat Hudson - Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cardiff.
Miscellaneous
- Chris Blackhurst - editor of The Independent[30]
- Annie Currie - Barrow-born woman of Scottish origin who was married to American physicist Robert H. Dicke
- Gordon Fallows - Church of England bishop
- Maurice Flitcroft - amateur golfer and a hoaxer[31]
- William Thomas Forshaw - British Army officer, and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Nella Last - published wartime diarist[32]
- Derek Pattinson - Secretary-General of the General Synod of the Church of England[33]
- Sir Leonard Redshaw - shipbuilder
- Dame Stella Rimington - Director-General (DG) of MI5 from 1992 to 1996[34]
- William Sykes - clergyman
Fictional characters
- Álvaro de Campos - heteronym created by Fernando Pessoa
- Charles Parker - detective in the Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Numerous individuals from The Railway Series; Barrow is strongly associated with the stories
Gallery
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Ade Gardner.jpg
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Ben Harrison Warrington.jpg
References
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