Norman Beaker – born Norman Hume in 1950 in Longsight, blues guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, band leader and record producer, officially recognised and inducted as a Legend in the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.[12][13]
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) – Manchester-born and educated author, poet, playwright, musician, linguist, translator and critic, known for novel A Clockwork Orange[17]
Aaron Davis (born 1990) – better known by his stage name Bugzy Malone, rapper and actor, first artist in the grime genre from Manchester to commercially succeed in the UK[30]
Howard Jacobson – Man Booker Prize-winning British Jewish author and journalist, best known for writing comic novels that often revolve around the dilemmas of British Jewish characters[53]
Brian Kidd – football coach; assistant manager at Manchester City since December 2009; former player; assistant manager to Alex Ferguson at Manchester United in the 1990s; member of the Manchester United team that won the European Cup in 1968; born in Collyhurst[55]
Marc Riley – musician; alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC 6 Music; former member of the Fall; had his own record label, In-Tape; also worked as a record plugger[79]
Nobby Stiles – born in Collyhurst, former football midfielder Stiles, Bobby Charlton and Ian Callaghan are the only Englishmen to have won both World and European Cups[84]
J. J. Thomson – physicist and Nobel laureate; credited with the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer; awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron and his work on the conduction of electricity in gases[86]
^Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 345.
