Famous people from Halifax

usetobunkin

John Christie the Serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe lived in Halifax

seth plum

Anne Lister

Lincsaddick

 a few more .. 

Notable people[edit]

Main article: List of people from Halifax, West Yorkshire

• Tom Bailey, singer with the Thompson Twins
• William Swinden Barber, architect
• Richard Bedford, singer
• Phyllis Bentley, novelist
• James Bintliff, Union Army General
• Sarah Blackwood, singer
• Harry "Hbomberguy" Brewis, leftist internet personality
• Bramwell Booth, former Salvation Army General
• Henry Briggs, mathematician
• Kenny Carter, Speedway Rider. British Champion 1984 1985. World Pairs champion 1983
• Alan Carter, Road racer 250cc. Youngest ever winner of a Grand Prix. Le Mans (1983)
• John Reginald Halliday Christie, the murderer from 10 Rillington Place
• Lindsay Clarke, Novelist
• Keith Clifford, actor, in Last of the Summer Wine and Coronation Street
• Hannah Cockroft, athlete/double Paralympic gold medallist
• Shirley Crabtree, wrestler professionally known as 'Big Daddy'
• Barney Cutbill, cricketer
• Jon Driver, scientist
• George Dyson, composer
• Arthur Edward Ellis, football referee
• Jonathan Fairbanks, builder of the Fairbanks House
• Tony Field, footballer
• Stuart Fielden, rugby league footballer
• Oliver Hannon-Dalby, cricketer
• Howard Greenhalgh, music video and advertising director
• David Hartley, philosopher
• Brian Highley, television and Trivial Pursuit question writer
• Charlie Hodgson, rugby union fly half for England and Saracens
• Charles Horner, jeweller and inventor of the Dorcas thimble
• Jocelyn Horner, sculptor
• Nick Holmes, singer of the band Paradise Lost
• Barrie Ingham, actor
• Paddy Kenny, footballer
• John Kettley, weatherman
• Don Lang, musician
• Nick Lawrence, radio presenter
• John Lawton, singer in the band Uriah Heep[38]
• Alex Lees, cricketer
• Anne Lister, diarist and former owner of Shibden Hall
• Ernest Lister, eighth Governor of the U.S. state of Washington[39]
• John Mackintosh, created Mackintosh's Toffee, which became Rowntree Mackintosh
• Harold Vincent Mackintosh 1st Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax & chocolate manufacturer
• Jim Mallinder, Northampton Saints coach
• Brian Moore, rugby union footballer, TV presenter, pundit and journalist
• Thomas Nettleton, local physician who carried out some of the earliest systematic programs of smallpox vaccination
• John Noakes, TV presenter[40]
• John Pawson, architect
• Carolyn Pickles, actress
• James Pickles, judge
• Wilfred Pickles, actor, comedian and broadcaster
• Kathryn Pogson, actress
• Eric Portman, actor
• Jesse Ramsden, inventor of the Ramsden theodolite
• John Alan Robinson, philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist
• Sir Richard Saltonstall, colonist
• Rebecca Sarker, actress
• Sir Henry Savile, bible translator
• Percy Shaw, inventor of Cat's Eyes, used on public roads
• Ed Sheeran, singer-songwriter
• Robin Simon, guitarist
• Sir Matthew Smith, artist
• Oliver Smithies, Nobel Prize winning physiologist
• Sir James Stansfeld, Radical and Liberal politician and social reformer
• Herbert Akroyd Stuart, inventor of the Hot Bulb Engine (ancestor to the diesel engine)
• John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (1691–1694)
• Brian Turner, chef, restaurateur and TV personality
• John E. Walker, Nobel Prize winning chemist
• Gareth Widdop, Rugby league footballer
• Emma Williams, West End musical theatre actress
• John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, chairman of the Wolfenden committee
• Matthew Wolfenden, actor in ITV's Emmerdale
• Patrick Woodroffe, science fiction and fantasy artist
• Dorothy Wordsworth, Diarist and sister of William Wordsworth
• Frank Worthington, footballer

robroy

I have lived in Halifax for five years! 

Some very decent ale pubs and also the Piece Hall is superb. I am seeing Noel Gallagher and Primal Scream there in a couple of months. Tom Jones and Paul Weller are also playing it. 

Friend Or Defoe

palarsehater

Quite a few craft ale spots up here, the Victoria craft beer cafe is a great spot, they have a beer from kiev with all profit going direct to the Red Cross appeal 

palarsehater

Am back up here in august and September hoping for a midweek northern charlton away games 4/5 clubs all a less than hour drive away 

Cafc43v3r

The guy who designed the 5 rise and 3 rise locks in Bingley was born in Halifax.