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Famous people from Halifax
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John Christie the Serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe lived in Halifax0
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Anne Lister0
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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
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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.2 -
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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 appeal1
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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 away0
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The guy who designed the 5 rise and 3 rise locks in Bingley was born in Halifax.0
