List of people from Barrow-in-Furness

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)

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

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

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  Peter Purves

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8. Bremner, Charles (2006-11-02). "Nigel Kneale". London: The Times. p. 71. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
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14. http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunning/keithedd.htm
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16. "Emlyn Hughes Obituary". Telegraph.co.uk (London: The Daily Telegraph). 2004-11-11. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
17. http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/player/ianmcdonald.html
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23. Burke, David (2006-03-11). "A Welcome MAT For My Mate ADE; HUDDERSFIELD GIANTS V ST HELENS, TOMORROW, KICK-OFF 3PM". Daily Mirror (Mirror Group Newspapers). p. 57. Mat, brought up in Barrow with Ade, said:"It's always been a dream of mine to play against my elder brother and this could be the time it becomes a reality. There's also a big chance we could be meeting head-on on the wing and that would be fantastic. I was pleased with my performance at Wakefield, I just hope Jon Sharp was pleased too - that's obviously the key to me playing against Saints."
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