Manchester has long been a hub of cultural and industrial development in the country. These developments have been possible only due to the contribution of many people from different walks of life. There are innumerable famous people from Manchester who have contributed in various fields and made the city popular.
The people of Manchester are known as Mancunians or Mancs. In the field of science and engineering many people from Manchester have contributed and earned a big name for themselves. The Nobel Prize winner J.J. Thomson studied and researched from the Victoria University of Manchester. Hans Bethe, Sir Arthur Eddington, Henry Moseley, Patrick M. Blackett, George de Hevesy, Sir John Lennard-Jones are some of the famous physicists who studied from Manchester.
Manchester has given some great writers to the world like Anthony Burgess, Elizabeth Gaskell, Jeff Noon, Thomas de Quincey, Walter
Greenwood and many more. The writer of the world famous book Harry
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Potter, J.K. Rowling stayed in Manchester for many years and said to have the conception of the book while traveling from Manchester.
Football is synonymous with Manchester. A number of footballers like Paul Hall, Alf Ainsworth, Brian Kidd, Paul Scholes, Nobby Stiles are from Manchester.
Manchester is also related to the field of politics and many eminent politicians like David Lloyd George, Emmeline Pankhurst, Arthur Balfour, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw and David Joseph Henry are associated with this city. Harold Joseph Laski was an English political theorist, lecturer, economist, and author, who was born in Manchester and was the chairman of the Labour Party from 1945-1946.
The famous people of Manchester are related to the city in various ways either they were born in the city or they acquired education in the city or they spent a major part of their life here or finally settled here.
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