Olympic Gold and Bronze Medal winning English field hockey player. She was capped a record 375 times for her country and was the England and Great Britain Captain for 13 years.

The Victorian novelist was born in Chelsea but settled in Ardwick and wrote some of her finest works here. YOu can visit her beautiful former home and its gardens;

two-time heavyweight world champion from Wythenshawe

Arguably the world's most famous and successful living architect, This Stockport-born man has designed the London Gherkin, New York's Hearst Tower and restored Berlin's Reichstag.

This Withington-born woman was a prominent mathematician, politician and Mayor of Manchester. She was deaf from the age of 8. She taught at Manchester Uni, raised her children, was involved in politics & helped create RNCM

Salford Lads Club will forever be associated with the band The Smiths.

Fearless in face of violence. After witnessing the shooting of a friend, this Moss-side based peace activist co-founded CARISMA charity that provides alternatives to street & gun crime.

Creating his own scientific instruments and the foundation for modern thermodynamics, This man is quite simply one of the most influential physicists of all time

Middleton-born actor and comedian has been prolific in a career now spanning more than three decades. His list of comic characters - headed up by the hapless Alan Partridge

This Chadderton-born floppy-haired former popstar has sent the popularity of physics soaring astronomically as the presenter of BBC shows like Wonders of the Universe and Stargazing Live.

this great British PM was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock in 1863, the son of a schoolmaster. He went on to lead the country through the First World War and laid the foundations for the welfare state.

Burnage-raised former roadie churned out hit after hit during the Nineties and Noughties, and along with brother Liam, created one of Britain's greatest-ever rock bands

Born and raised in Moss Side, the leader of the British suffragette movement helped shape the battle for women's votes. Along with her family she organised meetings and protests which prepared the way for the eventual spread of the vote