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Joe Cooper
1918–1992English professional association footballer (1918-1992)
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Photo: Mr Stephen · CC BY-SA 2.5Famous people · Reddish, Greater Manchester
6 famous people call Reddish their birthplace
Most widely known is Joe Cooper, the English professional association footballer, with articles in 6 languages. The next two names are George Haigh and Harold Faragher. In the 20th century, 5 were born, the most of any period. For its size the list is short: 2.7 for every 10,000 residents, against 5.3 in the typical Greater Manchester town.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Joe Cooper
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1915
George Haigh
Youngest
1982
Samantha Siddall
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Reddish
The three best known are all athletes.
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Through the years
When Reddish’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1910s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Reddish is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Reddish
3 more, from 1916 to 1982.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Manchester’s, with 2,047.
Manchester · 3 miJoseph John Thomson & 2,046 more
Hyde · 4 miLee Martin & 28 more
Droylsden · 3 miHoward Donald & 20 more
Cheadle · 4 miChristopher Priest & 14 more
Stockport · 2 miMargaret Burbidge & 13 more
Dukinfield · 4 miTony Brooks & 13 more
Failsworth · 5 miJim Ratcliffe & 13 more
Denton · 2 miJimmy Armfield & 10 moreQuestions about famous people from Reddish
Who is the most famous person from Reddish?
Joe Cooper (English professional association footballer (1918-1992)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come George Haigh and Harold Faragher.
How many famous people were born in Reddish?
6 people born in Reddish have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Reddish known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 6. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Reddish?
George Haigh, born in 1915. The youngest on the list was born in 1982.
Who counts as from Reddish?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Reddish’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (8)
- Joseph John Thomson: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lee Martin: Stew jones, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Howard Donald: Marc E., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Priest: Éric Messel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Burbidge: Michael Webb, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Brooks: Hotel de France, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Ratcliffe: Staff photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Armfield: Angstpristine, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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