#1Film, TV & Stage
Glenda Jackson
1936–2023British actress and politician (1936–2023)
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Famous people · Birkenhead, Merseyside
Birkenhead, birthplace of Glenda Jackson and 333 more famous people
The British actress and politician Glenda Jackson is written about in 86 languages. Most were born in the 20th century: 179 of them. Archie McParland, born in 2005, is the youngest, and Thomas Seaton Scott, born in 1826, the first on record. 62 were born in 1970 or later.
Born here
334
notable people
Best known
Glenda Jackson
in 86 Wikipedia languages
First
1826
Thomas Seaton Scott
Youngest
2005
Archie McParland
Most common field
Sports
174 people
What stands out about Birkenhead’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Birkenhead
Two of the three are performers.
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#3Through the years
When Birkenhead’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1920s, with 35 people born in that decade.
SportsWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawScience & MedicineMusicMilitaryFaithNotableBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Birkenhead is known for
Set against the usual town, ministers and preachers come out 1.4 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Birkenhead
331 more; the 197 best known are listed here.
Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead
born 1951British media and art executive (born 1951)
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Paul O'Grady
1955–2023British comedian, actor and television presenter (1955–2023)
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Peter Taaffe
1942–2025British Marxist (Trotskyist) political activist & journalist
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Annie Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe
1915–1997British politician (1915-1997)
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Eleanor Smith
1902–1945Noblewoman; English writer, journalist, and member of the Bright Young Things
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Alfred Sharpe
1836–1908New Zealand artist, architectural draughtsman and writer (1836-1908)
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Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas
1857–1937University professor, biologist, educationalist (1857–1937)
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Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton
1928–1992British politician (1928-1992)
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Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead
1900–1977British medical writer (1900-1977)
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Birkenhead
Who is the most famous person from Birkenhead?
Glenda Jackson (British actress and politician (1936–2023)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 86 languages. Next come Taron Egerton and Dixie Dean.
How many famous people were born in Birkenhead?
334 people born in Birkenhead have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 364 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Birkenhead known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 174 of the 334. That is 52% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Birkenhead?
Thomas Seaton Scott, born in 1826. The youngest on the list was born in 2005.
Who counts as from Birkenhead?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Birkenhead’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 (77)
- Glenda Jackson: Studio Publicity, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Taron Egerton: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dixie Dean: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barbara Steele: Trailer to "The Pit and the Pendulum" 1961, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Patricia Routledge: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Comyn Irvine: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Garner: Toffee TV, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason McAteer: Jarvin, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Hetherington: Lt. Col. Paul Fanning, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jodie Taylor: James Boyes, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Adkins: Aztec06, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- May Sinclair: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Joughin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Wootton: JaumeBG, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead: Photograph by Elliott and Fry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daphne Arden: Unknown (Asahi Shinbun), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Thompson: Helen Bromley, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Emma Dunn: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Mullen: Joost Pauwels, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerard Bucknall: No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit : Laing (Sgt), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenny Swain: Antonisse, Marcel / ANEFO, [onbekend] / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 932-1816, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Wilson Steer: George Charles Beresford, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Duff: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead: ©House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Malcolm Bruce: Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul O'Grady: Steve Punter, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Baddeley: World_athletics_final_Stuttgart_2007_1500m.jpg: Phil McElhinney derivative work: Lepax, CC BY-SA 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lewis Casson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Baxter: Unknown (Crown Studios of Wellington), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Becky Easton: BCLFC photographer Jaskirt Dhaliwal, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Graham Vick: Pete Ashton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Louis Garvin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leonard Leslie Brooke: Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Max Power: Bradford City AFC, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard H. Geoghegan: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Dooge: European Communities, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Karl McCartney: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Dawson: The Co-operative, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Douglas Forsyth: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Basil Gill: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bunny Bell: Unknown photographer; cropped using GIMP by U+003F? 22:16, 1 March 2012 (UTC), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Holmes: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Grierson: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Arnold: Jonbromwich, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johnny Campbell: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Taaffe: Andy Soh, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sandford Schultz: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eleanor Smith: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ellis Rimmer: Unknown photographer; cropped using GIMP by U+003F? 22:06, 1 March 2012 (UTC), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch: Jassta013, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Jones: Ingy The Wingy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Scotter: Mark Mitchell, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas: not stated, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Colquhoun: UCL Health Creatives, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Baker: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Bertram Cockburn: Garitan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gladys Ravenscroft: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie McGuire: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Mellor: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kirstie Levell: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lucy Jane Wood: DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mick Whitley: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Archie McParland: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bert Cooke: Unknown photographer; cropped using w:GIMP by U+003F? 15:11, 5 May 2011 (UTC), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edgar Christopher Cookson: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edith Smith: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Keane: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Jones: Catonine, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry B. Neilson: Harry B. Neilson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead: University of Liverpool Faculty of Health & Life Sciences from Liverpool, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lennon: Tony Barnard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lottie Dod: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Carragher: Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Boardman: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Peel: JP_BBC.jpg: Arno Matthias derivative work: January, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joanna Scanlan: Marcus Liversedge, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Hunt: Machmit (Machmit), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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