Famous people born on the Wirral Peninsula

Wirral's most famous daughter, actress Glenda Jackson.

                                                              
ARTS. 
Shirley Ballas - ballroom dancer and Strictly Come Dancing adjudicator, was born in Wallasey in 1960. 
Shirley Hughes OBE - children's author and illustrator, was born in West Kirby in 1927.
Mark Lechey -  Turner Prize winner in 2008, was born in Birkenhead in 1964.
Ralph Steadman -  cartoonist and caricturist, was born in Wallasey in 1936.
Philip Wilson Steer OM -  impressionist and landscape artist, was born in Birkenhead in 1860. 
William Bill Tidy MBE - cartoonist, was born in Tranmere in 1933.  


BANDS FORMED ON THE WIRRAL.
The Boo Radleys, a 1990's alternative rock band was formed in Wallasey.
Engine, a 1970's boogie rock band was formed in Birkenhead.
Half Man, Half Biscuit, was a 1980's rock band formed in Birkenhead.
Orchestral Manouvers in the Dark was a famous synthpop band of the 1970's and 80's and was formed in Heswall.
The Coral, was a 1990's folk rock band formed in Hoylake.
The Rascals, is an Indie rock band formed in Hoylake in 2008.


FILM, T.V. & RADIO.
Mathew Ashton - BAFTA award winning movie designer, (Lego movie), was born in Upton. 
Alan Clarke -  T.V and film director, was born in Wallasey in 1935.
Lewis Collins -  T.V actor, was born in Bidston in 1946.  
Taron Egerton - actor, born in Birkenhead in 1989.
Richard Dickie Davis - T.V and sports presenter, was born in Wallesey in 1933. 
Anthony Tony Hall (Baron of Birkenhead) - present director general of the BBC, was born in Birkenhead in 1951.
Paul Hollywood - celebrity chef, was born in Wallesey in 1966.
Geoffrey Hughes -  actor, was born in Wallasey in 1944.
Glenda Jackson - , academy award winning actress, CBE and MP was born in Birkenhead in 1936.
Megs Jenkins -  actress, was born in Birkenhead in 1917.
Phil Liggit -  T.V sports commentator, was born in Bebington in 1943.
Nigel Lythgoe -  choreographer, T.V & film director, was born in Birkenhead in 1949.
Paul O'Grady -  comedian, was born in Birkenhead in 1955.
John Peel OBE - radio presenter, was born in Heswall in 1939. 
Jan Ravens - actress and impressionist, was born in Bebington in 1958. 
Simon Rimmer - celebrity chef & restauranteur, was born in Wallasey in 1963.
Patricia Routeledge -  comedy actress, was born in Tranmere in 1929.


MILITARY.
Emma Hamilton -  mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson, was born in Ness in 1765.
Brigadier Sir Philip Toosey CBE, DSO, TD, JP, LLD -  senior allied officer in the Thai P.O.W camp Tha Maa Kham. Toosey was portrayed by actor Alec Guiness in the film Bridge over the River Kwai.
Toosey was born in Oxton in 1904.


MUSIC.
Pete Burns -  singer / songwriter, was born in Port Sunlight in 1959.
Paul Heaton -  singer / songwriter and former member of the Housemartins and Beautiful South, was born in Bromborough in 1962.
Malcolm Holmes -  drummer in pop group Orchestral Manouvers in the Dark (OMD) was born in Birkenhead in 1960.
Stephen Hough -  concert pianist, was born in Heswall in 1961.
Miles Kane -  singer and former member of pop groups The Rascals and Last Shadow Puppet, was born in Hoylake in 1986.
George McCluskey -  songwriter and member of OMD, was born in Heswall in 1959.
Cyril Meir Scott -  classical composer, was born in Oxton in 1879.


POLITICS. 
Selwyn Lloyd - Conservative politician, Foreign Secretary 1955 - 1960, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1960 - 1962, Speaker of the House 1971 - 1976, was born in West Kirby in 1904. 
Fredrick Edwin Smith GCSI, PC, KC (First Earl & Baron of Birkenhead) - Lord Chancellor 1919 - 1922 and personal, best friend of war time prime minister Winston Churchill, was born in Birkenhead in 1872.
Edith Smith - First female police officer given full power of arrest, was born in Oxton in 1880.


SPORT.
Nigel Adkins - football player and present manager of Reading Football Club, was born in Birkenhead in 1965. 
Chris Boardman -  1992 Olympic gold medal winning cyclist, was born in Hoylake in 1968.
Ian Botham OBE -  England test cricketer, was born in Heswall in 1955. 
Paul Bracewell - football player and football manager, was born in Heswall in 1962. 
Steve Cummings - acclaimed road racing cyclist was born in Clatterbridge in 1981.
Matt Dawson -  Rugby Union scrum half and most capped English scrum half to date, was born in Birkenhead in 1972.  
Peter Davenport -  footballer and football manager, was born in Birkenhead in 1961.
William Dixie Dean -  the most prolific goal scorer in English footballing history, first man to ever wear the number 9 shirt in league football and holder of the record for most goals scored (60) in one season, was born in Birkenhead in 1907.
Charlotte Dod -  five times winner of the Wimbledon ladies singles, holder of the record for youngest (15) female ever to win Wimbledon, Olympic silver medalist for archery in 1908, twice capped for the England ladies hockey team and voted most versatile female athlete of all time by the Guiness Book of Records, was born in Bebington in 1871.
Austin Healey -   rugby player, capped 51 times for England, was born in Wallasey in 1973.
Andrew Irvine -  mountaineer, was born in Birkenhead in 1902.
Neil McKechnie -  swimmer, Olympic finalist at the Melbourne Olympic Games of 1956 and holder of every British swimming record from 100 metres to one mile (30) in 1958, was born in Wallasey in 1939.
Alan Rouse -  mountaineer and first Briton to conquer K9, was born in Wallasey in 1951. 

Wirral's most eminent sporting hero, footballer William Dixie Dean.