# List of Freemen of the City of Manchester

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City of Manchester.

## Individuals

* Oliver Heywood: 1888.
* Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB: 1890.
* Abel Heywood: 1891.
* Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde: 1892.
* James Jardine: 1892.
* Professor Sir Adolphus Ward FBA FRHistS: 1897.
* Herbert Philips JP: 1897.
* Enriqueta Augustina Rylands: 1899.
* Robert Dukinfield Darbishire: 1899.
* Richard Copley Christie: 1899.
* Sir William Crossley Bt: 1903.
* Alderman Harry Rawson: 1903.
* Sir William Houldsworth Bt: 1905.
* Benn Wolfe Levy: 1905.
* George Milner: 1905.
* Alderman James Wilson Southern: 1906.
* Rt Hon Sir Wilfrid Laurier GCMG PC KC: 1907.
* Alfred Deakin: 1907.
* Rt Hon Sir Joseph Ward: Bt GCMG PC: 1907.
* Rt Hon Sir Leander Starr Jameson Bt KCMG CB PC: 1907.
* Rt Hon Sir Robert Bond KCMG PC: 1907.
* Rt Hon Sir Frederick Moor KCMG PC: 1907.
* Rt Hon Louis Botha: 1907.
* Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater Bt DL MP: 1914.
* Rt Hon William Morris Hughes CH KC: 1916.
* Sir Edward Holt: 1916.
* Sir Edward Donner Bt: 1916.
* General Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh Bahadur GCSI GCIE GCVO GBE KCB GCStJ: 1917.
* Sir James Meston KCSI VD: 1917.
* Rt Hon Lord Sinha KCSI PC KC: 1917.
* Rt Hon Sir Robert Borden GCMG PC KC: 1917.
* Rt Hon William Massey: 1917.
* Field Marshal Rt Hon Jan Smuts PC OM CH * DTD ED KC FRS: 1917.
* Rt Hon Lord Morris KCMG PC: 1917.
* Rt Hon David Lloyd George: 1918.
* President Woodrow Wilson: 1918.
* Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty GCB OM GCVO DSO PC: 1919.
* Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig KT GCB OM GCVO KCIE: 1919.
* Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch: 1923.
* Rt Hon William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC: 1926.
* Rt Hon Lord Bruce of Melbourne CH MC PC FRS: 1926.
* Rt Hon Gordon Coates MC* PC: 1926.
* General Rt Hon J. B. M. Hertzog KC: 1926.
* W. T. Cosgrave: 1926.
* Walter Stanley Monroe: 1926.
* Maharajadhiraja Bahadur Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab GCIE KCSI IOM: 1926.
* C. P. Scott: 1930.
* Rt Hon Earl of Derby KG GCB GCVO TD PC JP: 1934.
* Alderman Hermann Julius Goldschmidt: 1937.
* Alderman William Turner Jackson: 1937.
* Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA: 1943.
* Field Marshal Rt Hon Sir Bernard Montgomery KG GCB DSO PC DL: 1945.
* Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Tedder GCB: 1945.
* Admiral of the Fleet Rt Hon Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope KT GCB OM DSO & Two Bars: 1945.
* Field Marshal Rt Hon Sir Harold Alexander KG GCB OM GCMG CSI DSO MC CD PC (Can) PC: 1945.
* Alderman Sir William Kay: 1949.
* Rt Hon Clement Attlee KG OM CH PC FRS: 1953.
* Alderman Sir Miles Ewart Mitchell: 1954.
* Alderman Dame Mary Kingsmill Jones DBE: 1956.
* Alderman Wright Robinson: 1956
* Professor Sir John Stopford KBE FRCS FRCP FRS: 1956.
* Sir John Barbirolli CH: 1958.
* Rt Hon Lord Simon of Wythenshawe: 1959.
* Rt Hon Earl of Derby MC: 1961.
* Lady Simon of Wythenshawe: 1964.
* Sir Matthew Busby CBE KCSG: 1967.
* Alderman Thomas Francis Regan: 1973.
* Alderman Sir Richard Harper JP: 1973.
* Alderman Sir Robert Thomas: 1973.
* Alderman Dame Elizabeth Yarwood DBE DL JP: 1974.
* Alderman Mrs. Nellie Beer JP: 1974.
* Professor Sir Bernard Lovell OBE FRS: 1977.
* Alderman Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw DBE: 1984.
* The Very Reverend Alfred Jowett CBE: 1984.
* Sir Alexander Ferguson CBE: 1999.
* Anthony Wilson: 2007.
* Sir Robert Charlton CBE: 2008.
* Professor Sir Andre Geim FRS FRSC FInstP: 9 October 2013.
* Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov FRS FRSC FInstP: 9 October 2013.

## Military units

* The Manchester Regiment: 1946.
* 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron, RAuxAF: 1957.
* The King's Regiment: 1962.
* The Grenadier Guards: 1964.
* HMS Manchester, RN: 1998.
* The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 6 December 2006.
* 207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Volunteers): 2 February 2011
* 209 (The Manchester Artillery) Battery 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery: 25 November 2020.

## Honorary citizens

On 12 July 2017, American singer Ariana Grande became the first honorary citizen of Manchester, after a unanimous vote by the Manchester City Council.