# List of people from Newcastle-under-Lyme

This is a list of notable people who were born in or have been residents of the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the county of Staffordshire, England.

## Earlier centuries

* Humphrey Wollrich (1633–1707), Quaker writer.
* Philip Astley (1742–1814), equestrian, inventor and father of the modern circus
* Silvester Harding (1745–1809), artist and publisher, who joined a company of strolling actors at age 14
* John James Blunt (1794–1855), Anglican priest who wrote studies of the early Church.

## 19th century

* Henry Moseley (1801–1872), churchman, mathematician, and scientist.
* Joseph Mayer (1803–1886), goldsmith, antiquary and collector.
* Emma Darwin (née Wedgwood) (1808–1896), granddaughter of Josiah Wedgwood and wife of Charles Darwin
* Hungerford Crewe, 3rd Baron Crewe (1812–1894), landowner and peer, inherited the Jacobean Crewe Hall and failed to prevent the construction of a Silverdale and Madeley Railway Company line.
* Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), physicist, inventor and writer
* Arthur Howard Heath (1856–1930), industrialist, cricketer, Rugby Union international and local Conservative MP
* Sir Joseph Cook (1860 in Silverdale – 1947), worked in the local coalmines before emigrating in 1885; Prime Minister of Australia, 1913–1914
* Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia, (1861–1929), lived in Keele Hall in 1900–1909.
* Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), writer
* Ada Nield Chew (1870–1945), suffragist
* Alfred Herbert Richardson (1874–1951), policeman and Chief Constable of Newcastle-under-Lyme 1901-1903
* Oliver William Foster Lodge (1878–1955), poet and author born in Newcastle
* Fanny Deakin (1883–1968), local politician born in Silverdale, who campaigned for child nourishment and maternity care.
* Vera Brittain (1893–1970), author, reformer and pacifist, and mother of Shirley Williams
* Reginald Mitchell (1895–1937), designer of the Spitfire fighter plane

## 20th century

* E. S. Turner (1909–2006), journalist and author, went to school in the town.
* Fred Kite (1921–1993), only Second World War British soldier to receive the Military Medal three times
* Freddie Garrity (1936–2006), singer, lived in the town near the end of his life.
* Jackie Trent (1940–2015), singer, songwriter and actress
* Neil Baldwin (born 1946), clown, Stoke City kit-man and honorary graduate of Keele University
* Kevin John Dunn (1950–2008), twelfth Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
* Professor Alan Sinclair (born 1952), clinical scientist and diabetes specialist
* Dylan Waldron (born 1953), artist in traditional techniques such as painting in egg tempera and silverpoint
* Janet Bloomfield (1953–2007), peace and disarmament campaigner
* Fran Unsworth (born 1957), journalist, head of BBC News since January 2018
* Emma Amos (born 1964), actress
* Andrew Van Buren (living), illusionist showman, co-founder of the Philip Astley Project
* Hugh Dancy, (born 1975), actor
* Charlotte Salt, (born 1985), actress as Sam Nicholls in Casualty (TV series)
* Dan Croll, (born 1990) singer and songwriter
* Leon Cooke (born 1991), actor, singer and dancer
* Wes Nelson (born 1998), singer and reality television star
* Daniel Jones (born 1973), former professional ballet dancer with English National Ballet, choreographer, producer, documentary maker, and now doing wonders for the arts in Newcastle-under-Lyme
* Norman Berrisford (born 1928), architectural designer

## Notable sports people

* Dick Ray (1876–1952) professional footballer and manager with Port Vale and Manchester City
* Frederick Bailey (1919–1985), left-handed English cricketer
* Don Ratcliffe (1934–2014), footballer with Stoke City
* Mike Pejic (born 1950), footballer with Stoke City and Everton
* Ian Moores (1954–1998) footballer with Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur
* Robbie Earle (born 1965), footballer with Port Vale and Wimbledon
* Graham Shaw (born 1967) footballer with Stoke City
* Dominic Cork, (born 1971) cricketer
* Simon Wakefield (born 1974), professional golfer
* Lizzie Neave (born 1987), slalom canoeist in women's kayak, competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics
* Oliver Sadler (born 1987), first-class cricketer
* Peter Wilshaw (born 1987), cricketer
* Eddie Hall (born 1988), professional strongman
* Danielle Wyatt (born 1991), professional England cricketer
* Curtis Nelson (born 1993), footballer for Plymouth Argyle F.C.
* Aaron Ramsdale (born 1998), footballer

## Notable politicians

* Sir John Merrick (1584–1659), politician and Newcastle-under-Lyme MP
* Robert Needham, 2nd Viscount Kilmorey (1587/88–1653), supporter of Charles I; MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme in the Addled Parliament in 1614.
* Sir Richard Leveson (1598–1661), MP for Newcastle in the Long Parliament
* Samuel Terrick (1602–1675), local politician. In 1658 he went bankrupt for £20,000.
* Major-General Thomas Harrison (1606–1660) sided with Parliament in the English Civil War. In 1649 he signed the death warrant of Charles I and in 1660, after the Restoration, was found guilty of regicide and hanged, drawn and quartered.
* Sir Richard Lloyd (1606–1676), English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1628 and 1676. In April 1640, Lloyd was MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme in the Short Parliament.
* Sir Alfred Seale Haslam (1844–1927) engineer, three times Mayor of Newcastle, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1900–1906
* Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood (1872–1943), Josiah Wedgwood IV, great-great-grandson of Josiah Wedgwood and Liberal MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1906-1919, then its Labour MP 1919-1942
* Sir Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), founder of British Union of Fascists lived in Apedale Hall in early 1900s
* John David Mack (c. 1899–1957), Labour Party MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1942–1951.
* Stephen Swingler (1915–1969) Labour MP for Stafford, 1945–1950, and for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1951–1969
* John Golding (1931–1999), Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1969-1986
* Llin Golding, Baroness Golding (born 1933), Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1986-2001
* Jeremy Lefroy (born 1959) Westlands councillor, MP for Stafford since 2010
* Paul Farrelly (born 1962), MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme and journalist
* Karen Bradley (born 1970), MP for Staffordshire Moorlands and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
* Aaron Bell (born 1980) politician, MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme since 2019
* Gareth Snell (born 1986), graduate of Keele University 2008, leader of the Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council 2012–2014 and MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central since 2017