# List of people from Barrow-in-Furness

This is a list of notable people who were born in or have been residents of the town of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The demonym of Barrow is Barrovian.

## Entertainment
### Music

* Aim – musician, DJ and record producer
* Grian Chatten - musician, lead singer of post-punk band Fontaines D.C. was born in Barrow-in-Furness
* Glenn Cornick – ex first bass player in the rock band Jethro Tull
* Stephen Fitzpatrick – lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Her's
* Ken Lemon - country musician
* Thomas Round – retired singer and actor
* Chris While – award winning songwriter, singer and musician
* Kellie While – singer songwriter
* The Yage Letters – band based in Barrow

### Arts

* Allan Campbell McLean - writer and political activist
* James Cranke - portrait painter
* John Duffy - medical historian and writer
* A. Harry Griffin - journalist and mountaineer
* Richard Gross - sculptor
* Henry Robinson Hall - landscape painter
* Clifford Last – sculptor. son of Nella Last
* Richard Howard Penton - marine and landscape painter
* George Romney – painter and early member of the famed Romney family, was born in Dalton and raised in Ormsgill
* Constance Spry – author and florist
* Keith Tyson – artist and Turner Prize winner, was born in Ulverston and educated in Dalton and Barrow

### Television

* Blake Butler - television actor
* Steve Dixon – presenter for GB News
* Nigel Kneale – film and television scriptwriter
* Dave Myers – biker turned TV chef
* Jeffrey Perry – television actor
* Peter Purves – actor and television presenter who lived and worked in Barrow when he began his acting career
* Karen Taylor – television comedian

## Sport
### Football

* Wayne Curtis – Barrow AFC striker
* Ben Davies – Preston North End, Liverpool F.C. and Rangers F.C. defender
* Neil Doherty – Watford, Birmingham City, Northampton Town and Kidderminster Harriers winger
* Keith Eddy – Watford, Sheffield United and New York Cosmos player
* Harry Hadley – professional footballer and football manager
* Emlyn Hughes – England defender, England Captain and Liverpool captain
* Doug MacFarlane – Tottenham Hotspur forward
* Billy McAdams – Manchester City and Barrow A.F.C. striker
* Ian McDonald – midfielder for seven English teams between 1971 and 1988
* Frank McPherson – Barrow A.F.C., Manchester United and Watford F.C forward
* Vic Metcalfe – Sunderland A.F.C. centre back
* Jim Parker – Burnley and Bradford Park Avenue defender
* Jack Pelter – Huddersfield Town and Hull City midfielder
* Harry Roberts – England forward
* Gary Stevens – England and Everton defender
* Ron Suart – former English football player and manager (most notably of Chelsea)
* George Thomason - midfielder for Bolton Wanderers
* Albert Tomkin – former outside left player for Tottenham Hotspur
* David Walders – former defender for Barrow, Burnley and Oldham Athletic
* Jack Walders – former winger for Barrow, Burnley and Oldham Athletic
* Fred Walker – footballer and former manager of Huddersfield Town
* Jason Walker – current York striker; former player for Dundee, Greenock Morton and Morecambe
* Ron Staniforth – footballer for England, Sheffield Wednesday and Barrow.
* Georgia Stanway - footballer for England and Bayern Munich

### Rugby league

* Paul Crarey – former Barrow Raiders and Whitehaven coach
* Ade Gardner – Barrow Raiders and St. Helens winger
* Mat Gardner – rugby league player, who currently plays for the Huddersfield Giants Matt has now moved to Salford Giants
* Ben Harrison – Warrington Wolves player and Ireland international
* Liam Harrison – Barrow Raiders player and Ireland international
* Willie Horne – Great Britain stand-off and Barrow Raiders rugby football captain
* Phil Jackson – Canadian former professional rugby league footballer
* Jimmy Lewthwaite – rugby league winger for Barrow and Great Britain, inducted in Barrow Hall of fame alongside Willie Horn and Phil Jackson
* Jacques O'Neill - rugby league player for Castleford Tigers, also known for participating in TV series Love Island

### Motor Sport

* Adam Roynon – motorcyclist – speedway rider

### Cricket

* George Bigg – cricketer
* Stuart Horne – cricketer
* Liam Livingstone – cricketer, England white ball cricket international and captain of Lancashire County Cricket Club
* John Iberson – cricketer
* Mike Burns – cricketer, captain of Somerset County Cricket Club
* Len Wilkinson – cricketer

### Other sports

* Caroline Alexander – cross country mountain biker, road cyclist and two time Olympian
* Kenneth A. Bray – sports teacher and member of the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame
* Liam Conroy – Light-heavyweight boxer
* Bobby Taylor (Canadian football) - all-star Canadian Football League player and professional ice hockey player

## Academia

* William Eccles – physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication
* Brian Fender – academic executive
* Thomas Fresh – pioneer of environmental health and Liverpool's first public health officer
* Pat Hudson – Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cardiff
* Kenneth L. Johnson - engineering professor
* Norman H. Joy - ornithologist and coleopterist
* Winifred Pennington - limnologist and biologist
* John Strong - educationalist
* Rick Turner- archaeologist
* Kathryn Warner - historian and author

## Miscellaneous

* William Black, Baron Black - chair of various coach building companies
* Chris Blackhurst – editor of The Independent
* Elsie Blundell - Member of Parliament for Heywood and Middleton North
* Ernest Radcliffe Bond - soldier and Metropolitan Police officer
* George Glover Campbell - Australian politician
* Victor Chavez – current (2020) Chief Executive of Thales UK
* Gordon Fallows – Church of England bishop
* Maurice Flitcroft – amateur golfer and a hoaxer
* William Thomas Forshaw – British Army officer, and recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Tom Hollywood - trade unionist
* Nella Last – published wartime diarist
* Rosalind Mitchell - politician
* Stuart McMillan - Scottish politician
* Hazel Newberry - professional dancer
* Charles Oldham - Australian politician
* Brian Orrell - trade unionist
* Derek Pattinson – Secretary General of the General Synod of the Church of England
* James Ramsden - industrialist and key figure in founding of Barrow
* Nikhil Rathi – chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority
* Sir Leonard Redshaw – shipbuilder
* Dame Stella Rimington – Director-General (DG) of MI5 from 1992 to 1996
* Henry Schneider - industrialist and key figure in founding of Barrow
* Cat Smith - Member of Parliament for Lancaster and Fleetwood
* William Sykes – clergyman
* Frank Taylor - sports journalist
* John Tovey - restaurateur
* Dame Emma Walmsley – current (2024) CEO of GSK plc
* Eleanor Williams - Woman who made false claims about getting raped by an Asian "grooming gang".

## Fictional characters

* Álvaro de Campos – heteronym created by Fernando Pessoa
* Charles Parker – detective in the Lord Peter Wimsey stories by Dorothy L. Sayers