Category
page 1Writers from Bradford
Charlotte Brontë
British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
J. B. Priestley
English writer (1894–1984)
John Braine
British novelist (1922–1986)
Simon Beaufoy
British screenwriter and producer
Michael Hirst
English screenwriter and producer
Alastair Campbell
British director of communications and strategy, journalist, author and broadcaster
Joseph Wright
British linguist (1855–1930)
Oliver Onions
English writer (1873–1961)
Robert Swindells
British writer
James Hill
British film and television director, screenwriter and producer (1919–1994)
Derek Benfield
British actor and playwright (1926–2009)

Andrea Dunbar
British playwright
Joolz Denby
British writer
Geoffrey Barraclough
British historian (1904–1984)
Alexandra Potter
British writer

Bernard Knox
British-American classical scholar (1914–2010)
George Layton
British actor
Steph Swainston
British writer

Godfrey Lienhardt
British anthropologist (1921–1993)
Humbert Wolfe
English poet (1885–1940)
Frederic Seebohm
historian and banker (1833-1912)

Rosemary Nicols
actress
Edward Petherbridge
British actor