Writers from Manchester

English writer and composer (1917–1993)

English-American playwright and author (1849–1924)

British author (1810-1865)

British author (1785-1859)

English writer

British author and journalist

British academic (1893-1950)

English novelist (1805-1882)

British-American esoteric, theosophist and writer (1880-1949)

journalist, grand historian and speechwriter from England (1928–2023)

English writer and scholar (1909-2005)

British science fiction novelist (1960–)

American novelist (1900–1985)

British poet and novelist (born 1971)

Alan Graham Carr is an English comedian, broadcaster, writer, and television personality. His breakthrough was in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Awards. In the ensuing years, Carr's career burgeoned on the Manchester comedy circuit before he became known for co-hosting the comedy variety show The Friday Night Project (2006–2009) with Justin Lee Collins. This led to the release of a short-lived entertainment show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (2008), and he went on to host the comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man (2009–2016).

British author of psychological thrillers

British novelist

British journalist

Australian novelist

American Semitic scholar and Zionist (1862–1936)

British writer (1821-1897)

British writer

British director, actor (1921–2003)

English writer

British author

English comedian, writer and actress (1963-2016)

English children's writer (1868-1947)

English screenwriter (1912-1976)

English poet and inventor of a shorthand system

English historian and traveller (1821–1879)

British novelist and women's rights activist

English author (1868–1942)

English writer, lecturer and broadcaster

English writer, journalist and scholar of Old Irish (1860–1935)

British writer and theatre manager (1835–1884)

British theatre director (born 1953)

British rabbi

British botanist (1885-1958)

British writer and historian

British historian (1916-2002)

British writer

British social theorist and reformer (1860–1925)

British writer (1884–1955)

British actor

British artist (1875-1931)

British novelist

British historian

British film critic

British writer (1940–1982)

English novelist

English writer of children's stories

British writer and editor (1894–1955)

English actress, poet, playwright, artistic director, theatrical producer

British novelist

British journalist, historian, biographer and novelist (1913-1992)

poet (1801-1874)

British dramatist (1848–1914)

American anarchist

Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop

British writer (1955–2026)