List of Famous people born in Salford, United Kingdom

Chelsea "Chelsee" Jade Healey is an English actress. She is known for playing Janeece Bryant in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road from 2006 to 2012, Honey Wright in the BBC medical drama series Casualty from 2014 until 2015 and Goldie McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2016 onwards.

Michael Antony Appleton is an English football coach and former player who is the current manager of League One club Lincoln City.

The Reverend William Webb Ellis was an English Anglican clergyman and the supposed inventor of rugby football while a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823, thus creating the "rugby" style of play. Although the story has become firmly entrenched in the sport's folklore, it is not supported by substantive evidence, and is discounted by most rugby historians as an origin myth.

Russell Watson is an English tenor who has released singles and albums of both operatic-style and pop songs. He began singing as a child, and became known after performing at a working men's club. He came to attention in 1999 when he sang "God Save the Queen" at the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, "Barcelona" at the last match of the Premiership season between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford, and a full set of songs at the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final in Barcelona between Manchester United and Bayern Munich.

Phillip Anthony Bardsley is a professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Burnley and the Scotland national team.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was a British composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music.

Timothy Allan Burgess is an English musician, singer-songwriter and record label owner, best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Charlatans.

Nicholas Alexander Blackman is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Barbados national football team. He can also play as a winger.

Mark Berry, better known as Bez, is an English percussionist, dancer, and media personality. He is best known as a member of the rock bands Happy Mondays and Black Grape.

Peter Ratcliffe, is a former British Army soldier who served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Air Service in a career of almost thirty years, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry in action during the Gulf War. He is the author of the book The Eye of the Storm (2000).