List of Famous people born in Salford, United Kingdom

Stephen Lord is an English actor probably best known for playing Jase Dyer in the BBC soap opera EastEnders between 2007 and 2008 and Dominic Meak in the Channel 4 comedy drama series, Shameless, between 2012 and 2013.

Hazel Anne Blears is a former British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Salford and Eccles from 2010 to 2015. Prior to the creation of the Salford and Eccles constituency, she was the MP for Salford from 1997.

Alistair Cooke was a British-born American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and America: A Personal History of the United States, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He was the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.

Steve Evets is an English actor and musician, who found fame in the leading role in the 2009 film Looking for Eric.

Matthew Greenhalgh is an English screenwriter from Manchester, England. He is best known for writing the screenplay to the film Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, which earned him a BAFTA Award nomination Best Adapted Screenplay.

William Worrall Mayo was a British-American medical doctor and chemist. He is best known for establishing the private medical practice that later evolved into the Mayo Clinic. He was a descendant of a famous English chemist, John Mayow. His sons, William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo, established a joint medical practice in Rochester in the U.S. state of Minnesota in the 1880s.