List of Famous people born in Stockport, United Kingdom

Claire Elizabeth Foy is a British actress. She has received various awards, including; a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Hughie Lewis Fury is a British professional boxer. He challenged once for the WBO heavyweight title in 2017 at 23 years old and at national level held the British heavyweight title in 2018. As an amateur he represented England at the 2012 Youth World Championships, winning a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division and becoming the first British boxer to do so.

Aimée Lou Wood is an English actress. She is best known for her debut role as Aimee Gibbs in the Netflix original comedy-drama series Sex Education.

Yvette Paula Fielding is an English television presenter, producer and actress. She became the youngest presenter on Blue Peter aged 18, and one of her episodes was subsequently voted the "Favourite Blue Peter moment" ever. With her husband Karl Beattie, she presented the Most Haunted series on the Living channel, via their own production company, followed by Ghosthunting With..., establishing Fielding as ‘first lady of the paranormal’. She has appeared in a wide range of other programmes, from The Wright Stuff to Through the Keyhole and I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.

Michelle Elizabeth Keegan is an English actress, known for her roles as Tina McIntyre in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Sergeant Georgie Lane in the BBC drama series Our Girl. Keegan also starred as Tracy Shawcross in Ordinary Lies, Tina Moore in Tina and Bobby, and Erin Croft in Brassic.

Angela Rayner is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. She has served as Shadow First Secretary of State and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. Rayner ideologically identifies as a socialist and as part of Labour’s soft left.

Philip Walter Foden is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team.

Charles Geoffrey Hayes was an English television presenter and actor. He was best known as the presenter of Thames Television's children's show Rainbow from 1973 to 1992.

Elizabeth Clegg, is a Scottish Paralympic sprinter who has represented both Scotland and Great Britain at international events. She represented Great Britain in the T12 100m and 200m at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a silver medal in the T12 100m race. She won Gold in Rio at the 2016 Paralympic Games in 100m T11 where she broke the world record and T11 200m, beating the previous Paralympic record in the process, thus making her a double Paralympic champion.

Michael Vincent Keane is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Everton and the England national team.