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This is a list of the famous and notable people from Preston in Lancashire, England. For other Prestons see Preston (disambiguation).
People from Preston
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- Richard Arkwright (1732–1792) — inventor of the water frame that kick-started the textile industry in the late 18th century
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- Professor Sir George Grenfell Baines, OBE (1908–2003) — Architect, pioneer of multi-disciplinary design and founder of the Building Design Partnership
- Kenny Baker (born 1934) — an actor who plays R2D2 in Star Wars.
- Roy Barraclough (born 1935) — Actor from Coronation Street
- Stephen Barton (born 1982) — Noted film composer and protege of Harry Gregson-Williams
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- Eddie Calvert (1922–1978) — Trumpeter, "The Man With the Golden Horn"
- Dave D Chambers (born 1969) — Original Drummer with indie Rock band Cornershop and DJ. Featured in NME book of Quotes in the 1990's
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- Gregory Doran (born 1958) — Associate Director, Royal Shakespeare Company.
- John Doyle (born 1979) Flugel Horn for the world Famous Black Dyke band, and widely regarded as the finest Flugel Horn Player in the world.
- Aaron Dore (born 1991) Proud Professional Signature & LP Designer, Tutorial & PSD Packs Creator Known Web-Wide.
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- Paul Englishby — film and theater composer
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- Sir Tom Finney (born 1922) — Footballer
- Andrew Flintoff (born 1977) — cricketer
- Jim Fry (born 1979) — Botanist and social commentator
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- Zara Glover (born 1982) — International Ten-pin Bowler
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- James Hebblethwaite (1857–1921) — poet
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- John Inman (1935–2007) — Comedy actor and drag artiste
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- Andy Jones Radican parkour street jumper
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- Ian Kirkham — saxophone player, Simply Red.
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- Mark Lawrenson (born 1957) — Footballer turned football pundit
- Joseph Livesey (1794–1884) — Social reformer and pioneer of the Temperance movement in the 19th century
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- Ian McCulloch (born 1971) — snooker player currently in the top 16 of the world rankings
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- Marie Niven (b.1964) famous mainly for being a famous maths teacher at Hutton Grammar School.
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- Aaron O'Brien (of Mill Lane) - leader of Preston's emo revolution.
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- Nick Park (born 1958) — animator famous mainly for the Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run claymation animation classics.
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- Edith Rigby (1872–1948) — Suffragette
- Samuel Ryder (1858–1936) — founder of the Ryder Cup Golf Competition
- Michael Ryan (Economist)
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- Dr Alison Shaw, Ph.D. (born 1975) — publisher of "A general approach for heterologous membrane protein expression in Escherichia coli: the uncoupling protein, UCP1, as an example", aka "the hedgehog protein one" ([1])
- Chris Scott (born 1991) Keyboard player with Odd Socks, Lancaster based fourth wave Ska band.
- Elliot Butler Smith - preston key to the city holder after saving a dog from a pond
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- A.J.P. Taylor (1906–1990) — historian.
- Jessica Taylor (born 1980) singer with Liberty X
- Francis Thompson (1859–1907) — poet
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- John Wall (1620–1679) — Martyr and Saint
- Louisa Walker (1993-Present) EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW ORANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Stanley Yates (born 1958) — classical guitarist and music scholar