Leigh
Leigh is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, 7. 7 miles southeast of Wigan and 9. 5 miles west of Manchester, on low-lying land northwest of Chat Moss. Historically part of Lancashire, Leigh was originally the centre of a large ecclesiastical parish covering six vills or townships.
People born in Leigh (First 49 people) - Page 0
Walter de Stapledon
Tom Veivers
Australian cricketer
Nick Staikos
Australian Politician
Jimmy Finn
Paddy Stapleton
Brendan Maher
Irish player
Liam Kennedy
Author
Cormac Bonnar
Liam Devaney
Henry James Lee-Warner
Bryony Frost
Jockey
William Hosking
English author
Belinda Lee
Actress
Nicky Marker
English football player
Christopher Dawson
English historian
Robert Proctor
English bibliographer
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley
Playwright
Ben Hannant
Rugby league rugby prop
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
Admiral
Edward Beaumont-Nesbitt
Denzil Fortescue, 6th Earl Fortescue
James Rennell
English geographer
Edward Fortescue Wright
English cricketer
Anna Botting
News presenter
Rupert Vansittart
Character actor
G. H. Hardy
Mathematician
Alexandra Evans
English actress
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
Poet
Jasper Nicolls
Military personnel
Jeremy Clarke
Governor
Mohamed Amin Film director
Egyptian film director
Alina Jenkins
Presenter
Scott Mills
British DJ
David Nicholls
British novelist
Mary Hoffman
British writer
David Easter
Actor
Matt Targett
Footballer
Wade Elliott
English footballer
John Ewbank
Dutch composer
Alex Bass
English football player
Manny Andruszewski
Footballer
Nic Gotham
Canadian saxophonist
Wolfgang Wild
Writer
Giz Watson
Former Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council
Anne Easter Smith
American novelist
Charles Barnes
Australian Politician
Robert Harold Nimmo
Senior officer
