People of Tod
Notable people
Dicken Ashworth, (born 1946), actor
Chipps Chippendale, mountain biking journalist
John Cockcroft (1897 - 1967), who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951
Neil Cowie, Rugby League player (Wigan, Wales and Great Britain)
Keith Emerson, (born 1944), pianist, Founder / member of The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer
John Fielden (1784 - 1849), local landowner and national leader of the Ten Hours Campaign for factory reform
William Grimshaw, Vicar of Todmorden (1730s) before moving to Haworth and putting it on the map before the Brontës. Biographies by Faith Cook, Bishop J.C. Ryle & George C Cragg.
William Healey (leading politician Denis Healey's father). See Edna Healey's book (p.48) 'Part of the pattern'
John Helliwell, (born 1945), of the band Supertramp
Ursula Holden-Gill, (born 1974), TV actress (Emmerdale, Holby City, Teachers, The Bill)
William Holt, (1897 - 1977), writer, painter, political activist, journalist and traveller
Ben Horsfall, violinist and member of the Halle Orchestra
Innes Ireland, (1930 - 1993), Formula 1 racing driver (1960s and 1970s)
Wilfred Judson (1902 - 1980), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
John Kettley, (born 1952), BBC weatherman
Peter Lever (born 1940), England test cricketer
Adrian Love, (1944 - 1999), World Service, Capital Radio and Radio 2 DJ
Geoff Love, (1917 - 1991), big band leader
Jonathon Natynzyk, (born 1980), actor
Wes Paul, Liverpool singer, musician and compere/stage manager of Sounds of the Sixties Cavern Showcase.
P. J. Proby, singer who lived in Longfield Road, Todmorden. Now resides in Hebden Bridge The house is now occupied by writers Diane Whitley and Dave Simpson (writer).
John Ramsbottom, (1814 - 1897), mechanical engineer and inventor
Derek Shackleton, (born 1924), England test cricketer
Harold Shipman, (1946 - 2004), the serial killer took up his first GP's position at the Abraham Ormerod Centre in Todmorden
Grenville Turner, (born 1936), one of the pioneers of cosmochemistry
Reginald Webster, winner of Brain of Britain in 1959
Geoffrey Wilkinson, (1921 - 1996), won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1973
David Wilson, footballer who began his career at Manchester United (1980s)
