These 50 Great Yorkshire men and Yorkshire women were chosen by Bernard Ingham for a book – Great Yorkshire People. Whilst we don’t agree with all sections. They provide a good starting base for some of the greats of Yorkshire.
- Captain James Cook
- William Wilberforce
- John Harrison
- King Edwin
- Alcuin
- John Wycliffe
- William Bradford
- John Smeaton
- William Bateson
- Joseph Bramah
- Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
- Joseph Priestley
- Henry Briggs
- Sir George Cayley
- Sir John Cockcroft
- Sir Fred Hoyle
- Sir Almoth Edward Wright
- Amy Johnson
- Baroness Boothroyd
- Prime Minister Rockingham Asquith
- Wilson
- Sir Titus Salt
- Sir Michael Sadler
- John Curwen
- General Sir Thomas Fairfax
- St John Fisher
- Guy Fawkes
- Thomas Chippendale
- Percy Shaw
- Harry Brearley
- J Arthur Rank
- Emily Bronte
- William Congreve
- J B Priestley
- Alan Bennett
- Charles Laughton
- Andrew Marvell
- Ted Hughes
- David Hockney
- Henry Moore
- Frederick Delius
- John Barry
- Dame Janet Barker
- Sir Leonard Hutton
- Fred Trueman
- Brian Clough
- Alan Hinkes
- Barabara Harrison
- CSM Stanley Hollis VC
Other Great Yorkshireman / Women
- Beryl Burton
- Don Revie
- Geoffrey Boycott
- Hedley Verity
- Ray Illingworth
- Herbert Sutcliffe
- Dickie Bird
- Kevin Keagan
- Gordon Banks
- Michael Palin
- Dame Diana Rigg
- Michael Parkinson
- W H Auden
- Ben Kinglsey
- Alan Titchmarsh
Yorkshire Greats
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