List of people from Workington
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This is a list of notable people who were born in or have been residents of Workington, a coastal town and civil parish at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England.
- Troy Donockley (born 1964), Workington born player of uilleann pipes, a member of Nightwish
- Kathleen Ferrier Order of the British Empire (1912–1953) won the prestigious Gold Cup at the 1938 Workington Musical Festival.[1]: 217
- Arthur Guirdham (1905–1992), physician, psychiatrist, novelist and author, wrote on the Cathar sect, alternative medicine, extrasensory perception and reincarnation.
- Percy Kelly (1918–1993), Workington-born artist, best known for his watercolours and charcoal paintings of the Lake District[2]
- Gordon Preston (1925–2015), mathematician, was best known for his work on semigroups.
- Alan Tarney (born 1945), songwriter, producer and bassist for The Shadows.
Business
- Paul Dale (born 1970) was the first chief technology officer appointed to the management board at ITV plc, the UK's largest commercial television network.[3][4]
Politics and diplomacy
- Dale Norman Campbell-Savours (born 1943), Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington in 1979–2001, now sits in the House of Lords. Before becoming an MP he was managing director of a watch-making business.
- Thomas Cape (1868–1947), Labour politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington in 1918–1945
- Sir Thomas Anthony Cunningham (born 1952), known as Tony Cunningham, is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington in 2001–2015.
- Sir Joseph Brian Donnelly (living), diplomat, was the son of a Workington steelworker, educated at Workington Grammar School and Oxford University.
- Sue Hayman, Baroness Hayman of Ullock (born 1962) is a British Labour politician and life peer. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington in 2015–2019.
- Mark Jenkinson, a Conservative politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington since 2019
- Fred Peart (1914–1988), was Member of Parliament for Workington from 1945 to 1976. He was made a life peer in 1976 and served as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal.