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Famous People Connected to the Isle of Man
Image right - Barry Gibb born 1 Sep 1946, Douglas
Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown!
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- Lillian Beckwith alias Lilian Comber (1916 - 2004), Author, lived on the Isle of Man from 1962.
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- Mark Simon Cavendish, MBE (born 21 May 1985) - Manx professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Omega Pharma-Quick Step.
- Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was master's mate on board HMS Bounty. Christian was born on 25 September 1764 in Cumberland, son of Charles Christian, an attorney-at-law descended from Manx gentry, and his wife Ann Dixon.
- John McCrystyn, Justiciarius Insulae and Deemster (born circa 1368)
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- Illiam Dhône or Illiam Dhôan (14 April 1608 – 2 January 1663) was a famous Manx nationalist and politician.
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- Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854)[1] was a Manx naturalist.
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- Barry Alan Crompton Gibb b. 1.9.1946 Douglas - member of the Bee Gees
- Maurice Ernest Gibb (1949 Douglas - 2003) member of the Bee Gees
- Robin Hugh Gibb (1949 Douglas - 2012) member of the Bee Gees
- Zoe Gillings (born 14 June 1985 in Isle of Man) is a British snowboarder.
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- Harry Manx is a musician who blends blues, folk music, and Hindustani classical music. Born Douglas, Isle of Man 1955
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- James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States - of Manx ancestry
- Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was an English actor and director. Quayle was born in Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire, to a Manx family.
- William Henry Quilliam (10 April 1856 Liverpool – 23 April 1932 London), who changed his name to Abdullah Quilliam and later Henri Marcel Leon or Haroun Mustapha Leon, was a 19th-century convert from Christianity to Islam, noted for founding England's first mosque and Islamic centre. William Quilliam was born in Liverpool to a wealthy Manx family in 1856. His father, Robert Quilliam, was a watch manufacturer. See also http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/people/law/whqllm.htm where his ancestry is discussed.
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- James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and his father & mother were given feudal rights over the Isle of Man by patent of James I of England
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