Liverpool

An Irish migrant who came to Liverpool as a child, remembered as the 'Saint of the Slums'. In 1832, during a cholera epidemic, she had the only boiler in her neighbourhood and let people wash their clothes with it, saving many lives. It was Liverpool's first public washhouse, and ten years later her efforts led to the UK's first combined washhouse and public baths.

A poet born in Liverpool in 1793. Her first poems were published here in 1808, when she was only fourteen. She was regarded as the leading female poet of her day, second only to Lord Byron in sales, and she wrote the famous line 'The boy stood on the burning deck'.

A poet whose poem 'Liverpool' (1832) celebrates the city's trade around the world.

An independent MP and long-term campaigner for family allowance and women's rights, from the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool. She spent her early years in the city and later worked with her father investigating social and industrial conditions there.

The pen name of June Bhatia, known for her books about her early childhood in Liverpool during the Great Depression, including Twopence to Cross the Mersey (1974).

A novelist born in Liverpool. She won the Whitbread prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996, was nominated five times for the Booker Prize, and The Times named her one of 'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945'.

A singer, actress and TV presenter, born in the Vauxhall district of Liverpool. Before she was famous she had a part-time job in the cloakroom of the Cavern Club, best known for its link with the Beatles.