List of Manx people

The Manx (Manx language: Ny Manninee) are an ethnic group from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea in northern Europe. They are often described as a Celtic people on the basis of their recent Goidelic Celtic language, but their ethnic origins are mixed, including Germanic (Norse and English) and Norse-Gaelic lines.

Actors

Illiam Dhone (William Christian, 1608–1663), nationalist and politician
Robert Quayle Kermode (1812–1870), Manx-born Tasmanian politician
Dan Quayle (born 1947), Indiana Senator and Vice President of the United States, of Manx descent^[2]
Sir Miles Walker (born 1940), politician: first Chief Minister of the Isle of Man

Martin Bridson (born 1964), mathematician
Edward Forbes (1815–1854), naturalist and botany professor
John Kelly (1750–1809), lexicographer and Bible translator into Manx
Sir Frank Kermode (1919–2010), professor of English
Randolph Quirk (Lord Quirk, 1920–2017), linguistics professor and life peer

T. E. Brown (1830–1897), poet, scholar and theologian
Hall Caine (1853–1931), novelist and playwright
Cyril Clague (c. 1880–1946), poet and dramatist
Mona Douglas (1898–1987), poet and folklorist
Eliza S. Craven Green (1803–1866), poet
Jane Holland (born 1966), poet, performer and novelist brought up on Man
Sarah Holland (born 1961), writer, actress and singer
Josephine Kermode (pseudonym Cushag, 1852–1937), poet and playwright
Nigel Kneale (1922–2006), screenwriter
Charlotte Lamb (Sheila Holland née Coates, 1937–2000), romantic novelist
Sophia Morrison (1859–1917), folklorist
Esther Nelson (1810–1843), poet
Hilary Robinson (born 1972), children's author
Christopher R. Shimmin (1870–1933), playwright and politician
Thomas Shimmin (1800 – c. 1876–1879), poet and rag-gatherer
Brian Stowell (1936–2019), writer, broadcaster and translator into Manx language
George Waldron (1690 – c. 1730), topographer and poet

George Q. Cannon (1827–1901), Mormon apostle
Richard Costain (1839–1902), founder of Costain Group
Colonel Routh Goshen (Arthur Caley, 1824–1889), giant and circus performer
Nina Hunt (1932–1995), Latin American dance coach and choreographer
Abdullah Quilliam (1856–1932), Victorian Muslim brought up on Man

^ "William Garrett". Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
^ "Ancestry of Dan Quayle (B. 1947)".