Personalities
Heaton Moor was the birthplace of cricketer Charles Marriott and dramatist Ronald Gow, as well as novelist and broadcaster Joan Bakewell.
Dominic Monaghan, who plays Merry in the film trilogy of Lord of the Rings and Charlie Pace in the television show Lost was born in Germany but raised in Heaton Moor.
The Guardian journalist and feminist Mary Stott and her husband lived there after moving from Leicester.
The crime author Val McDermid and TV screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst (Shameless, Sorted, Clocking Off) currently reside there.
Children's author Philip Caveney, creator of Sebastian Darke and many other characters, also lives in Heaton Moor.
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