List of Freemen of the City of Manchester

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City of Manchester.

Individuals

• Oliver Heywood: 1888.
• Sir Henry Morton Stanley: 1890.
• Abel Heywood: 1891.
• Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde: 1892.
• James Jardine: 1892.
• Professor Sir Adolphus Ward: 1897.
• Herbert Philips: 1897.
• Enriqueta Augustina Rylands: 1899.
• Robert Dukinfield Darbishire: 1899.
• Richard Copley Christie: 1899.
• Sir William Crossley: 1903.
• Harry Rawson: 1903.
• Sir William Houldsworth: 1905.
• Benn Wolfe Levy: 1905.
• George Milner: 1905.
• James Wilson Southern: 1906.
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier: 1907.
• Alfred Deakin: 1907.
• Sir Joseph Ward: 1907.
• Sir Leander Starr Jameson: 1907.
• Sir Robert Bond: 1907.
• Sir Frederick Moor: 1907.
• Louis Botha: 1907.
• Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater: 1914.
• William Morris Hughes: 1916.
• Sir Edward Holt: 1916.
• Sir Edward Donner: 1916.
• General Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh Bahadur: 1917.
• Sir James Meston: 1917.
• Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha: 1917.
• Sir Robert Borden: 1917.
• William Massey: 1917.
• Field Marshal Jan Smuts: 1917.
• Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris: 1917.
• David Lloyd George: 1918.
• President Woodrow Wilson: 1918.
• Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty: 1919.
• Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: 1919.
• Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch: 1923.
• William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1926.
• Lord Bruce of Melbourne: 1926.
• Gordon Coates: 1926.
• General J. B. M. Hertzog: 1926.
• W. T. Cosgrave: 1926.
• Walter Stanley Monroe: 1926.
• Maharajadhiraja Bahadur Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab: 1926.
• C. P. Scott: 1930.
• Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby: 1934.
• Hermann Julius Goldschmidt: 1937.
• William Turner Jackson: 1937.
• Sir Winston Churchill: 1943.
• Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery: 1945.
• Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Tedder: 1945.
• Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope: 1945.
• Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis: 1945.
• Sir William Kay: 1949.
• Clement Attlee: 1953.
• Sir Miles Ewart Mitchell: 1954.
• Dame Mary Kingsmill Jones: 1956.
• Wright Robinson: 1956
• Professor Sir John Stopford: 1956.
• Sir John Barbirolli: 1958.
• Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe: 1959.
• Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby: 1961.
• Lady Simon of Wythenshawe: 1964.
• Sir Matthew Busby: 1967.
• Thomas Francis Regan: 1973.
• Sir Richard Harper: 1973.
• Sir Robert Thomas: 1973.
• Dame Elizabeth Yarwood: 1974.
• Nellie Beer: 1974.
• Professor Sir Bernard Lovell: 1977.
• Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw: 1984.
• The Very Reverend Alfred Jowett: 1984.
• Sir Alexander Ferguson: 1999.
• Anthony Wilson: 2007.
• Sir Robert Charlton: 2008.
• Professor Sir Andre Geim: 9 October 2013.
• Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov: 9 October 2013.

Military units

• The Manchester Regiment: 1946.
• 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron, RAuxAF: 1957.
• The King's Regiment: 1962.
• The Grenadier Guards: 1964.
• HMS Manchester, RN: 1998.
• The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 6 December 2006.
• 207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Volunteers): 2 February 2011

• 209 (The Manchester Artillery) Battery 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery: 25 November 2020.

Honorary citizens

On 12 July 2017, American singer Ariana Grande became the first honorary citizen of Manchester, after a unanimous vote by the Manchester City Council.

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