Chapters on Daniel Adamson; William Harrison Ainsworth; Sir John Alcock; Richard Arkwright; Samuel Bamford; Isabella Banks; Sir John Barbirolli; Edward Barlow; Lady Ann Bland; John Bradford; George Bradshaw; Benjamin Brierley; John Bright; Sir Arthur Whitten Brown; Ford Maddox Brown; Frances Hodgson Burnett; John Byrom; Charles Calvert; Sir Humphrey Chetham; Richard Cobden; John Collier, otherwise known as Tim Bobbin; William Crabtree; John Dalton; John Benjamin Dancer; Thomas Deacon; John Dee; Thomas De Quincey; Francis Egerton, Third Duke of Bridgewater; Friedrich Engels; Sir William Fairbairn; John Ferriar; James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester; Elizabeth Gaskell; Walter Greenwood; Sir Charles Halle; Abel Heywood; Annie Horniman; Stanley Houghton; William Hulme; James Prescott Joule; John Knowles; Thomas La Warre; James Prince Lee, Bishop of Manchester; Lawrence Stephen Lowry; Sir Nicholas Mosley; Hugh Oldham; Robert Owen; John Owens; Christabel Pankhurst; Emmeline Pankhurst; Thomas Percival; Mark Philips; Elizabeth Raffald; Peter Mark Roget; Charles Stewart Rolls; Sir Frederick Henry Royce; Ernest Lord Rutherford; John Rylands; Charles Prestwich Scott; Ernest Darwin Simon, Lord Simon of Wythenshawe; James Stanley; William Sturgeon; Adolphe Valette; Laurence Vaux; Sir E.A. Verdon-Roe; Alfred Waterhouse; Chaim Weizmann; Charles White; Sir Joseph Whitworth; Charles Worsley; Thomas Worthington