Margaret Murray was a Manx woman remembered for her knowledge of the Manx language and traditions.

Marion Shimmin (born Marion Fallows, 1879 - 29 June 1942) was a trained music teacher and social reformer from Manchester who settled in Peel after marrying Christopher R. Shimmin in 1906. Elected unopposed to the House of Keys for Peel in 1933 following her husband's death, she became the first woman member of the Manx parliament's lower chamber, serving on fisheries, health, insurance and education committees until her death, while also collecting Manx folk stories, language and music for Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh.

Sir Mark Cavendish (born 21 May 1985 in Douglas) is a former professional cyclist and one of the greatest sprinters in the sport's history, who joined his local Douglas cycling club at age nine. Riding for HTC-Highroad and other teams from 2007, he won the men's road race at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships, and across a career from 2007 to 2024 he claimed a record 35 Tour de France stage victories, surpassing Eddy Merckx's long-standing total of 34. He was knighted for his services to cycling.

Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1755 until his death in 1772, under whom the Bible was first put into Manx. He came to the see by an unusual route. The patronage lay with the Duke of Atholl, who waived his right of nomination and referred the choice to the bench of English bishops, asking them to point out a man worthy of wearing the mitre which Bishop Wilson had adorned. They recommended Dr Mark Hildesley, rector of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, unanimously. The sources do not agree on the date of his consecration: one gives 25 March 1755, another 22 April of that year. He knew what he was following. On succeeding Wilson he wrote that he was aware it is sometimes said that a person succeeds with disadvantage to an office which has been filled by a predecessor of note, and went on in that vein at some length. The translation was his work. Manx people had no part of the Bible in their own tongue. The Gospels of Mark, Luke and John and the Acts of the Apostles had been translated in Wilson's time but never published, and the Gospel of Matthew was printed in 1748. Hildesley divided the remaining task among his clergy, and while it went forward he set some of them to translate the Prayer Book as well. The Prayer Book appeared in 1765 and the Bible in 1775, three years after his death. He was at Ramsey for one of the more dramatic days of the century. When Thurot's squadron was taken in the bay in 1760, the people of the west side could hear the guns, and a Manx ballad has the Bishop with all his train among those listening. A piece of the Belle Isle's bowsprit is said to have come ashore on the Bishop's own ground. Hildesley wrote afterwards to Dr Monsey, dryly correcting the accounts then circulating: they might as well have given the bishop the honour of having preached Thurot's funeral sermon, since he did preach at Ramsey on the very day the body was supposed to have been buried there. His own family had been clergy before him. He was the son of Mark Hildesley, rector of Murston and afterwards of Witton in Huntingdonshire, and grandson of a Counsellor Mark Hildesley. His mother Avis bore sixteen children who lived to be baptised. His wife Elizabeth, born Stoker, died on 27 February 1763. The monument at Kirk Michael records his own death on 2 December 1772, in the seventeenth year of his consecration, aged seventy-four.

Mary Hendrick of Douglas, whose appeal set the Governor of the Isle of Man against the Bishop and ended in the Bishop being fined. She was the wife of John Hendrick, a licensed victualler in the town. On 29 May 1715 she was presented by the churchwardens for having committed adultery with Isaac Allgood of the same place, and on 5 June following she was legally convicted of it by the ecclesiastical court. The censure pronounced on her almost certainly included penance in all the churches. Allgood submitted to his, after some unpleasant delay. She did not: Keble, who compiled the Bishop's life from the diocesan registry, calls her altogether stubborn and rebellious, and records that people who were discontented with the Church's discipline had access to her and prevailed on her to become their instrument for setting the ecclesiastical laws aside. Her appeal was the point. She appealed from the spiritual court to the Lord of the Isle, and the Governor allowed it. Bishop Wilson held that no such appeal existed. Governor Horne wrote from Castle Rushen on 7 September 1717 defending what he had done: the liberty given to Mary Hendrick to appeal to my Lord Derby, without the Bishop being present, had not been meant to prevent the Spiritual Court from being heard, and on considering the precedents and Lord Derby's own order he was satisfied that although the Lord had prohibited appeals of that kind from the Governor, the officers and the Deemsters, he had not debarred them from himself. It ran for years and the Bishop lost. At Peeltown on 3 October 1718 the Governor called the Bishop before him to give his reasons why Lord Derby's order had not been complied with in the matter of Mary Hendrick's appeal, and the Bishop's answer was that there was no appeal in that case. J. Rowe, Clerk of the Rolls, signed the minute. A fine of ten pounds was awarded against the Bishop, and the records show it still being dealt with on 7 August 1719. The case was still running in 1721, by which time the Bishop had been to England and back, the Archdeacon Samuel Wattleworth had died on 20 December 1718 aged seventy-two and been buried in Peel Cathedral, and Lord Derby had kept that place vacant for months before inducting Robert Horrobin, Curate of Warrington, on 18 October 1719 while the Bishop was away. It was not the first collision of the two jurisdictions. Governor Horne had already imprisoned a man who acted under the Bishop's authority, holding him until a book was restored, and that led on to the sharper disputes of which this appeal was the worst.

Maurice Ernest Gibb (22 December 1949 - 12 January 2003) was a singer, multi-instrumentalist and founding member of the Bee Gees, born in Douglas as the twin brother of Robin Gibb, before the family emigrated to Manchester and later Australia. As part of the Bee Gees he contributed to one of the best-selling recording acts in popular music history, and along with his brothers he is commemorated by a statue unveiled in Douglas in 2021 near the family's birthplace.

Constance Mona Douglas (18 September 1898 - 8 October 1987) was a Manx cultural activist, folklorist, poet and journalist widely regarded as the driving force behind the 20th-century revival of Manx folk music, dance and language. Raised by her grandparents at Lezayre, she published her first poetry collection, Manx Song and Maiden Song, in 1915 at age sixteen. In the 1930s she founded Aeglagh Vannin (Youth of Mann) and later helped establish the Yn Chruinnaght inter-Celtic festival, collecting and reconstructing traditional Manx dances and tunes that are still performed today.

Laughton, a Manx songwriter of the middle of the nineteenth century. Two of his pieces were collected in the Manx Society's Mona Miscellany. The Three Legs of Man, given there as by Mr J. B. Laughton and dated 1842, begins in the days of King Orry, when a ship in full sail was the ensign that Mona unfurled to her foes, and it curses the memory of Magnus who sold the Island. The other, attributed to J. R. Laughton, was prompted by the copper riots. When the new coinage was brought in, hostility to the innovation was such that serious riots broke out at Douglas and Peel and the military had to be called in to quell them, and Laughton set the business down in verse as a full true and circumstantial account of the row so dreadful and unproper that was raised about the copper.

Edward "Ned" Maddrell (1877-1974) of Cregneash, widely regarded as the last native speaker of the Manx language. His death closed a decline the census had been measuring for seventy years. The proportion of the population returning a knowledge of Manx was 8.1 per cent in 1901, 4.8 in 1911, 1.5 in 1921 and 1 per cent in 1931. By 1951 it had dropped to 0.5 per cent, and no language question was asked in 1981. The revival that followed, helped by government funding for classes, had brought the figure back to around 2 per cent of the population by 2001. Recordings made of his speech in the mid-twentieth century remain a central resource for the study and preservation of Manx.

Thomas Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 - 29 October 2006) was a screenwriter raised on the Isle of Man (educated at Douglas High School) and declared Manxman of the Year in 1957, best known for creating the BBC science-fiction character Professor Bernard Quatermass. He won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1950 for a short-story collection before moving into television, where his Quatermass serials of the 1950s were hugely influential on British science fiction and horror. His brother, Bryan Kneale, was a noted sculptor also born in Douglas.

Sir Norman Wisdom (4 February 1915 - 4 October 2010) was an English comedian and actor, famous for his 'Norman Pitkin' film character, who settled on the Isle of Man in later life and became closely associated with the Island as an adopted Manxman. He was knighted in 2000 and was a familiar, well-loved presence at Manx public events, from Douglas town-centre openings to school sports days, until his death on the Island at age 95. A statue of Wisdom stands in Douglas in his memory.

Norris Moore, advocate, acting Secretary of the Isle of Man and afterwards Deemster. Lieutenant-Governor Shaw, forwarding his memorial to the Commissioners of Inquiry in 1791, described him as a gentleman of honour, of integrity and respectable talents, a lawyer by profession and among the first as well as the seniors of the bar, who filled his office with credit to himself and satisfaction to the public. The office was the point of the memorial. He acted as Secretary in the Island with no establishment as to the office and no salary for the labour, holding it at the pleasure of the Governor or Lieutenant-Governor for the time being and living on what the passes and licences brought in. Before 1765 the secretaryship had been blended with the other offices generally held by one man. Shaw submitted to the Commissioners whether an office in itself necessary and important ought not to be put on a footing of more respectability. Moore's own petition and memorial is dated at Castletown on 5 November 1791. He had already argued the Island's case in London. In 1790 the Keys sent him there with John Cosnahan as a deputation to oppose a Bill giving the Duke of Atholl further compensation for the loss of his sovereignty. Their petition to the Commons closed with a prayer to be heard by counsel, and Cosnahan made an able and brilliant speech at the Bar of the House. He served in the Island's own forces. He is one of the captains of the South Manx Volunteers in the list of commissioned officers for 1810, under John Taubman as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant. As High-Bailiff of Douglas he went, in August 1811, to Lieutenant Hawkes of HMS Maria to ask his intentions towards the fishermen, and was given assurances that Hawkes then broke. He was afterwards raised to the bench as Deemster.

Offa (d. 796) was King of Mercia from 757 to 796 and one of the most powerful Anglo-Saxon rulers. His connection to the Isle of Man relates to Mercian claims of overlordship in the Irish Sea region during the eighth century.

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) was Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1653 to 1658. During the English Civil War, the Isle of Man was one of the last Royalist strongholds to fall; following the surrender of the Island in 1651, Parliament appointed Thomas Fairfax as Lord of Mann, and the Island was governed by Parliamentarian appointees, including the governor James Chaloner.

P.J. Heywood was a member of the Heywood family of the Isle of Man, which included Captain Peter Heywood, the Bounty midshipman who was court-martialled and pardoned after the mutiny.

Philip Moore Callow Kermode (1855-1932) was a Manx naturalist, lawyer and pioneering archaeologist who catalogued and drew the island's Celtic and Norse crosses and was admitted to the Manx Bar in 1878 despite being largely self-taught in archaeology. A founding member of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society in 1879 (its president from 1884), he became the first Director of the Manx Museum on its opening in 1922, a post he held until his death; he was buried at Maughold, where a memorial to him was later unveiled.

Patrick Cannell, Wesleyan local preacher, who emigrated from the Isle of Man to Ohio in 1827 at the age of seventy-two. He sailed in the ship Ocean with something like a hundred and twenty-nine other Manx people, among them John Sayle, another local preacher. The year he went was the year the movement became a migration. The first Manx families reached the Cleveland district in 1826, three of them with seven children between them, and in 1827 something like seventy families, about two hundred people in all, arrived in Ohio. The settlements they made kept their Manx character for generations, and a Manx Society was founded at Cleveland in 1851 to look after immigrants from the Island who arrived with an empty pocket or in feeble health. That a man of seventy-two should have gone at all says something about what was driving them. The Island in the middle 1820s was in the middle of the distress that followed the fall in prices after 1816, and the tithe agitation under Bishop Murray fell on the poorer farmers hardest.

Patrick Henry (1736-1799) was an American revolutionary leader and orator, famous for the declaration "Give me liberty, or give me death." His connection to the Isle of Man is through his sister Anne, who married Colonel William Christian of Virginia, a descendant of the Manx Christian family of Milntown.

Paul Bridson, the Duke of Atholl's revenue officer at Douglas before the Revestment. His place in the record is a line in a salary list. When the Duke of Atholl came to answer the charge that his officers had grown rich on the Manx trade, he set out what he had actually paid them. The collections came to between five and six thousand pounds a year on a ten-year average, and the whole establishment cost him forty-nine pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence Manx. John Quayle, Collector and Comptroller, had thirty-one pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence of it. At Castletown William Clague had five pounds and Mark Nixon his assistant one. At Douglas, the first port of the Island, Paul Bridson had three pounds and Ewan Callister his assistant three. At Ramsey G. Murray had three, and at Peel William Lidderdale three. There was besides a Receiver General at forty pounds. The Duke's own comment was that when he heard of people on such salaries as these living splendidly, bringing up numerous families or dying opulent, he drew his own conclusions. The family was at the fort as well as the custom house. The Great Man's Chamber in the old battlemented tower at Douglas was called Paul Bridson's parlour about the middle of the eighteenth century, the fort being then under the command of an ancestor of the Paul Bridson who was afterwards secretary of the Manx Society. That tower was taken down in 1818.

Peter Buckley (2 August 1944 - 4 July 1969) was a Manx and British racing cyclist, born in Douglas, who won the gold medal in the road race at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, representing the Isle of Man. His promising career was cut short at 24 when he suffered fatal head injuries in a training accident near Hebden Bridge after his bicycle struck a loose dog; the annual Peter Buckley Trophy, awarded to the winner of the British junior national road race series, commemorates him.

Peter Robert Kennaugh (born 15 June 1989 in Douglas) is a Manx former professional racing cyclist who rode for Team Sky and Bora-Hansgrohe between 2010 and 2019. As part of the Great Britain team pursuit squad alongside Ed Clancy, Geraint Thomas and Steven Burke, he won gold at the 2012 London Olympics, becoming the first Manx-born Olympic champion in a century (since rower Sidney Swann in 1912). He was awarded an MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours.

Merged. This man was one of the six jurors who found William Christian, Illiam Dhône, a traitor in 1662. The whole of the record concerning him is the single line of the verdict naming that jury, so the account is now held under one item, The Jury that Convicted Illiam Dhône (1662), rather than divided among six near-empty records. See that item.

Manx clergyman, schoolmaster and participant in the eighteenth-century translation of the Scriptures into Manx. Moore served for many years as chaplain of St Matthew’s Chapel in Douglas and as master of the town’s Grammar School. An extract from his will describes him as Rector of Bride and states that he had been chaplain of St Matthew’s from 1735 to 1765, the schoolmastership being connected with that office. Among his pupils was John Kelly, later author of the Manx Grammar and one of the principal revisers of the Manx Bible. Kelly’s nineteenth-century biographer states that he attended the Douglas Grammar School under Moore and became a favourite pupil, partly through his command of the vernacular Manx language. Moore was himself closely involved in the translation work undertaken under Bishop Mark Hildesley. Later accounts name him among the revisers of the Manx Scriptures and show him working with other clergy including Matthias Curghey and James Wilks. When Curghey died in 1771, Archdeacon Mylrea wrote to Moore describing Curghey as a public loss to Mann and a particular loss to Moore in his “arduous undertaking”; Moore replied by calling him his “learned friend and fellow labourer”. Moore’s will also preserved a curious object associated with the old Nunnery near Douglas. He bequeathed to the Grammar School house a painting purporting to represent Christ, directing that it should remain in the house where it then stood.

English law officer and Lord Chancellor, whose opinions shaped the law the Isle of Man was governed against. He rose through the crown offices. As Attorney-General he argued in the Commons through the 1720s, on the South Sea Company prosecutions, on the quarantine bill against the plague then raging in the south of France, and on the pardon of an attainted peer. He was made Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and afterwards Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. He resigned the seals in November 1756 and died in March 1761. His name attaches to two things in the parliamentary record. The Clandestine Marriage Bill of 1753 was carried through the Lords under his hand, and its passage is documented in the Hardwicke Papers. And in the argument over the law of libel, the doctrine that a jury had nothing to do with whether a paper was a libel was said to have his sanction as Attorney-General, a claim disputed in the Commons in 1770. After the acquittal of the Craftsman a ballad went about at his expense, to the effect that Sir Philip's innuendos would serve him no longer in verse or in prose, twelve honest men having decided the cause. A contemporary life of Wilkes calls him the greatest perhaps of all English lawyers and a politician of infinite sagacity, and the firm ally of the Duke of Newcastle.

Pope Calixtus III (1378-1458), born Alfonso de Borgia, held the papacy from 1455 to 1458. His connection to the Isle of Man relates to the Diocese of Sodor and Man and papal involvement in the appointment and jurisdiction of the Island's bishops during the medieval period.