Salford's
Famous Women
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* Dawn Peters
….. actress who has appeared in the Granada TV series The Mating Game, Shadow Squad and The Verdict is Yours
* Doris Collier
….. in 2003, on the day of her 84th birthday, she received the Shining Star award, a national charity award, for her work with the Multiple Sclerosis Society. She is a founding member of the Salford branch where she has given more than thirty years of voluntary service
* Doris G Edelston
….. in 1908 she passed the Cambridge Senior Examination with distinction in English history and was placed fourth in order of merit for the whole of England on that subject. She was the daughter of the Vicar of St. Paul's in Pendleton
* Dorothy Shirley
….. champion runner and medal winner for Salford Harriers