Editing Todmorden (section)

===Politics and law===
[[John Fielden]] (1784–1849), land and factory owner in Todmorden and scion of the town's Fielden family, was a Member of Parliament and national leader of the Ten Hours Campaign for factory reform. He created the 10 hour law, making it so that workers did not have to work almost the whole time they were awake. He also helped to build Centre Vale Park, Todmorden.

[[Samuel Fielden]] (1847–1922), socialist, anarchist and labour activist who was one of the eight convicted in the 1886 [[Haymarket affair]] in Chicago. He was sentenced to death along with six other defendants, but after writing to the Illinois Governor asking for clemency his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in November 1887. He spent six years in prison before being pardoned, along with two other co-defendants, in 1893. He died in Colorado in 1922 and is buried in La Veta (Pioneer) Cemetery, Huerfano County, Colorado alongside his wife and two children.

[[Wilfred Judson]], a justice of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]], was born in and spent his early youth in Todmorden.

[[Rebecca Taylor (politician)|Rebecca Taylor]], [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] for [[Yorkshire and the Humber (European Parliament constituency)|Yorkshire and the Humber]] from 8 March 2012 to 2 July 2014.