Editing Salford (section)

==Notable people==
{{Main|List of people from Salford}}
People from Salford are called Salfordians, the city has been the birthplace to notable people of national and international acclaim. [[Joy Division]] were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist [[Ian Curtis]], guitarist/keyboardist [[Bernard Sumner]], bassist [[Peter Hook]] and drummer [[Stephen Morris (musician)|Stephen Morris]] which later reformed as [[New Order (band)|New Order]] in wake of Curtis' death in 1980. Amongst other notable persons of historic significance with a connection to Salford are [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], one of the founders of the British [[suffragette]] movement, who lived in Salford, and the scientist [[James Prescott Joule]], who was born and raised in Salford.<ref>{{Harvnb|Purvis|2002|p=19}}.</ref> The novelist [[Walter Greenwood]] (''[[Love on the Dole]]'') and the dramatist [[Shelagh Delaney]] (''[[A Taste of Honey]]'') were both born in, and wrote about, Salford.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.wcml.org.uk/contents/creativity-and-culture/drama-and-literature/walter-greenwood-and-love-on-the-dole-/ |title=Walter Greenwood and 'Love on the Dole' |last=Anon |work=Working Class movement Library Collection |publisher=Working Class Movement Library |access-date=19 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101209014243/http://www.wcml.org.uk/contents/creativity-and-culture/drama-and-literature/walter-greenwood-and-love-on-the-dole- |archive-date=9 December 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.queens-theatre.co.uk/biographies/shelaghdelaney.htm |title=Shelagh Delaney |last=Anon |year=2009 |work=The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch: Biography |publisher=The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch |access-date=19 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228190452/http://queens-theatre.co.uk/biographies/shelaghdelaney.htm |archive-date=28 February 2009 }}</ref>
Folk singer-songwriter and communist activist [[Ewan MacColl]], one of the instigators of the 1960s folk revival in England, was born in Salford. He is known for writing such songs as "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Dirty Old Town", the latter of which is about Salford.
Salford is also the hometown of the band [[Happy Mondays]] and punk poet [[John Cooper Clarke]].
Composer Sir [[Peter Maxwell Davies]], who was appointed [[Master of the Queen's Music]] in 2004,<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page3933.asp |title=Interview with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Master of the Queen's Music |publisher=Government of the United Kingdom |access-date=5 August 2008 |date=March 2005  |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426202801/http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page3933.asp |archive-date=26 April 2007 }}</ref> was born in Salford.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20050130.shtml |title=Desert Island Discs: Peter Maxwell Davies |publisher=BBC |access-date=5 August 2008 }}</ref> Notable Salfordian sportspeople include former [[England national football team|England]] football international and [[Manchester United F.C.]] midfielder [[Paul Scholes]], who with several celebrity team mates from his Manchester United playing days bought [[Salford F.C.]]<ref>{{Citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/may/18/manchesterunited.championsleague1 |title=Simply the best |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |last=Jackson |first=Jamie |date=18 May 2008 |access-date=20 September 2008  |location=London}}</ref> 
Another notable resident of Salford is [[Eddie Colman]], the youngest of the [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] players to die in the [[Munich air disaster]] of 6 February 1958, when only 21. Born at Archie Street in November 1936, he lived in the area all his life and is buried at Weaste Cemetery. His former home was demolished in the early 1970s. [[Geoff Bent]], another Manchester United player who died at Munich, was born in Salford.
Other sporting Salfordians include Olympic Javelin Thrower [[Shelley Holroyd]], English former snooker player [[Mick Price (snooker player)|Mick Price]], who was born in the area, and Great Britain and England rugby league international and former [[Warrington Wolves]] front-rower [[Adrian Morley]] (later with the [[Salford Red Devils]].)<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.salfordonline.com/sport.php?func=viewdetails&vdetails=12438 |title=Razor Ray ready to send local hero Morley packing |publisher=salfordonline.com |last=Parkinson |first=Kate |date=9 April 2008 |access-date=17 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715232547/http://www.salfordonline.com/sport.php?func=viewdetails&vdetails=12438 |archive-date=15 July 2011 }}</ref> 
Actors [[Albert Finney]] and [[Robert Powell]] were both born and raised in Salford.<ref>{{citation | title=Albert Finney Biography | url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/2/Albert-Finney.html | work=filmreference | year=2008 | access-date=22 January 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/97/Robert-Powell.html|title=Robert Powell Biography (1944–)|last=Anon|work=filmreference|publisher=Net Industries, LLC. |access-date=22 March 2010}}</ref> 
Journalist [[Alistair Cooke]] who wrote and broadcast "Letter from America" for decades on the [[BBC]] was born in Salford.