Editing Wakefield (section)

==Notable people==
{{See also |List of people from Wakefield}}
* [[Joseph Aspdin]] inventor of [[Portland Cement]]<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/joseph-aspdins-patent-of-portland-cement-23rd-october/| title = Joseph Aspdin’s patent of Portland Cement, 23rd October [1824]| date = 1 October 2024| publisher =  Wakefield Historical Society| access-date = 1 March 2025}}</ref>
* Novelist [[George Gissing]] was born in Wakefield in 1857; his childhood home in Thompson's Yard is maintained by The Gissing Trust.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wakefieldhistoricalsoc.org.uk/The%20Gissing%20Trust.htm |title=The Gissing Trust |access-date=2 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006085006/http://www.wakefieldhistoricalsoc.org.uk/The%20Gissing%20Trust.htm |archive-date=6 October 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Sculptor [[Barbara Hepworth]] was born in Wakefield in 1903.<ref name="BH">{{cite web |title=Barbara Hepworth |url=http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/biography/ |publisher=barbarahepworth.org.uk |access-date=25 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091124052506/http://www.barbarahepworth.org.uk/biography/ |archive-date=24 November 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> The art gallery The Hepworth Wakefield is named after her which features her work, alongside that of other local artists such as [[Henry Moore]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hepworthwakefield.org/our-story/our-history/ |title=The History of The Hepworth Wakefield |last=The Hepworth |first=Wakefield |website=The Hepworth Wakefield |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190811205302/https://hepworthwakefield.org/our-story/our-history/ |archive-date=11 August 2019 |url-status=live |access-date=11 August 2019}}</ref>
* Dame [[Marjorie Williamson]] was born in Wakefield in 1913. She was an academic, educator, physicist and university administrator.
* [[David Storey]], born in Wakefield in 1933, was a [[novelist]] and playwright, whose 1960 ''[[This Sporting Life]]'', was made into a 1963 film which was shot largely on location in the city.<ref name="DS">{{cite web |title=David Storey |url=http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth222 |publisher=contemporarywriters.com |access-date=25 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215133715/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth222 |archive-date=15 December 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Anne Treisman]] (née Taylor, 1935–2018), a [[psychologist]] who specialised in [[cognitive psychology]], was born in Wakefield.<ref name="obit nyt">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/obituaries/anne-treisman-who-studied-how-we-perceive-dies-at-82.html|title=Anne Treisman, Who Studied How We Perceive, Dies at 82|work=The New York Times|date=13 February 2018|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|access-date=14 February 2018|archive-date=6 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106113810/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/obituaries/anne-treisman-who-studied-how-we-perceive-dies-at-82.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Former Archbishop of York, [[David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes]], was born in 1940 in Thornes.<ref name="DH">{{cite web|title=David Hope |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20051211.shtml |publisher=BBC |access-date=25 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023143840/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20051211.shtml |archive-date=23 October 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Jane McDonald]], singer, was born in Wakefield in 1963.
* The [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] politician [[John Leech (politician)|John Leech]] was born in Wakefield in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/1554/www.northwestlibdems.org.uk/ |title=John Leech for Didsbury West in the Manchester local election |website=Who Can I Vote For? by Democracy Club |access-date=14 June 2019 |archive-date=23 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523114824/https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/1554/www.northwestlibdems.org.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He was Member of Parliament for [[Manchester Withington (UK Parliament constituency)|Manchester Withington]] from 2005 to 2015.