Born or raised on the island

• The Bee Gees were all born on the island. Maurice Gibb returned for a spell during the 1970s, as did Barry Gibb where he wrote the music for the film Saturday Night Fever. Robin Gibb and his wife bought property in the west of the island in January 2007.
• T.E. Brown, poet, scholar and theologian was born and lived much of his life on the island apart from his education at Oxford University and the more than thirty years he spent as a schoolmaster in England.
• Robert Henry Cain was an Oil Company Executive who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry during "Operation Market Garden" in September 1944. He was the father of Frances Catherine Cain, wife of Jeremy Clarkson (see below).
• Nigel and Bryan Kneale, brothers who were raised on the island and achieved fame as a screenwriter and sculptor respectively.
• Alex Lloyd, racing driver and winner of the 2003 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award, is from the island.
• Mark Cavendish, sprint cyclist, winner of the semi-classic the Grote Scheldeprijs.
• Sir Charles Kerruish OBE LLD CP MLC, longest serving Commonwealth Speaker ever as Speaker of the House of Keys from 1962 to 1990. Also first ever President of Tynwald and non gubernatorial Head of the Legislature and first ever Chairman of the Executive Council - again the first ever non gubernatorial Head of the Executive.
• Fletcher Christian, leader of the Mutiny on the Bounty, lived in Douglas and attended St. Bees School. His father, John Christian, was descended from a long line of Manx gentry. His great-great grandfather Illiam Dhone,^[1][2] led an uprising against English rule over the island and was executed in 1663.

The Bee Gees: Maurice, Barry and Robin The Bee Gees were a British and Australian band, originally a pop singer-songwriter combination, reborn as funk and disco. ... Maurice Ernest Gibb CBE (December 22, 1949 – January 12, 2003), was a musician and singer-songwriter. ... Barry Alan Crompton Gibb CBE (born on 1 September 1946) is a singer, songwriter and producer. ... Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 movie starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a troubled Brooklyn youth whose weekend activities are dominated by visits to a Brooklyn discotheque. ... Robin Hugh Gibb CBE (born December 22, 1949) is a singer and songwriter. ... Thomas Edward Brown OKW (May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897), British poet, scholar and divine, was born at Douglas, Isle of Man and educated at King Williams College. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Major Robert Henry Cain OKW, VC (2 January 1909 - 2 May 1978) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ... Victoria Cross medal, ribbon, and bar. ... Combatants United Kingdom United States Canada Poland Germany Commanders Bernard Montgomery Brian Horrocks Roy Urquhart James M. Gavin Maxwell Taylor Stanislaw Sosabowski Walter Model Wilhelm Bittrich Kurt Student Strength 35,000 20,000 Casualties 17,000 dead or wounded 4,000 - 8,000 dead or wounded Operation Market Garden (September... Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. ... Nigel Kneale (born Thomas Nigel Kneale on April 18, 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, UK) is a Manx television and film scriptwriter, who has worked mostly in the UK. He is best known for his creation of the character of Professor Bernard Quatermass, who has appeared in three... Bryan Kneale (born June 19, 1930[1]) is a Manx artist and sculptor, described by BBC News Online as one of the Isle of Mans best known artists. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which for the purposes of this article is man-made and selected for special recognition as art. ... Alex Stewart Lloyd (born 28 December 1984) is a British motor racing driver who is resident in the Isle of Man. ... The McLaren Autosport BRDC Award is an award set up in 1989 to reward and recognise young racing drivers from the UK.[1] As its names suggests, the award is backed by Formula One team McLaren, motorsport magazine Autosport, and the British Racing Drivers Club (BRDC). ... // Profile Mark Cavendish is from the Isle of Man (now lives in Manchester), born on 21 May 1985. ... The Grote Scheldeprijs is a Belgian semi classic cycling race which starts in the city of Antwerp and finishes in the town of Schoten. ... Look up sir in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sir Charles Kerruish was perhaps the most well known Manx Politician. ... OBE can mean several things, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, distinction of honour. ... Doctor of Laws (Latin: Legum Doctor, LL.D) is a doctorate-level academic degree in law. ... This is the name given to an official in each parish in the Isle of Man - formerly the title was Captain of the Parish Militia, but it is now only a titular honour. ... MLC may refer to: Major League Cricket Mandelbrot Locally Connected Martin Luther College Mauritius Labour Congress Maximum Likelihood Classifier Member of the Legislative Council Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne Methodist Ladies College, Perth Michigan Library Consortium Midland Lutheran College Military Load Class Minnesota Life College MLC, a major Australian financial company... The Speaker of the House of Keys is the principal officer of the Manx House of Keys, or lower house. ... The President of Tynwald is the presiding officer at the sittings of Tynwald in Douglas and is elected by the members of Tynwald from amongst their number. ... A governor is an official who heads the government of a colony, state or other sub-national state unit. ... The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Isle of Man was the Head of Government of the Isle of Man from 1961 to 1986. ... Fletcher Christian (September 25, 1764 – October 3, 1793) was a Masters Mate on board the Bounty during William Blighs fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants. ... The mutineers turning Lt Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift from HMAV Bounty, 29 April 1789. ...

Moved to the island

• Jeremy Clarkson, journalist and broadcaster, bought a lighthouse home in the south-east of the island (Dreswick Point) which he shares with his Manx-born wife Francie and their children.
• George MacDonald Fraser, the journalist, author, and screenwriter lives on the island. The title of his 2002 memoirs, Light's on at Signpost, is a reference to the Isle of Man TT races.
• Florrie Forde (1876 – 1940), known as "The Queen of Music Hall" performed at the Derby Castle ballroom stage from 1900 to 1937 (excluding the war years) and had a bungalow at Niarbyl Bay on the west coast of the island where she spent her Sundays relaxing.
• Neil Hodgson, the 2003 Superbike and World Superbike Champion lives in Ramsey on the Isle of Man.
• James Toseland, 2004 World Superbike winner has a home in Ramsey
• Justin Jackson is a professional footballer, who has played for numerous English league and non-league clubs including Bolton Wanderers, Halifax Town, Rushden & Diamonds, Doncaster Rovers and Morecambe.
• Andy Kershaw, the BBC Radio presenter has a home in Peel on the Island.
• Charlotte Lamb, prolific and bestselling romantic novelist (1937 – 2000), best-known for writing over 150 Mills & Boon novels, lived on the island from 1977 until her death in October 2000.
• Nigel Mansell, the British racing driver lived in Port Erin on the Isle of Man for many years, and was a Special Constable there throughout his Formula One career. After retirement from Formula One, he moved to Florida in the USA where he continued with a brief but successful career in Indy Car Racing. Mansell moved back to the UK soon after to buy a golf club in Devon. Although still based primarily in Devon, he has since bought another home on the Isle of Man.
• Bill Naughton, novelist and screenwriter lived for many years in Bolton before moving to the Isle of Man with his wife Erna in the late 1950s.
• John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and has lived on the island for a number of years. He is best known for his acting roles in Indiana Jones as Sallah, in Sliders as Professor Arturo and in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as Gimli.
• Ronnie Ronalde, Music Hall performer famous for his singing, whistling, yodelling and imitations of bird song lived for a number of years on the island with most of his immediate family.
• Mollie Sugden, an actress known mainly for her role as Mrs. Slocombe on the British comedy Are You Being Served? has a home on the north-west coast of the island.
• Rick Wakeman, Ex-keyboard player in rock bands Yes and Black Sabbath, lived on the Island for a number of years, and still owns property there.
• Alan Warner, multi-millionaire novelist and screenwriter, moved to the Isle of Man from the UK in 1989 and lives a reclusive and modest lifestyle at a lighthouse in the north of the island. Semi-retired, Warner has become an altruist devoting much of his time and money to charitable causes both locally and worldwide.
• David M. Wilson, former director of the British Museum currently lives in the Isle of Man.
• Sir Norman Wisdom, comedian and actor, is a long-term resident of the island.
• David Icke, a British writer and public speaker who has devoted himself since 1990 to researching "who and what is really controlling the world."