List of people from Leeds

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This is a list of people from Leeds, a city in West Yorkshire, England. This list includes people from the historic settlement, and the wider metropolitan borough, and thus may include people from Horsforth, Morley, Pudsey, Otley and Wetherby and other areas of the city. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname:


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  • Denny, Mark (2007), Ingenium: five machines that changed the world, JHU Press, ISBN 978-0-8018-8586-0