List of people from Leeds is a list of notable people from the City of Leeds 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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ignored (help)Michael Middleton, her (Kate Middleton's) father, spent his first two years (until the age of two) living at Moortown in Leeds
The family home was (in) the aptly named King Lane in an affluent suburb of Leeds (Moortown).
Adrian Paul Morley is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop or second-row forward. With a reputation as a tough, uncompromising competitor, Morley was the first British player to become a Grand Final winner in both the National Rugby League and Super League.
Kevin Sinfield is an English rugby union coach, currently the skills and kicking coach for the England national team. He is a former professional rugby league player for Leeds Rhinos, England and Great Britain. His usual position was loose forward, although he played stand-off and hooker on occasion.
Kylie Leuluai is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer. A New Zealand Māori and Samoa international representative prop, he most notably played at club level for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League. He also played club football in Australia for National Rugby League clubs; the Balmain Tigers, Wests Tigers, Sydney Roosters, Parramatta Eels, and the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles.
Keith Andrew Senior is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Sheffield Eagles and the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League. A Great Britain and England international representative centre, he is considered one of the greatest players of the Super League era.
Karl Pratt is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England and Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers, Leeds Rhinos, and Bradford Bulls. Pratt usually played on the wing, but also played at stand-off, scrum-half, and hooker during his career.
Robert Geoffrey Burrow was an English professional rugby league footballer who played as a scrum-half or hooker. Burrow spent his entire professional career with the Leeds Rhinos, making nearly 500 appearances as well as representing Great Britain, England, and Yorkshire.
Garreth Carvell is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England and Wales. Then, he played his entire professional club career in England, for Stanningley ARLFC, in the Super League for the Warrington Wolves, the Leeds Rhinos, Gateshead Thunder (loan), Hull FC, and the Castleford Tigers, and in the Championship for Featherstone Rovers, as a prop or second-row.
Jamie Daniel Peter Jones-Buchanan is a British rugby league coach and former professional player. He was briefly the interim head coach for Leeds in the Super League XXVII season.
Carl Ablett is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a second-row, loose forward or centre for the Leeds Rhinos in the Betfred Super League and England at international level.
Ben Westwood is an English former rugby league footballer, who played as a second-row or loose forward in the Betfred Super League. He played for England at international level, and also represented England Knights and Yorkshire.
Ewan Dowes is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Leeds Rhinos and Hull FC in the Super League. Dowes' usual position was prop. He was a member of the Hull team that won the 2005 Challenge Cup. Dowes was sport's first owner of a dual rugby code contract.
Lee Smith is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a goal-kicking centre, wing or fullback for the Leeds Rhinos in Betfred Super League.
Donald Robinson was an English World Cup winning professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, England, Yorkshire and Rugby League XIII, and at club level for St Joseph's School, Airedale Youth Club, Fryston Colliery, Kippax Juniors, Newmarket Colliery, Wakefield Trinity (captain), Leeds and Doncaster, as a centre, prop, second-row or loose forward, and coached at Doncaster and Bramley (late-1970s).
The 1935–36 Rugby Football League season was the 41st season of rugby league football. Thirty teams competed in a single league Championship. The Challenge Cup was contested for the 36th time and the second European Championship took place.
Wayne Allen Reittie is a Jamaica international rugby league footballer who last played as a winger for Hunslet in the RFL League 1.
Michael "Mike" Coady is an English former professional rugby union and rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for England Students, and at club level for Loughborough Students RUFC and Otley R.U.F.C., and club level rugby league (RL) in the Rugby League Conference for the Bristol Sonics and Leicester Phoenix, in the Championship 1 for Doncaster, in the Super League for Leeds Rhinos, and in the Championship for Featherstone Rovers (loan), as a wing or centre.
Del Hodgkinson was an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s. He played at club level for Leeds, as a wing.
Ashton Golding is a Jamaica international rugby league footballer who plays as a fullback and hooker for the Huddersfield Giants in the Betfred Super League.
Joshua Jordan-Roberts is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row and loose forward for the Hunslet RLFC in RFL League 1.
Courtney Winfield-Hill is an Australian-born sportswoman who formerly played rugby league for England and Leeds Rhinos. Originally Winfield-Hill played cricket as a pace bowler for Queensland Fire and Brisbane Heat, before moving sports and countries to play rugby league.