The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the City of Manchester.
Individuals Oliver Heywood: 1888. Sir Henry Morton Stanley: 1890. Abel Heywood: 1891. Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde: 1892. James Jardine: 1892. Professor Sir Adolphus Ward: 1897. Herbert Philips: 1897. Enriqueta Augustina Rylands: 1899. Robert Dukinfield Darbishire: 1899. Richard Copley Christie: 1899. Sir William Crossley: 1903. Harry Rawson: 1903. Sir William Houldsworth: 1905. Benn Wolfe Levy: 1905. George Milner: 1905. James Wilson Southern: 1906. Sir Wilfrid Laurier: 1907. Alfred Deakin: 1907. Sir Joseph Ward: 1907. Sir Leander Starr Jameson: 1907. Sir Robert Bond: 1907. Sir Frederick Moor: 1907. Louis Botha: 1907. Sir Thomas Vansittart Bowater: 1914. William Morris Hughes: 1916. Sir Edward Holt: 1916. Sir Edward Donner: 1916. General Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh Bahadur: 1917. Sir James Meston: 1917. Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha: 1917. Sir Robert Borden: 1917. William Massey: 1917. Field Marshal Jan Smuts: 1917. Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris: 1917. David Lloyd George: 1918. President Woodrow Wilson: 1918. Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty: 1919. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: 1919. Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch: 1923. William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1926. Lord Bruce of Melbourne: 1926. Gordon Coates: 1926. General J. B. M. Hertzog: 1926. W. T. Cosgrave: 1926. Walter Stanley Monroe: 1926. Maharajadhiraja Bahadur Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab: 1926. C. P. Scott: 1930. Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby: 1934. Hermann Julius Goldschmidt: 1937. William Turner Jackson: 1937. Sir Winston Churchill: 1943. Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery: 1945. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Tedder: 1945. Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope: 1945. Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis: 1945. Sir William Kay: 1949. Clement Attlee: 1953. Sir Miles Ewart Mitchell: 1954. Dame Mary Kingsmill Jones: 1956. Wright Robinson: 1956 Professor Sir John Stopford: 1956. Sir John Barbirolli: 1958. Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe: 1959. Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby: 1961. Lady Simon of Wythenshawe: 1964. Sir Matthew Busby: 1967. Thomas Francis Regan: 1973. Sir Richard Harper: 1973. Sir Robert Thomas: 1973. Dame Elizabeth Yarwood: 1974. Nellie Beer: 1974. Professor Sir Bernard Lovell: 1977. Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw: 1984. The Very Reverend Alfred Jowett: 1984. Sir Alexander Ferguson: 1999. Anthony Wilson: 2007. Sir Robert Charlton: 2008. Professor Sir Andre Geim: 9 October 2013. Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov: 9 October 2013.
Military units The Manchester Regiment: 1946. 613 (City of Manchester) Squadron, RAuxAF: 1957. The King's Regiment: 1962. The Grenadier Guards: 1964. HMS Manchester, RN: 1998. The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 6 December 2006. 207 (Manchester) Field Hospital (Volunteers): 2 February 2011
209 (The Manchester Artillery) Battery 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery: 25 November 2020.
Honorary citizens On 12 July 2017, American singer Ariana Grande became the first honorary citizen of Manchester, after a unanimous vote by the Manchester City Council.
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