Leeds (gbr)

Leeds

Leeds ranks 217th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Thessaloniki, Accra, and Omaha, Nebraska. Memorable people born in Leeds include Peter O'Toole, Christopher Tolkien, and Nevill Francis Mott. Memorable people who died in Leeds include Zygmunt Bauman, John Atkinson Grimshaw, and William Astbury. Leeds has been the birth place of many actors and soccer players and the death place of many soccer players and philosophers. Leeds is located in United Kingdom.

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production centre, including of carbonated water where it was invented in the 1760s, and trading centre for the 17th and 18th centuries. Read more on Wikipedia