Notable People
history of notable people in and around Batley
- Isaac Binns author of "From Village to Town" and Batley Borough Accountant.
- Sarah Grace Gertude Binns active in politics and in charge of wartime Red Cross depot
- Charles Blackburn John's brother, keen sailor and successor to John's business at Köpenick
- John Blackburn merchant and manufacturer, founder of businesses at The Old Mill, Batley and in Berlin
- John William Blackburn millowner and twice Batley mayor
- Norman William Eley Batley doctor
- Brian Eley Shoddy manufacturer and Kirklees councillor
- Malcolm H Haigh local historian who has contributed much to Batley
- Arthur Walter Hanstock Batley architect and and sucessor to his father Walter's practice.
- Walter Hanstock Batley architect
- John Jubb first Mayor of Batley
- Samuel Jubb author of "History of the Shoddy Trade" 1860
- Benjamin Law inventor of Shoddy cloth
- Abraham Lister shoemaker, shopkeeper, bill-poster and dialect writer
- Joseph Pyrah believed to be the Joseph entrusted with setting up a Shoddy mill in, Berlin
- Arthur Senior Headmaster of Batley Parish Church School
- Benjamin Sheard millowner and Colonel of local militia
- George Sheard: 1807-1855 in business at Hick Lane Mill
- George Sheard: 1835-1902 millowner and owner of "The Woodlands", now the Bagshaw Museum in Batley
- George Sheard 1901-1985 another Sheard who established a substantial textile business, this in Canada
- John Sheard 1820-1875 millowner and Batley's second mayor
- Joseph Sheard 1821-1876 the inspiration behind Batley's early trams
- Michael Sheard: c1776-1837 account of Michael Sheard the elder of Batley
- Michael Sheard: 1798-1861 account of Michael Sheard the younger of Batley
- Michael Sheard: 1833-1911 architect and author of "Records of the Parish of Batley"
- Richard Arthur Sheard not in wool, but cotton spinning at Liversedge
- Titus Sheard emigrant to America where he became a millowner in Little Falls and New York State Senator
- Marmaduke Shepley whose Parish Constable's accounts for 1696 survive
- Michael Spedding: 1786-1856 Batley manufacturer and merchant
- George Stubley with brother James founded large Batley firm
- James Stubley with brother George founded large Batley firm
- Walter White Author who gave a good account of Shoddy production in Batley in 1858
- Jack Wood mill carrier who left an interesting account of his work for John Blackburn