From the scientific discoveries of DNA and carbonated water, founding of beloved British businesses and paving the way for modern-day feminism - key Leeds figures have played a part in it all. Here are 10 inspirational men and women who have changed the world for the better.
7. Dr Edith Pechey
Edith Pechey was one of the first women doctors in the Uniteed Kingdom. She was one of the 'Edinburgh Seven' - the first female undergraduate medical students at any British university. After graduation, she practiced medicine in Leeds for six years. She was an educator in women's health and represented Leeds suffragists at the International Women's Suffrage Alliance congress in Copenhagen in 1906. Photo: The Thoresby Society
8. Florence Bell
Florence Bell was a scientist who laid the foundations that lead to the discovery of DNA. She lived in Beckett Park Drive in headingley and worked as a research assistant to William Astbury at the University of Leeds. Photo: University of Leeds Library. Chris Sawyer.
9. Leonora Cohen
British suffragette Leonara Cohen was born in Hunslet on 1873. She joined the Leeds Women's Social and Political Union and was one of women tasked with protecting Emmeline Pankhurst. She was known as the "Tower Suffragette" after smashing a display case in the Tower of London 1913. She died in 1978 at age 105. Photo: Steve Riding
10. Charles Thackray
Charles Thackray was a manufacturer of medical instruments and the founder of the modern hip replacement surgery. He and his wife lived in Roundhay and in 1902 he opened a chemist shop in Great George Street. Charles Thackray died suddenly at the age of 57 and his body was recovered from Waterloo Lake. Photo: The Thackray Museum. James Hardisty