#1Famous people · Alsager, Cheshire
Athletes stand out among the 8 famous people born in Alsager
Lee Bell, the British footballer, is the most widely known, written about in 9 languages. Births span 1877 to 2001, from Arthur Lockett to William Forrester. The largest group, 5, was born since 1970. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 5.2, close to the 5.4 of the typical Cheshire town.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Lee Bell
in 9 Wikipedia languages
First
1877
Arthur Lockett
Youngest
2001
William Forrester
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Alsager’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Alsager’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Alsager
The three best known are all athletes.
#1
#2Sports
Shaun Miller
born 1987English association football player (born 1987)
7 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
RC#3
Everyone
Everyone else born in Alsager
5 more, from 1877 to 2001.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Sandbach counts 13 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Sandbach · 4 miI. A. Richards & 12 more
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Audley · 3 miFred Buck & 4 moreGCScholar Green · 3 miGeorge Clawley & 1 moreWBHaslington · 4 miWilliam Broome & 1 moreBJHalmer End and Alsagers Bank · 4 miBen Jones & 1 moreRBHarriseahead, Mow Cop and Newchapel · 4 miRalph Barlow & 1 moreMOTalke and Talke Pits · 3 miMargaret O'FlynnQuestions about famous people from Alsager
Who is the most famous person from Alsager?
Lee Bell (British footballer (born 1983)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Shaun Miller and Rowan Cheshire.
How many famous people were born in Alsager?
8 people born in Alsager have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Alsager known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 8 of the 8. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Alsager?
Arthur Lockett, born in 1877. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Alsager?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Alsager’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- Lee Bell: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shaun Miller: Franziska, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lloyd Saxton: Anders Henrikson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Forrester: EchetusXe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- I. A. Richards: © Richards family archive, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- R. J. Mitchell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Buck: Downingman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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