No one from Aston is on the famous people list yet
Of its neighbours, Crewe, 8 mi away, lists the most: 111, Nick Powell first. The longest list in Cheshire is Chester’s, with 296 names. Warrington has the second-longest list in Cheshire, after Chester, with 254. Across Cheshire, the lists cover 56 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Aston’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Aston yet.
Famous people born near Aston
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Crewe · 8 miNick Powell & 110 more
Nantwich · 4 miAshley Westwood & 38 more
Whitchurch · 6 miEdward German & 8 more
Market Drayton · 9 miJohn Lewis & 5 more
Malpas · 8 miGeorge Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley & 3 morePEAudlem · 3 miPeter Ellson & 2 more
Bunbury · 8 miFrederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley & 1 moreWBHaslington · 10 miWilliam Broome & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Aston
Who counts as from Aston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Aston’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 (6)
- Nick Powell: Geoffrey Chisnall, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ashley Westwood: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward German: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lewis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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