Photo: Jim Barton · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people near Brown Knowl: 9 in Whitchurch
Across Cheshire, the lists cover 56 towns. No entry yet names Brown Knowl as a birthplace. Chester has the most of any town in Cheshire: 296. After Chester, the next longest list in Cheshire is Warrington’s, with 254.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Brown Knowl’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Brown Knowl yet.
Famous people born near Brown Knowl
Close by, Whitchurch counts 9 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Whitchurch · 8 miEdward German & 8 more
Rossett · 8 miChris Wickham & 6 more
Malpas · 4 miGeorge Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley & 3 more
Bunbury · 5 miFrederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley & 1 more
Holt · 5 miLeigh Richmond Roose & 1 more
Tarporley · 6 miHenry Shaw & 1 more
Farndon · 5 miJohn SpeedJDChristleton and Waverton · 8 miJohn DolphinQuestions about famous people from Brown Knowl
Who counts as from Brown Knowl?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Brown Knowl’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)
- Edward German: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Wickham: Tajotep, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Leigh Richmond Roose: UnknownUnknown (uncredited by source) The original uploader was Mikedash at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Shaw: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Speed: Salomon Savery, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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