Photo: Steve Daniels · CC BY-SA 2.0Butt Green has no famous person on record yet
Nick Powell heads the list in Crewe, 4 mi away, which has 111 names. 56 towns in Cheshire have at least one famous person on record. No town in Cheshire lists more than Chester, with 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 Butt Green’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Butt Green yet.
Famous people born near Butt Green
Crewe leads the towns around it, with 111 names.
Crewe · 4 miNick Powell & 110 more
Nantwich · 1 miAshley Westwood & 38 more
Audley · 8 miFred Buck & 4 morePEAudlem · 5 miPeter Ellson & 2 moreWBHaslington · 5 miWilliam Broome & 1 more
Bunbury · 7 miFrederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley & 1 more
Madeley · 8 miNathan Smith & 1 moreJSShavington · 2 miJeff SpencerQuestions about famous people from Butt Green
Who counts as from Butt Green?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Butt Green’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 (5)
- Nick Powell: Geoffrey Chisnall, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ashley Westwood: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Buck: Downingman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Smith: EchetusXe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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