Photo: Ydam · CC BY 2.5No famous person from Chelford yet, but Macclesfield next door has 94
Across Cheshire, the lists cover 56 towns. Chester’s 296 names make the longest list in Cheshire. After Chester, the next longest list in Cheshire is Warrington’s, with 254. The best known born in Macclesfield is Peter Crouch.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Chelford’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Chelford yet.
Famous people born near Chelford
Macclesfield has the longest list next door: 94.
Macclesfield · 6 miPeter Crouch & 93 more
Knutsford · 4 miLucy Morton & 22 moreCNWilmslow · 4 miChris Nicholl & 15 more
Prestbury · 6 miBrian Houghton Hodgson & 14 more
Alderley Edge · 3 miArthur Penrhyn Stanley & 7 more
Holmes Chapel · 6 miThomas Ford & 7 moreJBBollington · 7 miJames Bailey & 6 more
Mobberley · 3 miGeorge Mallory & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Chelford
Who counts as from Chelford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Chelford’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)
- Peter Crouch: Original: CFC Unofficial (Debs) / Derivative work: Danyele, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lucy Morton: Le Miroir des sports, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Houghton Hodgson: Louisa Starr, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley: Lowes Cato Dickinson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Ford: National Lottery Good Causes, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Mallory: Sandy Wollaston, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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