#1Famous people · Crewe, Cheshire
111 famous people were born in Crewe, most of them since 1970
At the top of the list is the English association football player Nick Powell, covered in 33 languages. Behind the leader come Luke Greenbank and Bryony Page. Crewe ranks 3rd of the 56 towns in Cheshire with anyone listed. The first birth on record is Richard Hough’s, in 1505, and the last Charlie Finney’s, in 2003.
Born here
111
notable people
Best known
Nick Powell
in 33 Wikipedia languages
First
1505
Richard Hough
Youngest
2003
Charlie Finney
Most common field
Sports
80 people
What stands out about Crewe’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Crewe’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1990s come out on top, with 19 births.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StageMusicScience & MedicineFaithBusinessNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Crewe
All three are athletes.
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What Crewe is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Crewe
Of the other 108, 77 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Nantwich has the most on record: 39.
Questions about famous people from Crewe
Who is the most famous person from Crewe?
Nick Powell (English association football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 33 languages. Next come Luke Greenbank and Bryony Page.
How many famous people were born in Crewe?
111 people born in Crewe have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 123 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Crewe known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 80 of the 111. That is 72% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Crewe?
Richard Hough, born in 1505. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Crewe?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Crewe’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 (42)
- Nick Powell: Geoffrey Chisnall, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bryony Page: Gérald Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Stafford: Dwaynerip, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Langridge: Gregor Rom, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shanaze Reade: knackeredhack, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Hulse: currybet, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Craig Jones: Smudge 9000 from North Kent Coast, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Pearson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Max Clayton: Egghead06, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Butterworth: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Maynard: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Watson: Timmy96, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Morris: ChrisTheDude at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kelvin Mellor: Paul W, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Edwards: Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mat Bailey: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Rickitt: mattbuck (category), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Junior Brown: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lucy Roberts: James Boyes from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Wood: Thedarkarches, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Hope: S. R. Morgan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- A-Jay Leitch-Smith: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christian Smith: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Connor O'Riordan: Paul W, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eleanor Heeps: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Harley: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Glover: Skippo10, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Prince: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Moss: Louis Ollier, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Blaster Bates: Planetzed (Uploads), CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Finney: Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Gaskell: Jack86mkII, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Muthu Alagappan: user:MuthuAlagapp, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Nevitt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Morris: Paul W, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Turner: Lawson Speedway, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Tempest: Sr284444, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ashley Westwood: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- I. A. Richards: © Richards family archive, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lee Bell: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Theophilus Lindsey: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Buck: Downingman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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