Photo: Ronald Saunders from Warrington, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0Croft has yet to put a famous person on the list
The nearest list is in Warrington, 3 mi away: 254 names, starting with Tim Curry. Famous people are on record for 56 of the towns in Cheshire. Chester has the most of any town in Cheshire: 296.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Croft’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Croft yet.
Famous people born near Croft
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Warrington · 3 miTim Curry & 253 more
Leigh · 5 miNigel Short & 98 more
Newton-le-Willows · 4 miRick Astley & 24 more
Golborne · 3 miDavey Boy Smith & 19 moreELIrlam · 5 miEmma Lowndes & 8 more
Lymm · 5 miElizabeth Pulman & 5 more
Culcheth · 2 miDonald Adamson & 4 more
Winwick · 2 miGeoffrey Hornby & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Croft
Who counts as from Croft?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Croft’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)
- Tim Curry: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Short: This photo was taken by Przemysław Jahr Autorem zdjęcia jest Przemysław Jahr Wykorzystując zdjęcie proszę podać jako autora: Przemysław Jahr / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rick Astley: Wjack12, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Davey Boy Smith: James, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Pulman: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donald Adamson: RHaworth, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoffrey Hornby: Russell (photographic company ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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