Photo: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Elworth yet, but Crewe next door has 111
In all of Cheshire, the famous people on record come from 56 towns. No town in Cheshire lists more than Chester, with 296. After Chester, the next longest list in Cheshire is Warrington’s, with 254. The best known born in Crewe is Nick Powell.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Elworth’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Elworth yet.
Famous people born near Elworth
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Crewe · 4 miNick Powell & 110 more
Sandbach · 1 miI. A. Richards & 12 more
Middlewich · 4 miTheophilus Lindsey & 7 more
Holmes Chapel · 4 miThomas Ford & 7 more
Alsager · 5 miLee Bell & 7 moreWBHaslington · 3 miWilliam Broome & 1 moreGCScholar Green · 6 miGeorge Clawley & 1 moreJSShavington · 6 miJeff SpencerQuestions about famous people from Elworth
Who counts as from Elworth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Elworth’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
- I. A. Richards: © Richards family archive, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Theophilus Lindsey: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Ford: National Lottery Good Causes, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lee Bell: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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