Photo: Anthony Parkes · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Fowley Common has made the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Leigh is 3 mi away: its list has 99, led by Nigel Short. Across Cheshire, the lists cover 56 towns. The longest list of any town in Cheshire belongs to Chester, with 296. Warrington has the second-longest list in Cheshire, after Chester, with 254.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Fowley Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Fowley Common yet.
Famous people born near Fowley Common
Leigh has the longest list next door: 99.
Questions about famous people from Fowley Common
Who counts as from Fowley Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fowley Common’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)
- 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
- Davey Boy Smith: James, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ella Toone: James Boyes from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernest Tyldesley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donald Adamson: RHaworth, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoffrey Hornby: Russell (photographic company ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger Hunt: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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