Photo: The original uploader was Matthewneiljones at English Wikipedia . · CC BY 1.0Hankelow has no famous person on record yet
A short trip away, Crewe (7 mi) counts 111 famous people, Nick Powell among them. 56 towns in Cheshire have at least one famous person on record. Chester has the most of any town in Cheshire: 296. After Chester, the next longest list in Cheshire is Warrington’s, with 254.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hankelow’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hankelow yet.
Famous people born near Hankelow
Of the towns nearby, Crewe lists the most people: 111.
Crewe · 7 miNick Powell & 110 more
Nantwich · 4 miAshley Westwood & 38 more
Market Drayton · 7 miJohn Lewis & 5 more
Audley · 8 miFred Buck & 4 morePEAudlem · 1 miPeter Ellson & 2 more
Madeley · 6 miNathan Smith & 1 moreWBHaslington · 8 miWilliam Broome & 1 moreBJHalmer End and Alsagers Bank · 8 miBen Jones & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Hankelow
Who counts as from Hankelow?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hankelow’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
- Ashley Westwood: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lewis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Buck: Downingman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Smith: EchetusXe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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