Photo: Dave Bevis · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Northwich has made the famous people list yet
Winsford, 5 mi off, can claim 22 famous people, the best known Danny Fox. No town in Cheshire lists more than Chester, with 296. After Chester, the next longest list in Cheshire is Warrington’s, with 254. In Cheshire, 56 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Northwich’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Northwich yet.
Famous people born near Northwich
Of the towns nearby, Winsford lists the most people: 22.
Questions about famous people from Northwich
Who counts as from Northwich?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Northwich’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 (4)
- Danny Fox: Nottingham Forest F.C., CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Theophilus Lindsey: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ann Todd: Selznick International Pictures, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary-Ann Ochota: Portable Antiquities Scheme from London, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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