No famous person from Rease Heath yet, but Crewe next door has 111
56 towns in Cheshire have at least one famous person on record. Chester’s 296 names make the longest list in Cheshire. 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 Rease Heath’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Rease Heath yet.
Famous people born near Rease Heath
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Crewe · 3 miNick Powell & 110 more
Nantwich · 1 miAshley Westwood & 38 more
Winsford · 7 miDanny Fox & 21 morePEAudlem · 7 miPeter Ellson & 2 moreWBHaslington · 5 miWilliam Broome & 1 more
Bunbury · 6 miFrederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley & 1 more
Tarporley · 8 miHenry Shaw & 1 moreJSShavington · 4 miJeff SpencerQuestions about famous people from Rease Heath
Who counts as from Rease Heath?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rease Heath’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
- Danny Fox: Nottingham Forest F.C., CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Shaw: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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