Photo: Iantresman · CC BY-SA 4.0Wheelock has yet to put a famous person on the list
Go 4 mi to Crewe and the list grows to 111, with Nick Powell at the top. Across Cheshire, the lists cover 56 towns. Chester’s 296 names make the longest list in Cheshire. 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 Wheelock’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Wheelock yet.
Famous people born near Wheelock
The fullest list close by belongs to Crewe, with 111.
Crewe · 4 miNick Powell & 110 more
Sandbach · 1 miI. A. Richards & 12 more
Alsager · 4 miLee Bell & 7 more
Middlewich · 5 miTheophilus Lindsey & 7 more
Holmes Chapel · 5 miThomas Ford & 7 moreWBHaslington · 2 miWilliam Broome & 1 moreGCScholar Green · 6 miGeorge Clawley & 1 moreJSShavington · 6 miJeff SpencerQuestions about famous people from Wheelock
Who counts as from Wheelock?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Wheelock’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
- Lee Bell: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Theophilus Lindsey: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Ford: National Lottery Good Causes, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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