Photo: Peter McDermott · CC BY-SA 2.0Winterley has no famous person on record yet
Just 3 mi away, Crewe’s list holds 111 names, Nick Powell the best known. 56 of the towns in Cheshire list at least one person. 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 Winterley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Winterley yet.
Famous people born near Winterley
The most names next door are in Crewe: 111.
Questions about famous people from Winterley
Who counts as from Winterley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Winterley’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)
- 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
- Fred Buck: Downingman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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