Cheshire - Famous People
Image right - Lewis Caroll
Image by Lewis Carroll - Public Domain, Wiki Commons
Cheshire has many notable people associated with it.
Listed Alphabetically by surname-
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The following people of renown were either born or lived in Cheshire or are strongly associated with Cheshire.
A
- John Almond
- James Arderne
- James Aspinall
- Arthur Aston (army officer)
B
- Brutus Babington
- Thomas Worthington Barlow
- Rik Barnett
- John Barnston
- John Bavant
- William Bentney
- George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer
- Ian Botham
- Arnold Boyd
- Thomas Brerewood
- Katharine Brettargh
- Richard Broke
- Sir Henry Brooke, 1st Baronet
- Moira Buffini
- Robin Burke
- Paul Burrell
C
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) born Daresbury, Cheshire.
D
E
F
- Peter Fahy
- John Feetham (bishop)
- Robin Fisher (cricketer)
- Alexander Fitton
- Edward Fitton (the elder)
- Mary Fitton
- Michael Fitton
- Charles Foster (writer)
- George Frodsham
G
- Erwin Gabathuler
- Ryan Gander
- Alfred Gerrard
- Rodge Glass
- Stephen Glover (antiquary)
- Jonathan Gray (cricketer)
- William Parr Greswell
- Lady Mary Grosvenor
- Richard Grosvenor, 1st Earl Grosvenor
H
- Robert Hallam
- Gerry Hardstaff
- John Haslem (artist)
- Damian Hinds
- Blessed Thomas Holford
- Raphael Holinshed
- John Holland (cricketer)
- Rupert Holmes
- Jean Hood
- Robert Hope-Jones
- Philip Hough
- Simon Hughes
- Thomas Hughes (dramatist)
- Sheila Hutchins
I
J
- Robin Jones (cricketer)
K
- Barbara Keogh
- Robert Knolles
L
- Charles Lamb (cricketer)
- Ruth Lea
- Charles Lee (general)
- Piers Legh II
- Leghs of Adlington
- Leghs of Lyme
- Steve Leonard
- Rob Lloyd
- Gillian Lowndes
M
- Simon Martin (artist)
- Bob Meacock
- Laurence Merbury
- James F. Merton
- Godfrey Milton-Thompson
N
- Cathleen Nesbitt
- Thomas Newton (poet)
- David Norman (ornithologist)
- Norreys
O
- Murder of Stephen Oake
- John O'Brien (cricketer)
- Gillian Oliver
P
- Nigel Peel
- James Pickup
- Caroline Pierce (golfer)
- Mary Pilling
- Plegmund
- Louise Plowright
- John Poole (died 1601)
Q
R
- Peter Reynolds (actor)
S
- Ian Saltmarsh
- John Scotus (bishop of Dunkeld)
- Frank Sharp (English footballer)
- Edward Shippen
- Morag Siller
- Martin Sixsmith
- Sol Heras
- John Speed
- Oliver Starkey
- William Stobart
- Nigel Stonier
- Suzanne Strudwick
- Matthew Swarbrick
T
- Ian Tansley
- Thomas de Thelwall
- John Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache
U-V-W
- Benjamin Valentine
- Paul Wade
- Lee Warburton
- Steven Webb
- Christopher Webber
- Alan Webster (priest)
- Gerald Grosvenor, 4th Duke of Westminster
- Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
- Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
- Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster
- Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster
- William Grosvenor, 3rd Duke of Westminster
- Henry Wilbraham
- Richard Wilkinson (cricketer, born 1982)
- Clare Wille
- Hayley J Williams
- John Williams (motorcyclist)
- William Wilson Cash
- Joseph Wilson (cricketer)
- Damian Worrad
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