Cheshire

This article is about the English county. For other uses see Cheshire (disambiguation)

Famous people

• the singer Tim Burgess from the Charlatans
• Lewis Carroll was born and raised here, hence the Cheshire cat
• Actor and singer Tim Curry was born in Warrington
• Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere was born in Ellesmere
• Writer Alan Garner
• Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell was brought up in the town of Knutsford, which she depicted in her book, Cranford
• Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, one of the UK's wealthiest residents lives at Eaton Hall near Chester
• Emma Hamilton (Lady Hamilton) was born in the county