Chester (name)
Chester is a male first name and family name of British origin common in the English-speaking world . It goes back to the city of the same name in England . A common diminutive of the given name is Chet .
Name bearer
First name
- Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886), 21st President of the United States
- Chester A. Chesney (1916–1986), American politician
- Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (1924–2001), American country musician
- Chester Bennington (1976-2017), American rock singer
- Chester Brown (* 1960), Canadian comic artist
- Chester Burnett (1910–1976), known as Howlin 'Wolf , American blues musician
- Chester Carlson (1906–1968), American physicist and inventor
- Chester Conklin (1886–1971), American actor
- Chester Conn (1894–1873), American composer
- Chester Crocker (* 1941), American political scientist
- Chester Cruikshank (1913-1970), American track and field athlete
- Chester Dale (1883–1962), American banker and patron of the arts
- Chester Gould (1900–1985), American comic artist
- Chester E. Holifield (1903-1995), American politician
- Chester Himes (1909-1984), American writer
- Chester Kallman (1921–1975), American writer
- Chester Ludgin (1925–2003), American opera baritone
- Chester Morris (1901–1970), American actor
- Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966), American five-star admiral
- Chester Rutecki (1916–1976), American boxer
- Chester Taylor ( American football player ) (born 1979), American football player
- Chester W. Taylor (1883–1931), American politician
- Chester Thompson (born 1948), American drummer
- Chester Sidney Williams (1907–1992), American author and educator
- Chester Williams (1970–2019), South African rugby player and coach
- Chester Williams (* 1973), British police officer
family name
- Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon (1171-1233), Anglo-Norman nobleman
- Bob Chester (1908–1975), American tenor saxophonist
- Chris Chester (born 1983), American football player
- Craig Chester (born 1965), American actor and screenwriter
- Elroy Chester (1969–2013), American serious criminal and serial killer
- Frederick Dixon Chester (1861–1943), mushroom expert and microbiologist
- Ilan Chester (* 1952), Venezuelan musician and singer
- Jacques Chester (* 1980), Australian weightlifter
- James Chester (* 1989), Welsh-English football player
- Roy Chester Bell (1907–1977), American baseball player
- Vanessa Lee Chester (* 1984), American actress