Chester (given name)

Chester is a masculine given name.

Notable people with this name

  • Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886), the 21st president of the United States
  • Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (1924–2001), American musician
  • Chester Bennington (1976-2017), the lead vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park
  • Chester Brown (born 1960), Canadian alternative cartoonist and, since 2008, the Libertarian Party of Canada's candidate for the riding of Trinity-Spadina in Toronto, Canada
  • Chester Burnett (1910–1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player
  • Chester Carlson (1906–1968), American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney
  • Chester Conklin (1886–1971), American comedian and actor
  • Chester Conn (1894–1973), American composer of popular music
  • Chester Crocker (born 1941), American diplomat
  • Chester Cruikshank (1913–1970), American athlete
  • Chester Dale (1883-1962), American banker, major donor to the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
  • Chester Gould (1900–1985), American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip
  • Chester Himes (1909–1984), American writer, author of If He Hollers Let Him Go
  • Chester Holifield (1903–1995), United States Representative from California
  • Chester Kallman (1921–1975), American writer
  • Chester Ludgin (1925–2003), American operatic baritone
  • Chester Manifold (1867–1918), Australian politician and philanthropist.
  • Chester Morris (1901–1970), American actor, who starred in the Boston Blackie detective series of the 1940s
  • Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966), American five-star admiral
  • Chester Novell Turner, African-American filmmaker
  • Chester See (born 1983), American musician, actor and YouTube personality
  • Chester Taylor (born 1979), American football running back of the National Football League who is currently on the Arizona Cardinals
  • Chester Thompson (born 1948), American drummer and session musician
  • Chester Williams (1970-2019), former South African rugby union rugby player
  • Chester Sidney Williams (1907–1992), American educator and author who wrote extensively about education and freedoms

Fictional characters

gollark: What?
gollark: Or store a list of valid keys/levels on pastebin, and have each door controller download those.
gollark: Or use my idea.
gollark: Or... you could have them communicate with a central thing over a **wired** network?
gollark: Also, it might be hard to match each disk drive to a door or whatever.
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