Cleckheaton as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. British artist, printmaker, and camoufleur (1889-1949), British author and illustrator (1935–1988), Australian botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator (1912–1977)): Edward Wadsworth, Roger Hargreaves, Nancy Tyson Burbidge and some more.
Celebrities from Cleckheaton