What is "cheatham"

Cheatham may refer to:

• Cheatham County, Tennessee, a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee
• Cheatham House (disambiguation)
• Cheatham Lock and Dam, a dam in Ashland City, Tennessee, USA.
• Cheatham Middle School, a middle school in the Clarksville Independent School District, Texas, United States

• Cheatham

• South Cheatham Advocate, a weekly newspaper published in Kingston Springs, Tennessee since 1990

Cheatham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Benjamin F. Cheatham (1820–1886), Tennessee aristocrat, Confederate general and California gold miner
• Boyd M. Cheatham, Tennessee state congressman
• Charles Cheatham Cavanah (1871–1953), United States federal judge
• Dave Cheatham, Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 69th District since 2006
• Doc Cheatham (1905–1997), jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader
• Donna Cheatham, the winningest coach in Indiana girls’ high school basketball history
• Edward Saunders Cheatham (1818-1878), Tennessee state congressman and senator.
• Eugene Calvin Cheatham, Jr. (1915—2005), one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a career officer
• Henry P. Cheatham (1857–1935), African American Republican member of the United States House of Representatives
• Jimmy Cheatham (1924–2007), American jazz trombonist and teacher
• Karla Cheatham Mosley (born 1981), American actress
• Kitty Cheatham (1864–1946), American singer and actress
• Maree Cheatham (born 1942), American actress
• Oliver Cheatham (1948–2013), American singer
• Owen Robertson Cheatham (1902-1970), founder of Georgia-Pacific
• Richard Boone Cheatham (1824–1877), mayor of Nashville, Tennessee during the opening years of the Civil War
• Richard Cheatham (1799–1845), American politician who represented Tennessee 's eleventh district
• Teresa Cheatham, vocal instructor from Wellington, Alabama who was named Miss Alabama 1978