Cheatham (surname)
Cheatham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Benjamin F. Cheatham, Confederate general and California gold miner
- Boyd M. Cheatham, Tennessee state congressman
- Charles Cheatham Cavanah, United States federal judge
- Dave Cheatham, Democratic member, Indiana House of Representatives
- Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader
- Donna Cheatham, American high school girls' basketball coach
- Edward Saunders Cheatham, Tennessee state congressman and senator.
- Eugene Calvin Cheatham Jr., one of the Tuskegee Airmen and a career officer
- Henry P. Cheatham, African American Republican member, US House of Representatives
- Jack Cheatham, American character actor
- Jimmy Cheatham, American jazz trombonist and teacher
- John Cheatham, American firefighter
- Karla Cheatham Mosley, American actress
- Kitty Cheatham, American singer and actress
- Kwan Cheatham, American basketball player for Ironi Nes Ziona of the Israel Basketball Premier League
- Maree Cheatham, American actress
- Oliver Cheatham, American singer
- Owen Robertson Cheatham, American founder of Georgia-Pacific
- Richard Boone Cheatham, mayor of Nashville, Tennessee during the opening years of the Civil War
- Richard Cheatham, American politician who represented Tennessee 's eleventh district
- Teresa Cheatham, vocal instructor from Wellington, Alabama who was named Miss Alabama 1978