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 of the Indiana House of Representatives, representing the 69th District since 2006
- Doc Cheatham, jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader
- Donna Cheatham, the winningest coach in Indiana girls' high school basketball history
- 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 of the United States House of Representatives
- Jack Cheatham, American character actor
- Jimmy Cheatham, American jazz trombonist and teacher
- Karla Cheatham Mosley, American actress
- Kitty Cheatham, American singer and actress
- Maree Cheatham, American actress
- Oliver Cheatham, American singer
- Owen Robertson Cheatham, 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
