#1Film, TV & Stage
Matt Berry
born 1974British actor and comedian (born 1974)
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Famous people · Bromham, Bedfordshire
Matt Berry tops a list of 2 famous people born in Bromham
Articles in 21 languages make the British actor and comedian Matt Berry the best known. The only other name is the English association football player Bert Abbott. For more famous names, Kempston is 3 mi away: its list has 5, led by Roy Babbington. Born in 1875, Bert Abbott is the first name on record, and Matt Berry, born in 1974, the most recent.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Matt Berry
in 21 Wikipedia languages
First
1875
Bert Abbott
Youngest
1974
Matt Berry
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 people
The best known
Born in Bromham
#1BA#2
Sports
Bert Abbott
1875–1911English association football player (1875-1911)
7 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What Bromham is known for
Film, TV & Stage leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Kempston’s, with 5.
Questions about famous people from Bromham
Who is the most famous person from Bromham?
Matt Berry (British actor and comedian (born 1974)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 21 languages. Next come Bert Abbott.
How many famous people were born in Bromham?
2 people born in Bromham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bromham known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bromham?
Bert Abbott, born in 1875. The youngest on the list was born in 1974.
Who counts as from Bromham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bromham’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Matt Berry: Christopher William Adach from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roy Babbington: Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bunyan: Thomas Sadler, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Le Fevre: Parliament of Victoria, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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