Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Felmersham yet, but Rushden next door has 11
The Bedfordshire lists hold names for 45 towns. The longest list of any town in Bedfordshire belongs to Luton, with 223. Biggleswade has the second-longest list in Bedfordshire, after Luton, with 15. The best known born in Rushden is H. E. Bates.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Felmersham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Felmersham yet.
Famous people born near Felmersham
The longest list nearby is Rushden’s, with 11.
Questions about famous people from Felmersham
Who counts as from Felmersham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Felmersham’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 (2)
- Matt Berry: Christopher William Adach from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Le Fevre: Parliament of Victoria, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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