Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Roxton is listed yet
Go 4 mi to St Neots and the list grows to 15, with Jacob Hennessy at the top. 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. Famous people are on record for 45 of the towns in Bedfordshire.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Roxton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Roxton yet.
Famous people born near Roxton
The longest list nearby is St Neots’, with 15.
Questions about famous people from Roxton
Who counts as from Roxton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Roxton’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)
- Jacob Hennessy: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Albone: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bunyan: Thomas Sadler, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Irvine: Craig Grobler (Flickr account) at www.theestablishingshot.com, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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