#1Famous people · Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Stotfold counts 3 famous people, first among them Victoria Pendleton
Articles in 29 languages make the British cyclist and jockey Victoria Pendleton the best known. Jack Smith and Kevin Gentle follow. A short trip away, Hitchin (4 mi) counts 84 famous people, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother among them. From Jack Smith to Victoria Pendleton, the births on the list run from 1936 to 1980.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Victoria Pendleton
in 29 Wikipedia languages
First
1936
Jack Smith
Youngest
1980
Victoria Pendleton
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Stotfold
Languages with an article: 29 for Victoria Pendleton, 3 for Jack Smith, 3 for Kevin Gentle.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Hitchin, at 84.
Questions about famous people from Stotfold
Who is the most famous person from Stotfold?
Victoria Pendleton (British cyclist and jockey) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 29 languages. Next come Jack Smith and Kevin Gentle.
How many famous people were born in Stotfold?
3 people born in Stotfold have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Stotfold known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 3. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Stotfold?
Jack Smith, born in 1936. The youngest on the list was born in 1980.
Who counts as from Stotfold?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Stotfold’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 (5)
- Victoria Pendleton: Jean_Christophe_Novelli_and_Victoria_Pendleton.jpg: Stuart Webster from Southampton, England derivative work: Baldboris99, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: Richard Stone, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Lovelock: Bruno Comby, CC BY-SA 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Farr: Standish and Preece, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ben Whishaw: Everwest, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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