Photo: Rob Farrow · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Totternhoe has made the famous people list yet
Just 6 mi away, Luton’s list holds 223 names, Arthur Hailey the best known. Across Bedfordshire, the lists cover 45 towns. The longest list in Bedfordshire is Luton’s, with 223 names. After Luton, the next longest list in Bedfordshire is Biggleswade’s, with 15.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Totternhoe’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Totternhoe yet.
Famous people born near Totternhoe
Close by, Luton counts 223 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Dunstable · 2 miBadly Drawn Boy & 13 moreDRLeighton Buzzard · 5 miDerek Reid & 13 moreBBEaton Bray and Edlesborough · 1 miBilly Bates & 2 moreACToddington · 4 miAubrey Cecil & 1 moreCCHoughton Regis · 3 miCharles Henry Cooper
Hockliffe · 3 miArthur Henry NeumannCWKensworth · 3 miChristopher WattsQuestions about famous people from Totternhoe
Who counts as from Totternhoe?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Totternhoe’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)
- Badly Drawn Boy: Yummifruitbat, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Henry Neumann: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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