Photo: Martyn Davies · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Fifield
Within 4 mi, Slough lists the most: 132, with John Frederick William Herschel first. The list for Fifield is empty for now. No town in Berkshire lists more than Reading, with 387. Across Berkshire, 43 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Fifield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Fifield yet.
Famous people born near Fifield
Slough leads the towns around it, with 132 names.
Slough · 4 miJohn Frederick William Herschel & 131 more
Maidenhead · 3 miHugh Lofting & 51 more
Ascot · 6 miCamilla Luddington & 44 more
Eton · 4 miWilliam Oughtred & 31 more
Windsor · 3 miEdward III of England & 28 more
Cookham · 5 miStanley Spencer & 16 moreGMOld Windsor and Wraysbury · 6 miGeraldine McEwan & 6 moreBTDatchet · 5 miBruce Tulloh & 5 moreQuestions about famous people from Fifield
Who counts as from Fifield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fifield’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 (6)
- John Frederick William Herschel: Julia Margaret Cameron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugh Lofting: Unknown (Before 1925) Depicts Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Camilla Luddington: Mingle MediaTV, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Oughtred: Wenceslaus Hollar, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward III of England: TheAncientHistorian, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stanley Spencer: No answer by website owner, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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