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Photo: Pam Brophy · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Hermitage, Berkshire
Mary Adams is the only name on the Hermitage list
The English TV director and producer Mary Adams was born in 1898. That places their birth in the Victorian era. Their story is told in 2 languages. Newbury, 5 mi off, can claim 52 famous people, the best known Richard Adams.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Mary Adams
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1898
Mary Adams
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 people
The best known
Born in Hermitage
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Newbury · 5 miRichard Adams & 51 moreAKThatcham · 4 miAndy King & 5 more
Pangbourne · 8 miTracy Edwards & 3 more
Woolton Hill and Highclere · 8 miAuberon Herbert & 3 moreKCGoring · 8 miKenneth Callow & 2 moreWDCold Ash · 2 miW. R. A. Dawson
Compton · 4 miNassau William Senior
Upper Basildon · 6 miJethro TullQuestions about famous people from Hermitage
Who is the most famous person from Hermitage?
Mary Adams (English TV director and producer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages.
How many famous people were born in Hermitage?
1 people born in Hermitage have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Hermitage known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Hermitage?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hermitage’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)
- Richard Adams: AndrewRH, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tracy Edwards: TMF95, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Auberon Herbert: Frederick Hollyer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nassau William Senior: Original uploader was user:Milneg at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jethro Tull: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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