Photo: Bryn Holmes · CC BY-SA 2.0Hurley has no famous person on record yet
Maidenhead, 4 mi away, has 52 on its list, the best known Hugh Lofting. 43 towns across Berkshire can name a famous person born there. No town in Berkshire lists more than Reading, with 387. After Reading, the next longest list in Berkshire is Slough’s, with 132.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hurley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Hurley as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Hurley
Of the towns nearby, Maidenhead lists the most people: 52.
Maidenhead · 4 miHugh Lofting & 51 moreDTHenley-on-Thames · 4 miDavid Tomlinson & 36 more
Cookham · 4 miStanley Spencer & 16 more
Marlow · 3 miSteve Redgrave & 12 more
Bourne End · 5 miRosamond Lehmann & 6 moreBBWargrave · 4 miBert Bushnell & 2 moreDPTwyford · 5 miDennis Price & 2 moreJSFlackwell Heath and Wooburn Green · 6 miJohn Saunders & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Hurley
Who counts as from Hurley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hurley’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)
- Hugh Lofting: Unknown (Before 1925) Depicts Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stanley Spencer: No answer by website owner, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Redgrave: Steve_Redgrave_20110525.jpg: Phil Guest derivative work: MachoCarioca, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rosamond Lehmann: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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