Photo: Rosalind Mitchell · CC BY-SA 2.0Knowl Hill has yet to put a famous person on the list
Maidenhead, 4 mi away, has 52 on its list, the best known Hugh Lofting. The longest list of any town in Berkshire belongs to Reading, with 387. After Reading, the next longest list in Berkshire is Slough’s, with 132. The Berkshire lists hold names for 43 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Knowl Hill’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Knowl Hill yet.
Famous people born near Knowl Hill
Maidenhead has the longest list next door: 52.
Questions about famous people from Knowl Hill
Who counts as from Knowl Hill?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Knowl Hill’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)
- 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
- John Vere Hopgood: Hopgood family member (deceased), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Ottaway: Dean Calma / IAEA. Part of the IAEA Imagebank., CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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