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Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Lambourn, Berkshire
Lambourn is the birthplace of 3 famous people
The best known is the snooker commentator Ted Lowe, with articles in 6 languages. Second place goes to the English cricketer Frederick Bates, third to Ray Howard-Jones. Just 7 mi away, Wantage’s list holds 16 names, Alfred the Great the best known. Born in 1899, Frederick Bates is the first name on record, and Ted Lowe, born in 1920, the most recent.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Ted Lowe
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1899
Frederick Bates
Youngest
1920
Ted Lowe
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Lambourn
Two of the three are athletes.
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Known for
What Lambourn is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Wantage: 16.
Wantage · 7 miAlfred the Great & 15 more
Hungerford · 7 miCharlie Austin & 9 more
Ramsbury · 5 miEdward Meyrick & 1 more
Wanborough · 8 miLouise Hunt & 1 more
Shrivenham and Watchfield · 8 miShute Barrington & 1 more
Great Bedwyn · 9 miThomas Willis & 1 more
Kintbury · 8 miGeorge Cherry
Chiseldon · 9 miAnthony ForsterQuestions about famous people from Lambourn
Who is the most famous person from Lambourn?
Ted Lowe (snooker commentator (1920-2011)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Frederick Bates and Ray Howard-Jones.
How many famous people were born in Lambourn?
3 people born in Lambourn have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Lambourn known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lambourn?
Frederick Bates, born in 1899. The youngest on the list was born in 1920.
Who counts as from Lambourn?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lambourn’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 (8)
- Alfred the Great: CNG - Classical Numismatic Group, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Austin: Brian Minkoff-London Pixels, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Meyrick: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louise Hunt: N1CKchooseanothername, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shute Barrington: Contemporary portrait, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Willis: Engraved by George Vertue (1684 – 1756) [2], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Cherry: Artist John Hanson Walker (1844–1933), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Forster: Essex Comms, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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