Photo: Ray Stanton · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Poyle
For more famous names, Ashford is 4 mi away: its list has 38, led by Ruth Wilson. Across Berkshire, the lists cover 43 towns. No famous person on record lists Poyle as their birthplace yet. The longest list of any town in Berkshire belongs to Reading, with 387.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Poyle’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Poyle yet.
Famous people born near Poyle
Of the towns nearby, Ashford lists the most people: 38.
Ashford · 4 miRuth Wilson & 37 moreHFStaines-upon-Thames · 4 miHarry Freeman & 33 more
Eton · 4 miWilliam Oughtred & 31 moreMWEgham · 4 miMary Wesley & 13 moreJHIver · 3 miJulian Haviland & 6 moreGMOld Windsor and Wraysbury · 3 miGeraldine McEwan & 6 moreBTDatchet · 3 miBruce Tulloh & 5 more
Colnbrook · 1 miSamuel Rayner & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Poyle
Who counts as from Poyle?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Poyle’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 (3)
- Ruth Wilson: Mingle MediaTV, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Oughtred: Wenceslaus Hollar, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Rayner: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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