Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Upper Lambourn
A short trip away, Wantage (7 mi) counts 16 famous people, Alfred the Great among them. No entry yet names Upper Lambourn as a birthplace. Across Berkshire, the lists cover 43 towns. Reading’s 387 names make the longest list in Berkshire.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Upper Lambourn’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Upper Lambourn yet.
Famous people born near Upper Lambourn
Wantage has the longest list next door: 16.
Wantage · 7 miAlfred the Great & 15 more
Hungerford · 8 miCharlie Austin & 9 more
Faringdon · 9 miCharles Lapworth & 7 moreTLLambourn · 1 miTed Lowe & 2 more
Ramsbury · 6 miEdward Meyrick & 1 more
Wanborough · 7 miLouise Hunt & 1 more
Shrivenham and Watchfield · 7 miShute Barrington & 1 more
Chiseldon · 8 miAnthony ForsterQuestions about famous people from Upper Lambourn
Who counts as from Upper Lambourn?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Upper 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 (7)
- 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
- Charles Lapworth: Public domain, 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
- Anthony Forster: Essex Comms, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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