Photo: Fluffball · CC BY 3.0No famous person yet from Winnersh
A short trip away, Reading (4 mi) counts 387 famous people, Kate Winslet among them. In all of Berkshire, the famous people on record come from 43 towns. 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.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Winnersh’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Winnersh yet.
Famous people born near Winnersh
The neighbour with the most names is Reading, at 387.
Questions about famous people from Winnersh
Who counts as from Winnersh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Winnersh’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)
- Kate Winslet: Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicholas Hoult: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick: John Rous, Public domain, 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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