Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Ballinger Common is on the famous people list yet
Within 5 mi, Berkhamsted lists the most: 37, with Graham Greene first. The longest list in Buckinghamshire is High Wycombe’s, with 107 names. After High Wycombe, the next longest list in Buckinghamshire is Aylesbury’s, with 103. The Buckinghamshire lists hold names for 65 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ballinger Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ballinger Common yet.
Famous people born near Ballinger Common
Close by, Berkhamsted counts 37 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Berkhamsted · 5 miGraham Greene & 36 moreJWTring · 5 miJohn Washington & 14 more
Wendover · 4 miCecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin & 9 more
Chesham · 3 miMargaret Mee & 7 more
Amersham · 5 miMervyn King & 6 moreBAPrestwood and Great Missenden · 3 miBill Atkins & 1 moreTLHazlemere · 5 miTerry Long & 1 moreNSLittle Kingshill · 2 miNorah SmallwoodQuestions about famous people from Ballinger Common
Who counts as from Ballinger Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballinger Common’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 (4)
- Graham Greene: FOTO:Fortepan — ID 84697: Adományozó/Donor: Magyar Hírek folyóirat. archive copy at the Wayback Machine, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin: Smithsonian Institution/Science Service, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Mee: Tony Morrison, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mervyn King: ©House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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