RD#1
Science & Medicine
Richard John Durley
1868–1948British engineer born 11 February 1868
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Church of St James · Photo: No Swan So Fine · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Bierton, Buckinghamshire
2 famous people call Bierton their birthplace
Richard John Durley leads the list, covered in 3 languages. The list has one more: the Australian cricketer Vic Honour. The neighbour with the longest list is Aylesbury, 2 mi away: 103, led by Andrea Leadsom. Over 42 years of births, the list goes from Richard John Durley (1868) to Vic Honour (1910).
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Richard John Durley
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1868
Richard John Durley
Youngest
1910
Vic Honour
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 people
The best known
Born in Bierton
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Known for
What Bierton is known for
Scientists and doctors are the most numerous, 1 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 neighbour with the most names is Aylesbury, at 103.
Questions about famous people from Bierton
Who is the most famous person from Bierton?
Richard John Durley (British engineer born 11 February 1868) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Vic Honour.
How many famous people were born in Bierton?
2 people born in Bierton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bierton known for?
Among its famous people, scientists and doctors: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 7% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bierton?
Richard John Durley, born in 1868. The youngest on the list was born in 1910.
Who counts as from Bierton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bierton’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)
- Andrea Leadsom: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin: Smithsonian Institution/Science Service, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Roberts: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Bacheler: Thomas Lant, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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