Photo: Jon S · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Chearsley
Of the famous people on record, none was born in Chearsley. The Buckinghamshire lists hold names for 65 towns. Go 6 mi to Aylesbury and the list grows to 103, with Andrea Leadsom at the top. The longest list in Buckinghamshire is High Wycombe’s, with 107 names.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Chearsley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Chearsley yet.
Famous people born near Chearsley
Close by, Aylesbury counts 103 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Aylesbury · 6 miAndrea Leadsom & 102 more
Thame · 3 miJames Figg & 10 more
Stoke Mandeville · 7 miJames Roberts & 2 more
Haddenham · 2 miDoreen Carwithen & 1 moreESPrinces Risborough · 7 miEdward Stone & 1 morePEWaddesdon · 4 miPhilip Michael EllisHWQuainton · 6 miHilda Mary Woods
Chinnor · 6 miAdam ClaytonQuestions about famous people from Chearsley
Who counts as from Chearsley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Chearsley’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)
- Andrea Leadsom: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Figg: John Faber Jr, after John Ellys, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Roberts: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Doreen Carwithen: Photo by Alec Davison., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Clayton: U2_@_Scott_Stadium_2.jpg: John Athayde derivative work: Y2kcrazyjoker4, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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