Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Higher Denham
Just 5 mi away, Hillingdon’s list holds 201 names, Andy Serkis the best known. No famous person’s birth in Higher Denham is on record yet. 65 of the towns in Buckinghamshire list at least one person. High Wycombe’s 107 names make the longest list in Buckinghamshire.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Higher Denham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Higher Denham yet.
Famous people born near Higher Denham
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Hillingdon · 5 miAndy Serkis & 200 more
Chalfont St Giles · 4 miNick Clegg & 12 more
Gerrards Cross · 2 miKenneth More & 9 moreJHIver · 4 miJulian Haviland & 6 morePOChalfont St Peter · 3 miPatrick O'Brian & 3 moreVAFarnham Common and Farnham Royal · 4 miVic Armstrong & 1 more
Seer Green · 5 miBenedict Read & 1 more
Iver Heath · 3 miPrince Michael of KentQuestions about famous people from Higher Denham
Who counts as from Higher Denham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Higher Denham’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)
- Andy Serkis: Fandomuniverse, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Clegg: Picture by Marcel Grabowski / UK Gov - UK Government, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenneth More: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Benedict Read: Artcyprus, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Prince Michael of Kent: Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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