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Writing & Arts
Julian Haviland
1930–2023Political Editor of ITN and The Times
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Photo: Robert Eva · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Iver, Buckinghamshire
7 famous people call Iver their birthplace
Julian Haviland, the political Editor of ITN and The Times, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. In the 20th century, 5 were born, the most of any period. Births span 1880 to 1995, from Oliver White to Oli White. Fewer than a quarter of the 65 towns in Buckinghamshire with famous people list more.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Julian Haviland
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1880
Oliver White
Youngest
1995
Oli White
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Iver
Two of the three are athletes.
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Through the years
When Iver’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1930s come out on top, with 4 births.
SportsWriting & ArtsNotableFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Iver is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 3 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Iver
4 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Iver, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Iver
Who is the most famous person from Iver?
Julian Haviland (political Editor of ITN and The Times) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Kevin Finnegan and Oliver White.
How many famous people were born in Iver?
7 people born in Iver have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Iver known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 7. That is 43% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Iver?
Oliver White, born in 1880. The youngest on the list was born in 1995.
Who counts as from Iver?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Iver’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
- John Frederick William Herschel: Julia Margaret Cameron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Oughtred: Wenceslaus Hollar, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Rayner: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Prince Michael of Kent: Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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