Photo: Andrew Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Longwick has yet to put a famous person on the list
Andrea Leadsom heads the list in Aylesbury, 6 mi away, which has 103 names. The longest list of any town in Buckinghamshire belongs to High Wycombe, with 107. Famous people are on record for 65 of the towns in Buckinghamshire.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Longwick’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Longwick yet.
Famous people born near Longwick
The most names next door are in Aylesbury: 103.
Aylesbury · 6 miAndrea Leadsom & 102 more
Thame · 5 miJames Figg & 10 more
Wendover · 6 miCecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin & 9 more
Stoke Mandeville · 5 miJames Roberts & 2 moreESPrinces Risborough · 2 miEdward Stone & 1 more
Haddenham · 4 miDoreen Carwithen & 1 more
Chinnor · 3 miAdam ClaytonRHStokenchurch · 6 miRichard HickoxQuestions about famous people from Longwick
Who counts as from Longwick?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Longwick’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 (6)
- Andrea Leadsom: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Figg: John Faber Jr, after John Ellys, Public domain, 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
- 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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