Church of St Mary · Photo: Jiffyhelper · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person from Wavendon yet, but Milton Keynes next door has 62
In Buckinghamshire, 65 towns have someone on the list. The longest list of any town in Buckinghamshire belongs to High Wycombe, with 107. Aylesbury has the second-longest list in Buckinghamshire, after High Wycombe, with 103. The best known born in Milton Keynes is Dele Alli.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Wavendon’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Wavendon yet.
Famous people born near Wavendon
The neighbour with the most names is Milton Keynes, at 62.
Milton Keynes · 4 miDele Alli & 61 more
Newport Pagnell · 5 miGordon Moakes & 18 more
Bletchley · 4 miDerek Redmond & 14 moreDRLeighton Buzzard · 7 miDerek Reid & 13 moreMCCranfield · 4 miMichael Cronin & 2 more
Aspley Guise · 2 miSamuel Mitchell & 1 more
Marston Moretaine · 6 miEdward Tylecote & 1 moreGFWoburn Sands · 1 miGerald FrenchQuestions about famous people from Wavendon
Who counts as from Wavendon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Wavendon’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)
- Dele Alli: Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Moakes: Tom dl, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Redmond: Parliament Speakers Limited, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Mitchell: Victoria Cross Reference, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Tylecote: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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