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Famous people · Winslow, Buckinghamshire
2 famous people call Winslow their birthplace
Articles in 3 languages make the British entomologist Joseph Dandridge the best known. William Lowndes is the only other name on the list. Just 7 mi away, Bletchley’s list holds 15 names, Derek Redmond the best known. Born in 1652, William Lowndes is the first name on record, and Joseph Dandridge, born in 1665, the most recent.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Joseph Dandridge
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1652
William Lowndes
Youngest
1665
Joseph Dandridge
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 people
The best known
Born in Winslow
#2Politics & Law
William Lowndes
1652–1724English politician, Secretary to the Treasury; (1652-1724)
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Known for
What Winslow is known for
The field with the most names is Science & Medicine: 1.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
6 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Winslow
Who is the most famous person from Winslow?
Joseph Dandridge (British entomologist) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come William Lowndes.
How many famous people were born in Winslow?
2 people born in Winslow have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Winslow known for?
Among its famous people, scientists and doctors: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 7% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Winslow?
William Lowndes, born in 1652. The youngest on the list was born in 1665.
Who counts as from Winslow?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Winslow’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 (3)
- William Lowndes: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Redmond: Parliament Speakers Limited, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Al Murray: Isabelle Adam, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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