#1Sports
John Percy Farrar
1857–1929British mountain climber (1857-1929)
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Famous people · Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
From 1793 to 1956, Chatteris was the birthplace of 11 famous people
Articles in 5 languages make the British mountain climber John Percy Farrar the best known. John Percy Farrar was born in 1857. For every 10,000 residents the town has 10, while at least half the towns in Cambridgeshire list nobody born there. The biggest group are athletes: 6.
Born here
11
notable people
Best known
John Percy Farrar
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1793
Thomas Fryer
Youngest
1956
Andy Rogers
Most common field
Sports
6 people
The best known
Born in Chatteris
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#3Politics & Law
George Herbert Farrar
1859–1915South African politician
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Through the years
When Chatteris’s famous people were born
The 1850s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
SportsMilitaryPolitics & LawFaithScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Chatteris is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 6.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Chatteris
The other 8 span the years 1793 to 1956.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Doddington and Wimblington has the longest list next door, one name.
Questions about famous people from Chatteris
Who is the most famous person from Chatteris?
John Percy Farrar (British mountain climber (1857-1929)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Thomas Hayward and George Herbert Farrar.
How many famous people were born in Chatteris?
11 people born in Chatteris have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Chatteris known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 6 of the 11. That is 55% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Chatteris?
Thomas Fryer, born in 1793. The youngest on the list was born in 1956.
Who counts as from Chatteris?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Chatteris’ 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)
- John Percy Farrar: CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Hayward: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Herbert Farrar: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Venner: George The Dragon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Gunton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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