Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Manea is on the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Ely, 7 mi away: 45, led by Guy Pearce. Cambridge has the most of any town in Cambridgeshire: 529. After Cambridge, the next longest list in Cambridgeshire is Peterborough’s, with 178. Across Cambridgeshire, the lists cover 56 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Manea’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Manea yet.
Famous people born near Manea
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Manea, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Manea
Who counts as from Manea?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Manea’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 (4)
- Guy Pearce: LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Percy Farrar: CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marty Scurll: Simon Q, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ann Mary Burgess: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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