#1Sports
Nick Pope
born 1992English association football player (born 1992)
45 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Famous people · Soham, Cambridgeshire
4 famous people come from Soham, Nick Pope the best known
The best known is the English association football player Nick Pope, with articles in 45 languages. Behind the leader come James Palmer and Paul Overton. The oldest name on the list belongs to George Edgar Dennes, born in 1817, the newest to Nick Pope, born in 1992. For every 10,000 residents the town has 3.8, while at least half the towns in Cambridgeshire list nobody born there.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Nick Pope
in 45 Wikipedia languages
First
1817
George Edgar Dennes
Youngest
1992
Nick Pope
Most common field
Sports
2 people
What stands out about Soham’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Soham
Two of the three are athletes.
#1JP#2
Politics & Law
James Palmer
born 1969Former mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (born 1969)
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
PO#3
Through the years
When Soham’s famous people were born
The 1960s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Soham is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 2.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Soham
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Ely counts 45 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Soham
Who is the most famous person from Soham?
Nick Pope (English association football player (born 1992)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 45 languages. Next come James Palmer and Paul Overton.
How many famous people were born in Soham?
4 people born in Soham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Soham known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Soham?
George Edgar Dennes, born in 1817. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Soham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Soham’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)
- Nick Pope: Charltonkyle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Pearce: LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Ridley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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