Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Yelling
No famous person’s birth in Yelling is on record yet. For more famous names, St Neots is 5 mi away: its list has 15, led by Jacob Hennessy. Cambridge’s 529 names make the longest list in Cambridgeshire. After Cambridge, the next longest list in Cambridgeshire is Peterborough’s, with 178.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Yelling’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Yelling yet.
Famous people born near Yelling
Of the towns around it, St Neots has the most on record: 15.
Questions about famous people from Yelling
Who counts as from Yelling?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Yelling’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)
- Jacob Hennessy: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Beach Thomas: George Charles Beresford, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Hamilton, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon: Joshua Reynolds, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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