PE#1
Sports
Peter Ellson
1925–2014English professional footballer (1925-2014)
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Photo: Christopher Hilton · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Audlem, Cheshire
3 famous people call Audlem their birthplace
Peter Ellson, the English professional footballer, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. The next two names are Alice E. Gillington and May Byron. The neighbour with the longest list is Crewe, 8 mi away: 111, led by Nick Powell. Over 64 years of births, the list goes from May Byron (1861) to Peter Ellson (1925).
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Peter Ellson
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1861
May Byron
Youngest
1925
Peter Ellson
Most common field
Writing & Arts
2 people
The best known
Born in Audlem
Two of the three are writers and artists.
AG#2
Writing & Arts
Alice E. Gillington
1863–1934British writer and poet, journalist and anthropologist
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
MB#3
Known for
What Audlem is known for
Writing & Arts leads the fields, with 2 people.
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
The longest list nearby is Crewe’s, with 111.
Questions about famous people from Audlem
Who is the most famous person from Audlem?
Peter Ellson (English professional footballer (1925-2014)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Alice E. Gillington and May Byron.
How many famous people were born in Audlem?
3 people born in Audlem have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Audlem known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 12% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Audlem?
May Byron, born in 1861. The youngest on the list was born in 1925.
Who counts as from Audlem?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Audlem’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 (5)
- Nick Powell: Geoffrey Chisnall, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ashley Westwood: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward German: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lewis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Smith: EchetusXe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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