#1Sports
Roger Hunt
1938–2021English associsation football player (1938-2021)
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Famous people · Glazebury, Cheshire
Roger Hunt is the only name on the Glazebury list
The English associsation football player Roger Hunt was born in 1938. That places their birth in the 20th century. Readers can find them written up in 40 languages. Nearby, Leigh, 2 mi away, lists 99, led by Nigel Short.
Born here
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notable people
Best known
Roger Hunt
in 40 Wikipedia languages
First
1938
Roger Hunt
Most common field
Sports
1 people
What stands out about Glazebury’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Glazebury
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Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Leigh has the most people on record, 99 of them.
Questions about famous people from Glazebury
Who is the most famous person from Glazebury?
Roger Hunt (English associsation football player (1938-2021)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 40 languages.
How many famous people were born in Glazebury?
1 people born in Glazebury have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Glazebury known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Glazebury?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Glazebury’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 (8)
- Roger Hunt: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Short: This photo was taken by Przemysław Jahr Autorem zdjęcia jest Przemysław Jahr Wykorzystując zdjęcie proszę podać jako autora: Przemysław Jahr / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keely Hodgkinson: Erik van Leeuwen, attribution: Erik van Leeuwen (bron: Wikipedia)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Davey Boy Smith: James, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ella Toone: James Boyes from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernest Tyldesley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Donald Adamson: RHaworth, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sean Anstee: Benjamin Wareing, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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