#1Famous people · Neston, Cheshire
Neston counts 10 famous people, first among them Tim Hunt
With articles in 50 languages, Tim Hunt is the most widely known. 8 of them were born in the 20th century, more than in any other period. The first birth on record is Christopher Bushell’s, in 1887, and the last Patrick Wormald’s, in 1947. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 6.7, close to the 5.4 of the typical Cheshire town.
Born here
10
notable people
Best known
Tim Hunt
in 50 Wikipedia languages
First
1887
Christopher Bushell
Youngest
1947
Patrick Wormald
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Neston’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Neston
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Through the years
When Neston’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 2.
SportsWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineMilitaryNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Neston is known for
5 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Neston
The rest number 7, with 3 athletes among them.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Birkenhead · 6 miGlenda Jackson & 333 more
Bebington · 4 miLottie Dod & 81 more
Ellesmere Port · 6 miJoe Mercer & 38 more
Heswall · 4 miJohn Peel & 17 moreRHFlint · 5 miRon Hewitt & 13 moreBMConnah's Quay · 5 miBarry Metcalf & 10 moreSHShotton · 6 miSylvia Heal & 3 moreBJBagillt · 5 miBryn Jones & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Neston
Who is the most famous person from Neston?
Tim Hunt (biochemist; Nobel laureate) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 50 languages. Next come Samuel Abel and Sam Wynne.
How many famous people were born in Neston?
10 people born in Neston have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 12 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Neston known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 10. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Neston?
Christopher Bushell, born in 1887. The youngest on the list was born in 1947.
Who counts as from Neston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Neston’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 (7)
- Tim Hunt: Machmit (Machmit), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Bushell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Janet Okell: Royal Navy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Glenda Jackson: Studio Publicity, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lottie Dod: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Mercer: Dr. David France, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Peel: JP_BBC.jpg: Arno Matthias derivative work: January, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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