Photo: Hugh Mortimer · CC BY-SA 2.0Beaumont Hill has no famous person on record yet
James Morrison heads the list in Darlington, 2 mi away, which has 176 names. 73 of the towns in County Durham list at least one person. No town in County Durham lists more than Durham, with 225. After Durham, the next longest list in County Durham is Stockton-on-Tees’, with 219.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Beaumont Hill’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Beaumont Hill yet.
Famous people born near Beaumont Hill
The fullest list close by belongs to Darlington, with 176.
Darlington · 2 miJames Morrison & 175 moreBAShildon · 6 miBill Allison & 14 more
Sedgefield · 8 miMark Gatiss & 14 more
Newton Aycliffe · 4 miJason Steele & 7 moreHBCoundon and Leeholme · 8 miHarry Bruce & 3 moreCSHeighington · 4 miCharles Surtees & 2 moreDHHurworth-on-Tees · 5 miDon Harnby & 1 more
Stillington · 6 miAnthony Carlisle & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Beaumont Hill
Who counts as from Beaumont Hill?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Beaumont Hill’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 (4)
- James Morrison: Warwick Gastinger, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Gatiss: zeropuntosedici (Sara Zizza), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Steele: Jon Candy from Cardiff, Wales, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Carlisle: Henry Bone (6 Feb 1755-17 Dec 1834), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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