Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Billy Row, Crook lists 22 famous people
No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Billy Row. Across County Durham, 73 towns list someone born there. Durham’s 225 names make the longest list in County Durham. 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 Billy Row’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Billy Row yet.
Famous people born near Billy Row
Nearby, Crook has the most on record, with 22.
Crook · 2 miJack Greenwell & 21 more
Spennymoor · 6 miJohn Bain & 17 more
Lanchester · 6 miDora Greenwell & 14 moreWAWillington · 3 miWilliam Ashurst & 10 moreGBBrandon · 5 miGeorge Bertram & 8 more
Ushaw Moor and Bearpark · 5 miSammy Crooks & 8 moreAAEsh Winning · 3 miAlf Agar & 7 moreAHTow Law · 3 miAlbert Ernest Hillary & 5 moreQuestions about famous people from Billy Row
Who counts as from Billy Row?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Billy Row’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)
- Jack Greenwell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bain: FlamingCow TV, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dora Greenwell: Roshni Ravi Prasad, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sammy Crooks: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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