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Photo: Carol Rose · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Blackhall Colliery, County Durham
6 famous people from Blackhall Colliery, many of them athletes
Most widely known is Ken Felton, the English footballer, with articles in 5 languages. Stuart Young, the English cricketer, comes second, with John Wright third. In the 20th century, 5 were born, the most of any period. The list comes to 13.1 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in County Durham, at 12.7.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Ken Felton
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1916
John Wright
Youngest
1961
Shirley Congdon
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Blackhall Colliery’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Blackhall Colliery is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.7 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Blackhall Colliery
By how many languages cover them, Ken Felton comes first (5), then Stuart Young (4) and John Wright (2).
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Through the years
When Blackhall Colliery’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1930s come out on top, with 2 births.
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Blackhall Colliery
Here are 3 more, born from 1936 to 1961.
Shirley Congdon
born 1961Vice Chancellor of the University of Bradford (born 1961)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Blackhall Colliery, with how many people each has.
Hartlepool · 5 miJanick Gers & 169 moreSAHorden · 2 miStan Anderson & 17 moreBUWingate · 4 miBarry Unsworth & 9 moreGMPeterlee · 2 miGina McKee & 6 more
Wheatley Hill · 5 miEddie Hopkinson & 5 more
Haswell · 6 miTom Simpson & 4 moreBETrimdon Grange · 6 miBill Edmunds & 4 moreTDSouth Hetton · 6 miTrevor Dance & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Blackhall Colliery
Who is the most famous person from Blackhall Colliery?
Ken Felton (English footballer (born 1949)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Stuart Young and John Wright.
How many famous people were born in Blackhall Colliery?
6 people born in Blackhall Colliery have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Blackhall Colliery known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 6. That is 83% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Blackhall Colliery?
John Wright, born in 1916. The youngest on the list was born in 1961.
Who counts as from Blackhall Colliery?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Blackhall Colliery’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 (3)
- Janick Gers: Scott Penner, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eddie Hopkinson: Eskil Malmberg, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Simpson: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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