Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0Castleside has no famous person on record yet
Just 2 mi away, Consett’s list holds 77 names, Rowan Atkinson the best known. 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. 73 of the towns in County Durham list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Castleside’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Castleside yet.
Famous people born near Castleside
Close by, Consett counts 77 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Consett · 2 miRowan Atkinson & 76 more
Lanchester · 5 miDora Greenwell & 14 moreRCChopwell · 6 miRonnie Cairns & 12 more
Annfield Plain · 6 miAlun Armstrong & 10 moreBCLeadgate · 3 miBenny Craig & 5 moreAHTow Law · 7 miAlbert Ernest Hillary & 5 moreJCDipton · 6 miJohn Craggs & 4 moreJCMedomsley · 4 miJohn Charles & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Castleside
Who counts as from Castleside?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Castleside’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)
- Rowan Atkinson: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dora Greenwell: Roshni Ravi Prasad, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alun Armstrong: Garry Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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