Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Chilton
Go 5 mi to Bishop Auckland and the list grows to 95, with Ross Turnbull at the top. Of the famous people on record, none was born in Chilton. The longest list in County Durham is Durham’s, with 225 names. 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 Chilton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Chilton yet.
Famous people born near Chilton
The most names next door are in Bishop Auckland: 95.
Bishop Auckland · 5 miRoss Turnbull & 94 moreEGFerryhill · 2 miEric Gates & 21 more
Spennymoor · 3 miJohn Bain & 17 moreBAShildon · 4 miBill Allison & 14 more
Sedgefield · 4 miMark Gatiss & 14 more
Newton Aycliffe · 3 miJason Steele & 7 moreHBCoundon and Leeholme · 3 miHarry Bruce & 3 moreAMCoxhoe · 4 miAndy Mitchell & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Chilton
Who counts as from Chilton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Chilton’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)
- Ross Turnbull: Ross_Turnbull_in_2009.jpg: p_a_h from United Kingdom derivative work: Ytoyoda, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bain: FlamingCow TV, CC BY 3.0, 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
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