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Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Cornforth, County Durham
Cornforth is the birthplace of 3 famous people
Articles in 4 languages make the English footballer Tommy Duff the best known. Second place goes to the British speedway rider Jack Ormston, third to Arthur Sewell. Eric Gates heads the list in Ferryhill, 2 mi away, which has 22 names. The list runs from Tommy Duff, born in 1905, to Arthur Sewell, born in 1934.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Tommy Duff
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1905
Tommy Duff
Youngest
1934
Arthur Sewell
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Cornforth
Counted by languages, Tommy Duff is ahead of Jack Ormston and Arthur Sewell: 4, 2 and 1.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Ferryhill’s, at 22 names.
EGFerryhill · 2 miEric Gates & 21 more
Spennymoor · 3 miJohn Bain & 17 more
Sedgefield · 4 miMark Gatiss & 14 moreMDTrimdon · 3 miMalcolm Dawes & 9 moreBETrimdon Grange · 4 miBill Edmunds & 4 moreAMCoxhoe · 1 miAndy Mitchell & 3 more
Bishop Middleham · 2 miHenry Taylor & 2 morePWFishburn · 3 miPaul Ward & 1 more
Spennymoor · 3 miJohn Bain & 17 moreSedgefield · 4 miMark Gatiss & 14 moreMDTrimdon · 3 miMalcolm Dawes & 9 moreBETrimdon Grange · 4 miBill Edmunds & 4 moreAMCoxhoe · 1 miAndy Mitchell & 3 moreBishop Middleham · 2 miHenry Taylor & 2 morePWFishburn · 3 miPaul Ward & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Cornforth
Who is the most famous person from Cornforth?
Tommy Duff (English footballer (1905-1951)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Jack Ormston and Arthur Sewell.
How many famous people were born in Cornforth?
3 people born in Cornforth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Cornforth known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 3. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cornforth?
Tommy Duff, born in 1905. The youngest on the list was born in 1934.
Who counts as from Cornforth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cornforth’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)
- John Bain: FlamingCow TV, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Gatiss: zeropuntosedici (Sara Zizza), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Taylor: Julia Margaret Cameron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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