Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Easington, Seaham lists 46 famous people
The list for Easington is empty for now. Durham has the most of any town in County Durham: 225. After Durham, the next longest list in County Durham is Stockton-on-Tees’, with 219. 73 towns in County Durham have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Easington’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Easington yet.
Famous people born near Easington
Around it, Seaham has the most people on record, 46 of them.
Seaham · 4 miTerry Fenwick & 45 moreSAHorden · 2 miStan Anderson & 17 moreBUWingate · 4 miBarry Unsworth & 9 moreGMPeterlee · 2 miGina McKee & 6 moreKFBlackhall Colliery · 3 miKen Felton & 5 more
Wheatley Hill · 4 miEddie Hopkinson & 5 moreTDSouth Hetton · 3 miTrevor Dance & 4 more
Haswell · 3 miTom Simpson & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Easington
Who counts as from Easington?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Easington’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)
- Terry Fenwick: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eddie Hopkinson: Eskil Malmberg, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Simpson: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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