#1Famous people · Egglescliffe, County Durham
Egglescliffe is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Most widely known is Cec Parkin, the cricket player of England, with articles in 8 languages. Frank Middlemass and Kevan Smith follow. For its size the list is short: 3.9 for every 10,000 residents, against 12.7 in the typical County Durham town. From Cec Parkin in 1886 to Kevan Smith in 1959, the births cover 73 years.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Cec Parkin
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1886
Cec Parkin
Youngest
1959
Kevan Smith
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Egglescliffe
Cec Parkin, Frank Middlemass and Kevan Smith are written about in 8, 6 and 4 languages.
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Through the years
When Egglescliffe’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
SportsFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Egglescliffe is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Egglescliffe
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Middlesbrough: 365.
Middlesbrough · 6 miJames Cook & 364 more
Stockton-on-Tees · 4 miColin Renfrew & 218 more
Billingham · 7 miJamie Bell & 24 more
Stillington · 6 miAnthony Carlisle & 1 moreARStokesley · 7 miAlf Rowland & 1 moreNTIngleby Barwick · 2 miNathan ThomasTHMiddleton St George · 4 miTommy HallRHHutton Rudby · 6 miRusty HodgsonQuestions about famous people from Egglescliffe
Who is the most famous person from Egglescliffe?
Cec Parkin (cricket player of England. (1886-1943)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Frank Middlemass and Kevan Smith.
How many famous people were born in Egglescliffe?
4 people born in Egglescliffe have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Egglescliffe known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Egglescliffe?
Cec Parkin, born in 1886. The youngest on the list was born in 1959.
Who counts as from Egglescliffe?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Egglescliffe’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 (5)
- Cec Parkin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Cook: Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin Renfrew: Portable Antiquities Scheme from London, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Bell: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Carlisle: Henry Bone (6 Feb 1755-17 Dec 1834), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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