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Sports
Stan Anderson
1933–2018English footballer and manager (1933–2018)
20 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Famous people · Horden, County Durham
Athletes stand out among the 18 famous people born in Horden
Stan Anderson, the English footballer and manager, is the most widely known, written about in 20 languages. In the 20th century, 15 were born, the most of any period. Fewer than a quarter of the 73 towns in County Durham with famous people list more. Over 110 years of births, the list goes from Billy Race (1896) to Tom Watson (2006).
Born here
18
notable people
Best known
Stan Anderson
in 20 Wikipedia languages
First
1896
Billy Race
Youngest
2006
Tom Watson
Most common field
Sports
15 people
What stands out about Horden’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Horden is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.7 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Horden
Stan Anderson, Tom Watson and Glenis Willmott are written about in 20, 12 and 11 languages.
#2Sports
Tom Watson
born 2006English association football player (born 2006)
12 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
#3Politics & Law
Glenis Willmott
born 1951British politician (born 1951)
11 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Horden’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1910s, with 4 people born in that decade.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Horden
15 more, from 1896 to 1986.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Seaham has the most on record, with 46.
Seaham · 5 miTerry Fenwick & 45 moreBUWingate · 3 miBarry Unsworth & 9 moreGMPeterlee · 1 miGina McKee & 6 moreKFBlackhall Colliery · 2 miKen Felton & 5 more
Wheatley Hill · 4 miEddie Hopkinson & 5 more
Haswell · 4 miTom Simpson & 4 moreTDSouth Hetton · 5 miTrevor Dance & 4 moreJAShotton Colliery · 3 miJim Appleby & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Horden
Who is the most famous person from Horden?
Stan Anderson (English footballer and manager (1933–2018)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 20 languages. Next come Tom Watson and Glenis Willmott.
How many famous people were born in Horden?
18 people born in Horden have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 19 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Horden known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 15 of the 18. That is 83% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Horden?
Billy Race, born in 1896. The youngest on the list was born in 2006.
Who counts as from Horden?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Horden’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 (7)
- Tom Watson: Timmy96, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glenis Willmott: User:Womera, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dale Roberts: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Alderson: TV episode screenshot (NBC), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- 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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