Hunwick Hall North West and North East Ranges · Photo: Ataffo · CC BY-SA 4.0Hunwick has no famous person on record yet
Within 3 mi, Bishop Auckland lists the most: 95, with Ross Turnbull first. Durham’s 225 names make the longest list in County Durham. After Durham, the next longest list in County Durham is Stockton-on-Tees’, with 219. 73 towns across County Durham can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hunwick’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hunwick yet.
Famous people born near Hunwick
Around it, Bishop Auckland has the most people on record, 95 of them.
Bishop Auckland · 3 miRoss Turnbull & 94 more
Crook · 2 miJack Greenwell & 21 more
Spennymoor · 4 miJohn Bain & 17 moreBAShildon · 5 miBill Allison & 14 moreWAWillington · 2 miWilliam Ashurst & 10 moreGBBrandon · 5 miGeorge Bertram & 8 moreAAEsh Winning · 6 miAlf Agar & 7 moreTAWest Auckland · 4 miTom Alderson & 6 moreQuestions about famous people from Hunwick
Who counts as from Hunwick?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hunwick’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)
- Ross Turnbull: Ross_Turnbull_in_2009.jpg: p_a_h from United Kingdom derivative work: Ytoyoda, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Greenwell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bain: FlamingCow TV, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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