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Bobby Robson
1933–2009English association football player and manager (1933-2009)
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Famous people · Sacriston, County Durham
6 famous people were born in Sacriston, more of them athletes than in most towns
Bobby Robson leads the list, covered in 62 languages. The British actress Wendy Craig ranks second, ahead of Charlie Dixon. 4 of them were born in the 20th century, more than in any other period. Over 73 years of births, the list goes from Jack Thomas (1890) to Paul Burn (1963).
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Bobby Robson
in 62 Wikipedia languages
First
1890
Jack Thomas
Youngest
1963
Paul Burn
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Sacriston’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Sacriston
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Known for
What Sacriston is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.7 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Sacriston’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1930s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sacriston
Another 3, 3 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Durham · 4 miAnthony Eden & 224 more
Chester-le-Street · 3 miBryan Robson & 54 moreLMStanley · 4 miLewis Miley & 34 more
Ushaw Moor and Bearpark · 3 miSammy Crooks & 8 moreGALangley Park · 2 miGeorge Ardley & 5 moreJBBurnhope · 3 miJames Barron & 2 moreBAGreat Lumley · 4 miBilly Askew & 2 moreMMWhitehill · 3 miMaurice McDermott & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Sacriston
Who is the most famous person from Sacriston?
Bobby Robson (English association football player and manager (1933-2009)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 62 languages. Next come Wendy Craig and Charlie Dixon.
How many famous people were born in Sacriston?
6 people born in Sacriston have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Sacriston known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 6. That is 83% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sacriston?
Jack Thomas, born in 1890. The youngest on the list was born in 1963.
Who counts as from Sacriston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sacriston’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)
- Bobby Robson: rockface from Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Walton: Thebees1889, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Eden: Walter Stoneman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bryan Robson: Government of Thailand, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sammy Crooks: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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