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Terry Fenwick
born 1959English footballer and manager (born 1959)
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Famous people · Seaham, County Durham
46 famous people were born in Seaham, more of them athletes than in most towns
The best known is the English footballer and manager Terry Fenwick, with articles in 19 languages. The largest group, 27, was born in the 20th century. The earliest on the list is Robert Newell, born in 1835, and the youngest Andrew Appleby, born in 1985. For every 10,000 residents there are 21.2 on the list, well above the typical County Durham town’s 12.7.
Born here
46
notable people
Best known
Terry Fenwick
in 19 Wikipedia languages
First
1835
Robert Newell
Youngest
1985
Andrew Appleby
Most common field
Sports
40 people
What stands out about Seaham’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Seaham is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.8 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Seaham
Two of the three are athletes.
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Through the years
When Seaham’s famous people were born
The 1890s saw the most births of any decade: 11.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
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Everyone else born in Seaham
The other 43 span the years 1835 to 1985.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Sunderland · 5 miJordan Henderson & 494 more
Hetton-le-Hole · 4 miBob Paisley & 36 moreSAHorden · 5 miStan Anderson & 17 moreGMPeterlee · 5 miGina McKee & 6 moreTDSouth Hetton · 3 miTrevor Dance & 4 more
Haswell · 4 miTom Simpson & 4 moreJAShotton Colliery · 5 miJim Appleby & 1 moreGREast Rainton · 5 miGeorge RichardsonQuestions about famous people from Seaham
Who is the most famous person from Seaham?
Terry Fenwick (English footballer and manager (born 1959)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 19 languages. Next come Thomas Allen and George Holley.
How many famous people were born in Seaham?
46 people born in Seaham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 50 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Seaham known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 40 of the 46. That is 87% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Seaham?
Robert Newell, born in 1835. The youngest on the list was born in 1985.
Who counts as from Seaham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Seaham’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 (4)
- Terry Fenwick: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jordan Henderson: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Paisley: Eric The Fish, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Simpson: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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