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Famous people · Shotton Colliery, County Durham
Shotton Colliery is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Articles in 7 languages make the English footballer Jim Appleby the best known. The other is Tommy Miller, the English association football player. Of its neighbours, Horden, 3 mi away, lists the most: 18, Stan Anderson first. The earliest on the list is Jim Appleby, born in 1934, and the youngest Tommy Miller, born in 1979.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Jim Appleby
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1934
Jim Appleby
Youngest
1979
Tommy Miller
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Shotton Colliery
#2Sports
Tommy Miller
born 1979English association football player (born 1979)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Horden, with 18.
Questions about famous people from Shotton Colliery
Who is the most famous person from Shotton Colliery?
Jim Appleby (English footballer (1934-2014)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Tommy Miller.
How many famous people were born in Shotton Colliery?
2 people born in Shotton Colliery have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Shotton Colliery known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 2. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Shotton Colliery?
Jim Appleby, born in 1934. The youngest on the list was born in 1979.
Who counts as from Shotton Colliery?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Shotton Colliery’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)
- Tommy Miller: Nick from Chelmsford, Essex, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eddie Hopkinson: Eskil Malmberg, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Simpson: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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