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Photo: Bill Henderson · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · South Hetton, County Durham
5 famous people were born in South Hetton from 1846 to 1974
Articles in 4 languages make the footballer Trevor Dance the best known. Second place goes to the English cricketer Allan Worthy, third to Fred Thompson. In the Victorian era, 3 were born, the most of any period. Trevor Dance was born in 1958.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Trevor Dance
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1846
William Hunting
Youngest
1974
Allan Worthy
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about South Hetton’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When South Hetton’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 1.
SportsScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in South Hetton
The three best known are all athletes.
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Known for
What South Hetton is known for
South Hetton has 1.6× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in South Hetton
Still to come: 2 more, from 1846 to 1886.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Seaham counts 46 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from South Hetton
Who is the most famous person from South Hetton?
Trevor Dance (footballer (born 1958)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Allan Worthy and Fred Thompson.
How many famous people were born in South Hetton?
5 people born in South Hetton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is South Hetton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 5. That is 80% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from South Hetton?
William Hunting, born in 1846. The youngest on the list was born in 1974.
Who counts as from South Hetton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside South Hetton’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)
- Terry Fenwick: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Paisley: Eric The Fish, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Simpson: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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