Photo: Malcolm Neal · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Staindrop is listed yet
Of its neighbours, Bishop Auckland, 7 mi away, lists the most: 95, Ross Turnbull first. The longest list of any town in County Durham belongs to Durham, with 225. After Durham, the next longest list in County Durham is Stockton-on-Tees’, with 219. The County Durham lists hold names for 73 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Staindrop’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Staindrop yet.
Famous people born near Staindrop
Around it, Bishop Auckland has the most people on record, 95 of them.
Bishop Auckland · 7 miRoss Turnbull & 94 moreBAShildon · 7 miBill Allison & 14 more
Barnard Castle · 5 miC. Northcote Parkinson & 10 more
Cockfield · 2 miJeremiah Dixon & 6 moreTAWest Auckland · 5 miTom Alderson & 6 moreHBCoundon and Leeholme · 9 miHarry Bruce & 3 moreCSHeighington · 8 miCharles Surtees & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Staindrop
Who counts as from Staindrop?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Staindrop’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
- C. Northcote Parkinson: Wim van Rossem for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremiah Dixon: Illustrator unknown; published by Ginn and Company., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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