Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Startforth has made the famous people list yet
Just 1 mi away, Barnard Castle’s list holds 11 names, C. Northcote Parkinson the best known. The County Durham lists hold names for 73 towns. 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.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Startforth’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Startforth yet.
Famous people born near Startforth
The most names next door are in Barnard Castle: 11.
Questions about famous people from Startforth
Who counts as from Startforth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Startforth’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 (2)
- 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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