Photo: Robert Graham · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Tanfield Lea
Not one famous person on record comes from Tanfield Lea yet. Stanley, 1 mi off, can claim 35 famous people, the best known Lewis Miley. No town in County Durham lists more than 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 Tanfield Lea’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Tanfield Lea yet.
Famous people born near Tanfield Lea
Around it, Stanley has the most people on record, 35 of them.
Annfield Plain · 2 miAlun Armstrong & 10 more
Rowlands Gill · 3 miChris Ryan & 8 more
Burnopfield · 2 miEddie Chapman & 6 moreBCLeadgate · 4 miBenny Craig & 5 moreJCDipton · 2 miJohn Craggs & 4 moreJCMedomsley · 4 miJohn Charles & 3 moreJBBurnhope · 4 miJames Barron & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Tanfield Lea
Who counts as from Tanfield Lea?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tanfield Lea’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)
- Alun Armstrong: Garry Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Ryan: James English, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eddie Chapman: Unknown British photographer., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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