Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Trimdon Colliery is on the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Wingate, 1 mi away: 10, led by Barry Unsworth. Famous people are on record for 73 of the towns in County Durham. Durham’s 225 names make the longest list in County Durham. 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 Trimdon Colliery’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Trimdon Colliery yet.
Famous people born near Trimdon Colliery
Around it, Wingate has the most people on record, 10 of them.
Wheatley Hill · 2 miEddie Hopkinson & 5 moreBETrimdon Grange · 1 miBill Edmunds & 4 more
Haswell · 4 miTom Simpson & 4 moreAMCoxhoe · 4 miAndy Mitchell & 3 more
Bishop Middleham · 4 miHenry Taylor & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Trimdon Colliery
Who counts as from Trimdon Colliery?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Trimdon 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)
- Eddie Hopkinson: Eskil Malmberg, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Simpson: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Taylor: Julia Margaret Cameron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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