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Photo: Roger Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Trimdon Grange, County Durham
Trimdon Grange is the birthplace of 5 famous people
Bill Edmunds, the English footballer, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. Second and third on the list are George Bradshaw and Ted Owens. 4 of them were born in the 20th century, more than in any other period. The list runs from Bill Edmunds, born in 1898, to Ted Owens, born in 1913.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Bill Edmunds
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1898
Bill Edmunds
Youngest
1913
Ted Owens
Most common field
Sports
5 people
The best known
Born in Trimdon Grange
All three are athletes.
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Through the years
When Trimdon Grange’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1900s, with 3 people born in that decade.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Trimdon Grange
2 more names, born between 1905 and 1909.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Sedgefield leads the towns around it, with 15 names.
Sedgefield · 4 miMark Gatiss & 14 moreMDTrimdon · 1 miMalcolm Dawes & 9 moreBUWingate · 2 miBarry Unsworth & 9 more
Wheatley Hill · 2 miEddie Hopkinson & 5 moreAMCoxhoe · 3 miAndy Mitchell & 3 more
Bishop Middleham · 3 miHenry Taylor & 2 moreTDCornforth · 4 miTommy Duff & 2 morePWFishburn · 2 miPaul Ward & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Trimdon Grange
Who is the most famous person from Trimdon Grange?
Bill Edmunds (English footballer (1898-1964)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come George Bradshaw and Ted Owens.
How many famous people were born in Trimdon Grange?
5 people born in Trimdon Grange have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Trimdon Grange known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 5. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Trimdon Grange?
Bill Edmunds, born in 1898. The youngest on the list was born in 1913.
Who counts as from Trimdon Grange?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Trimdon Grange’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)
- Mark Gatiss: zeropuntosedici (Sara Zizza), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eddie Hopkinson: Eskil Malmberg, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Taylor: Julia Margaret Cameron, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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