Photo: Adrian Taylor · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Bothel has made the famous people list yet
The nearest list is in Cockermouth, 6 mi away: 25 names, starting with William Wordsworth. Across Cumbria, 54 towns list someone born there. The longest list of any town in Cumbria belongs to Carlisle, with 198. After Carlisle, the next longest list in Cumbria is Barrow-in-Furness’, with 131.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Bothel’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Bothel yet.
Famous people born near Bothel
Cockermouth leads the towns around it, with 25 names.
Cockermouth · 6 miWilliam Wordsworth & 24 more
Maryport · 9 miGlenn Murray & 22 more
Keswick · 11 miFrederic William Henry Myers & 12 moreWMWigton · 7 miWilliam Miller & 8 more
Silloth · 10 miCecil Leitch & 3 moreAPSeaton · 11 miAlbert Pepperell & 3 moreBEGreat Broughton and Little Broughton · 8 miBrian Edgar & 2 moreAAFlimby · 10 miAlbert Atkinson & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Bothel
Who counts as from Bothel?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bothel’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 (4)
- William Wordsworth: Benjamin Haydon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Glenn Murray: Jamesboyes@Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederic William Henry Myers: William Clarke Wontner, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Leitch: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.