Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0Brigham has no famous person on record yet
Workington, 5 mi off, can claim 58 famous people, the best known Tom Iredale. In Cumbria, 54 towns have someone on the list. 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 Brigham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Brigham yet.
Famous people born near Brigham
The neighbour with the most names is Workington, at 58.
Workington · 5 miTom Iredale & 57 more
Cockermouth · 2 miWilliam Wordsworth & 24 more
Maryport · 4 miGlenn Murray & 22 moreAPSeaton · 4 miAlbert Pepperell & 3 moreBEGreat Broughton and Little Broughton · 1 miBrian Edgar & 2 moreAAFlimby · 4 miAlbert Atkinson & 1 moreAADearham · 3 miAlvin AckerleyJCDistington · 6 miJimmy CowenQuestions about famous people from Brigham
Who counts as from Brigham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Brigham’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)
- Tom Iredale: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Wordsworth: Benjamin Haydon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Glenn Murray: Jamesboyes@Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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