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Famous people · Flookburgh, Cumbria
2 famous people call Flookburgh their birthplace
The best known is the English footballer Colin Cowperthwaite, with articles in 5 languages. The other is Cedric Robinson, the queen's Guide to Morecambe Bay sands. Ulverston, 5 mi away, has 31 on its list, the best known Stan Laurel. The first birth on record is Cedric Robinson’s, in 1933, and the last Colin Cowperthwaite’s, in 1959.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Colin Cowperthwaite
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1933
Cedric Robinson
Youngest
1959
Colin Cowperthwaite
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Flookburgh
#2Politics & Law
Cedric Robinson
1933–2021Queen's Guide to Morecambe Bay sands (1933–2021)
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Known for
What Flookburgh is known for
1 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Ulverston has the longest list next door: 31.
Ulverston · 5 miStan Laurel & 30 more
Morecambe · 9 miPeter J. Ratcliffe & 30 more
Dalton-in-Furness · 9 miGeorge Romney & 6 moreJCGrange-over-Sands · 2 miJack Crayston & 3 moreCPCarnforth · 9 miCecil Parkinson & 3 more
Arnside · 6 miRosemary Grant & 2 more
Warton (Lancaster) · 9 miMatthew Hutton & 2 more
Milnthorpe · 9 miJohn TaylorQuestions about famous people from Flookburgh
Who is the most famous person from Flookburgh?
Colin Cowperthwaite (English footballer (born 1959)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Cedric Robinson.
How many famous people were born in Flookburgh?
2 people born in Flookburgh have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Flookburgh known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Flookburgh?
Cedric Robinson, born in 1933. The youngest on the list was born in 1959.
Who counts as from Flookburgh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Flookburgh’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 (7)
- Cedric Robinson: Bazonka, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stan Laurel: US Department of Agriculture, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter J. Ratcliffe: Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva., CC BY 2.5 ar, Wikimedia Commons
- George Romney: George Romney, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rosemary Grant: David Craig from Salem, Oregon, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Hutton: Francis Perry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Taylor: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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