Photo: John Holmes · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Great Clifton is on the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Workington is 3 mi away: its list has 58, led by Tom Iredale. Across Cumbria, 54 towns list someone born there. No town in Cumbria lists more than Carlisle, with 198. Barrow-in-Furness has the second-longest list in Cumbria, after Carlisle, with 131.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Great Clifton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Great Clifton yet.
Famous people born near Great Clifton
Of the towns around it, Workington has the most on record: 58.
Workington · 3 miTom Iredale & 57 more
Cockermouth · 5 miWilliam Wordsworth & 24 more
Maryport · 4 miGlenn Murray & 22 moreAPSeaton · 2 miAlbert Pepperell & 3 moreBEGreat Broughton and Little Broughton · 2 miBrian Edgar & 2 moreAAFlimby · 3 miAlbert Atkinson & 1 moreAADearham · 4 miAlvin AckerleyJCDistington · 4 miJimmy CowenQuestions about famous people from Great Clifton
Who counts as from Great Clifton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Great Clifton’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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