Photo: Peter McDermott · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Great Urswick is on the famous people list yet
The nearest list is in Barrow-in-Furness, 5 mi away: 131 names, starting with Emlyn Hughes. Carlisle has the most of any town in Cumbria: 198. Across Cumbria, 54 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Great Urswick’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Great Urswick yet.
Famous people born near Great Urswick
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Great Urswick, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Great Urswick
Who counts as from Great Urswick?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Great Urswick’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 (5)
- Emlyn Hughes: Comet Photo AG (Zürich), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stan Laurel: US Department of Agriculture, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John A. Agnew: Sophsommer, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
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