Photo: Graham Robson · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Hawkshead, Kendal lists 73 famous people
The list for Hawkshead is empty for now. The Cumbria lists hold names for 54 towns. No town in Cumbria lists more than 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 Hawkshead’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Hawkshead as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Hawkshead
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Hawkshead, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Hawkshead
Who counts as from Hawkshead?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hawkshead’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 (2)
- Arthur Eddington: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- G. M. B. Dobson: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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