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Photo: Mike Faherty · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Longtown, Cumbria
2 famous people were born in Longtown from 1779 to 1958
Simon Greenall, the British actor, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. The list has one more: the British Colonial office agent and expert Thomas Moody. Just 8 mi away, Carlisle’s list holds 198 names, Grant Holt the best known. No town in Cumbria lists more than Carlisle, with 198.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Simon Greenall
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1779
Thomas Moody
Youngest
1958
Simon Greenall
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 people
The best known
Born in Longtown
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Science & Medicine
Thomas Moody
1779–1849British Colonial office agent and expert
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Known for
What Longtown is known for
Film, TV & Stage leads the fields, with 1 people.
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
The neighbour with the most names is Carlisle, at 198.
Questions about famous people from Longtown
Who is the most famous person from Longtown?
Simon Greenall (British actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Thomas Moody.
How many famous people were born in Longtown?
2 people born in Longtown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Longtown known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Longtown?
Thomas Moody, born in 1779. The youngest on the list was born in 1958.
Who counts as from Longtown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Longtown’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)
- Grant Holt: Jon Candy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugh Clapperton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Darwin Shaw: SilentKisses1, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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