AP#1
Sports
Albert Pepperell
1922–1986English rugby league footballer (1922–1986)
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Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Seaton, Cumbria
Seaton is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Most widely known is Albert Pepperell, the English rugby league footballer, with an article in one language. Close behind are Russell Pepperell and Stanley Pepperell. Over 48 years of births, the list goes from Thomas Fletcher (1874) to Albert Pepperell (1922). Per 10,000 residents, the town has 7.9, close to the 10.4 of the typical Cumbria town.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Albert Pepperell
in 1 Wikipedia languages
First
1874
Thomas Fletcher
Youngest
1922
Albert Pepperell
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Seaton
The three best known are all athletes.
RP#2
Sports
Russell Pepperell
1918–2003English rugby union footballer, and rugby league footballer and coach
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SP#3
Sports
Stanley Pepperell
1914–1985English rugby league footballer (1914–1985)
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Through the years
When Seaton’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1910s, at 2.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Seaton
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Whitehaven has the most people on record, 91 of them.
Whitehaven · 9 miDean Henderson & 90 more
Workington · 2 miTom Iredale & 57 more
Cockermouth · 7 miWilliam Wordsworth & 24 more
Maryport · 4 miGlenn Murray & 22 moreBEGreat Broughton and Little Broughton · 4 miBrian Edgar & 2 moreAAFlimby · 2 miAlbert Atkinson & 1 moreAADearham · 4 miAlvin AckerleyJCDistington · 5 miJimmy CowenQuestions about famous people from Seaton
Who is the most famous person from Seaton?
Albert Pepperell (English rugby league footballer (1922–1986)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come Russell Pepperell and Stanley Pepperell.
How many famous people were born in Seaton?
4 people born in Seaton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Seaton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 4. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Seaton?
Thomas Fletcher, born in 1874. The youngest on the list was born in 1922.
Who counts as from Seaton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Seaton’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 (4)
- Dean Henderson: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- 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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