#1Famous people · Silloth, Cumbria
Silloth is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Most widely known is Cecil Leitch, the amateur golfer, with articles in 5 languages. Second and third on the list are Jim Brough and Dai Rees. Over 50 years of births, the list goes from Gabriel Hebert (1886) to Dai Rees (1936). Per head, the list is long: 15.7 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Cumbria has 10.4.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Cecil Leitch
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1886
Gabriel Hebert
Youngest
1936
Dai Rees
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Silloth
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1JB#2
Sports
Jim Brough
1903–1986English rugby union and association footballer, and rugby league footballer, and coach (1903-1986)
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
DR#3
Science & Medicine
Dai Rees
1936–2021British biochemist, science administrator
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Silloth’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1890s, at 1.
SportsScience & MedicineFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Silloth is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Silloth
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Silloth, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Silloth
Who is the most famous person from Silloth?
Cecil Leitch (amateur golfer (1891-1977)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Jim Brough and Dai Rees.
How many famous people were born in Silloth?
4 people born in Silloth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Silloth known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Silloth?
Gabriel Hebert, born in 1886. The youngest on the list was born in 1936.
Who counts as from Silloth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Silloth’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)
- Cecil Leitch: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Glenn Murray: Jamesboyes@Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugh Clapperton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.