#1Famous people · St Bees, Cumbria
St Bees counts 3 famous people, first among them Edmund Grindal
At the top of the list is the archbishop of Canterbury Edmund Grindal, covered in 15 languages. Second place goes to the officer in the British army John Hawkesworth, third to Percy Graham Harris. The neighbour with the longest list is Whitehaven, 4 mi away: 91, led by Dean Henderson. The first birth on record is Edmund Grindal’s, in 1519, and the last Percy Graham Harris’, in 1894.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Edmund Grindal
in 15 Wikipedia languages
First
1519
Edmund Grindal
Youngest
1894
Percy Graham Harris
Most common field
Faith
1 people
The best known
Born in St Bees
Counted by languages, Edmund Grindal is ahead of John Hawkesworth and Percy Graham Harris: 15, 9 and 3.
#1
#2Military
John Hawkesworth
1893–1945Officer in the British Army (1893-1945)
9 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
PH#3
Science & Medicine
Percy Graham Harris
1894–1945Anthropologist and British colonial administrator in Nigeria
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What St Bees is known for
Faith 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 best known from each town within 12 miles of St Bees, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from St Bees
Who is the most famous person from St Bees?
Edmund Grindal (archbishop of Canterbury) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 15 languages. Next come John Hawkesworth and Percy Graham Harris.
How many famous people were born in St Bees?
3 people born in St Bees have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is St Bees known for?
Among its famous people, ministers and preachers: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 2% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from St Bees?
Edmund Grindal, born in 1519. The youngest on the list was born in 1894.
Who counts as from St Bees?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside St Bees’ 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 (6)
- Edmund Grindal: Attributed to Dirk Vos / Follower of Dirk Vos, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hawkesworth: Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dean Henderson: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Iredale: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lawrence Arthur Colley Panton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Trudy Harrison: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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