Photo: Dave Bevis · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Ambergate is on the famous people list yet
Belper, 2 mi away, has 28 on its list, the best known Suzy Kendall. The longest list of any town in Derbyshire belongs to Derby, with 468. After Derby, the next longest list in Derbyshire is Chesterfield’s, with 197. 96 towns in Derbyshire have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ambergate’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ambergate yet.
Famous people born near Ambergate
The longest list nearby is Belper’s, with 28.
Belper · 2 miSuzy Kendall & 27 moreABAlfreton · 4 miAlf Bentley & 16 moreESSomercotes and Swanwick · 4 miErnald Scattergood & 13 more
Wirksworth · 5 miLawrence Beesley & 9 more
Holbrook · 4 miNigel Hitchin & 5 more
Denby Bottles · 3 miJohn Flamsteed & 2 moreFSCrich · 2 miFrank Shacklock & 1 more
Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse · 4 miGeorge Porter & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Ambergate
Who counts as from Ambergate?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ambergate’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 (5)
- Suzy Kendall: Utente:Vabbè. Original uploader was Vabbè at Italian Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lawrence Beesley: Central News And Illustrations Bureau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Hitchin: Renate Schmid, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- John Flamsteed: Thomas Gibson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Porter: Photo by E Hawkins of Brighton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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