Photo: Mark Shirley downloaded by Victuallers · CC BY 2.0Ashover has no famous person on record yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Matlock, 3 mi away: 19, led by Keith Ellis. The longest list in Derbyshire is Derby’s, with 468 names. Chesterfield has the second-longest list in Derbyshire, after Derby, 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 Ashover’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ashover yet.
Famous people born near Ashover
Close by, the fullest list is Matlock’s, at 19 names.
Matlock · 3 miKeith Ellis & 18 more
Clay Cross · 3 miDennis Skinner & 9 more
Shirland and Stonebroom · 4 miNiamh Emerson & 5 moreGGPilsley and Lower Pilsley · 5 miGeorge Gregory & 5 more
Old Tupton · 3 miJohn Lowe & 4 morePBGrassmoor · 4 miPaul Burrell & 4 more
Darley Dale · 5 miNigel Bond & 4 moreJENorth Wingfield and Holmewood · 4 miJohn Eyre & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Ashover
Who counts as from Ashover?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ashover’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)
- Keith Ellis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dennis Skinner: Robin Hood, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Niamh Emerson: filip bossuyt from Kortrijk, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lowe: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Bond: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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