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Ivor Grattan-Guinness
1941–2014Historian of mathematics and logic (1941-2014)
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Famous people · Bakewell, Derbyshire
Of the 9 famous people born in Bakewell, an unusual share are athletes
At the top of the list is the historian of mathematics and logic Ivor Grattan-Guinness, covered in 17 languages. Most were born in the 20th century: 6 of them. Over 257 years of births, the list goes from Thomas Denman (1733) to Annie Last (1990). Fewer than a quarter of the 96 towns in Derbyshire with famous people list more.
Born here
9
notable people
Best known
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
in 17 Wikipedia languages
First
1733
Thomas Denman
Youngest
1990
Annie Last
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Bakewell’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Bakewell is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Bakewell
Ivor Grattan-Guinness has articles in 17 languages, Annie Last in 14 and Dave Metchick in 5.
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Through the years
When Bakewell’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1940s, with 2 people born in that decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bakewell
6 more names, born between 1733 and 1932.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Matlock’s, with 19.
Questions about famous people from Bakewell
Who is the most famous person from Bakewell?
Ivor Grattan-Guinness (historian of mathematics and logic (1941-2014)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 17 languages. Next come Annie Last and Dave Metchick.
How many famous people were born in Bakewell?
9 people born in Bakewell have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 10 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bakewell known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 7 of the 9. That is 78% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bakewell?
Thomas Denman, born in 1733. The youngest on the list was born in 1990.
Who counts as from Bakewell?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bakewell’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 (7)
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness: Renate Schmid, Copyright is with MFO, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- Annie Last: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Ellis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lawrence Beesley: Central News And Illustrations Bureau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Turner: Keene studio, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Bond: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Edmund Bentley: Francis Marshall (book), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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