Photo: Alan Fleming · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Charlesworth has made the famous people list yet
Hilary Mantel heads the list in Glossop, 2 mi away, which has 39 names. 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. In Derbyshire, 96 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Charlesworth’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Charlesworth yet.
Famous people born near Charlesworth
The longest list nearby is Glossop’s, with 39.
Questions about famous people from Charlesworth
Who counts as from Charlesworth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Charlesworth’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)
- Lee Martin: Stew jones, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Holding: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Brooks: Hotel de France, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Vivienne Westwood: Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mabel Hardie: unknown - Mabel Hardie in 1887 or 1888, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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