Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0Denby Common has no famous person on record yet
Of its neighbours, Heanor, 2 mi away, lists the most: 28, Henry Garnet first. The longest list in Derbyshire is Derby’s, with 468 names. Chesterfield has the second-longest list in Derbyshire, after Derby, with 197. Across Derbyshire, 96 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Denby Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Denby Common yet.
Famous people born near Denby Common
The neighbour with the most names is Heanor, at 28.
Heanor · 2 miHenry Garnet & 27 more
Belper · 4 miSuzy Kendall & 27 moreESSomercotes and Swanwick · 3 miErnald Scattergood & 13 more
Holbrook · 3 miNigel Hitchin & 5 moreJDIronville · 3 miJohn Davis & 3 more
Denby Bottles · 2 miJohn Flamsteed & 2 more
Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse · 2 miGeorge Porter & 1 more
Jacksdale and Westwood · 3 miNigel Mills & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Denby Common
Who counts as from Denby Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Denby Common’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 (6)
- Henry Garnet: anonymous, European School., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Suzy Kendall: Utente:Vabbè. Original uploader was Vabbè at Italian Wikipedia, 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
- Nigel Mills: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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