Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person yet from Doveridge
Just 2 mi away, Uttoxeter’s list holds 12 names, Adam Peaty the best known. Derby has the most of any town in Derbyshire: 468. After Derby, the next longest list in Derbyshire is Chesterfield’s, with 197. In all of Derbyshire, the famous people on record come from 96 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Doveridge’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Doveridge yet.
Famous people born near Doveridge
Of the towns nearby, Uttoxeter lists the most people: 12.
Uttoxeter · 2 miAdam Peaty & 11 more
Cheadle · 9 miMary Adela Blagg & 7 moreCCRocester · 3 miColin Campbell & 5 moreJDTutbury · 7 miJohn Henry Davies & 3 more
Abbots Bromley · 6 miStephen Smith & 1 more
Rolleston on Dove · 8 miRobert Sherborne & 1 more
Mayfield · 7 miBertram Coghill Alan WindleHMHilton · 8 miHerbert MasseyQuestions about famous people from Doveridge
Who counts as from Doveridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Doveridge’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)
- Adam Peaty: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Adela Blagg: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Smith: The photographer was H.J. Whitlock of Birmingham, who died in 1918., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Sherborne: Edwardx, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bertram Coghill Alan Windle: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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