Photo: Andrew Hill · CC BY-SA 2.0Froggatt has yet to put a famous person on the list
For more famous names, Sheffield is 10 mi away: its list has 1,191, led by Joe Cocker. Across Derbyshire, 96 towns list someone born there. Derby has the most of any town in Derbyshire: 468. After Derby, the next longest list in Derbyshire is Chesterfield’s, with 197.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Froggatt’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Froggatt yet.
Famous people born near Froggatt
Sheffield leads the towns around it, with 1,191 names.
Sheffield · 10 miJoe Cocker & 1,190 more
Chesterfield · 9 miJohn Hurt & 196 more
Dronfield · 7 miGary Cahill & 9 more
Bakewell · 5 miIvor Grattan-Guinness & 8 more
Darley Dale · 8 miNigel Bond & 4 moreWPWingerworth · 10 miWilliam Pedley & 1 more
Calver · 1 miJohn Edmund BentleyVGBaslow · 2 miValerie Hunter GordonQuestions about famous people from Froggatt
Who counts as from Froggatt?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Froggatt’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)
- Joe Cocker: Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hurt: Walterlan Papetti, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Cahill: Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness: Renate Schmid, Copyright is with MFO, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, 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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