Photo: Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. · CC BY-SA 3.0Next door to Gamesley, Glossop lists 39 famous people
Not one famous person on record comes from Gamesley yet. Famous people are on record for 96 of the towns in Derbyshire. The longest list of any town in Derbyshire belongs to Derby, with 468. Chesterfield has the second-longest list in Derbyshire, after Derby, with 197.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Gamesley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Gamesley yet.
Famous people born near Gamesley
The longest list nearby is Glossop’s, with 39.
Hyde · 4 miLee Martin & 28 more
Stalybridge · 4 miRob Holding & 22 more
Dukinfield · 4 miTony Brooks & 13 more
Hadfield · 1 miVivienne Westwood & 10 more
Bredbury and Woodley · 5 miRichard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley & 7 moreGTRomiley · 5 miGeorge Thornewell & 6 more
Marple · 5 miMabel Hardie & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Gamesley
Who counts as from Gamesley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gamesley’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)
- 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
- Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mabel Hardie: unknown - Mabel Hardie in 1887 or 1888, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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