Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Oaks Green yet, but Burton upon Trent next door has 169
Across Derbyshire, 96 towns list someone born there. The longest list in Derbyshire is Derby’s, with 468 names. After Derby, the next longest list in Derbyshire is Chesterfield’s, with 197. Burton upon Trent’s list is led by Paddy Considine.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Oaks Green’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Oaks Green yet.
Famous people born near Oaks Green
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Oaks Green, with how many people each has.
Burton upon Trent · 8 miPaddy Considine & 168 more
Uttoxeter · 5 miAdam Peaty & 11 moreCCRocester · 5 miColin Campbell & 5 moreJDTutbury · 4 miJohn Henry Davies & 3 more
Rolleston on Dove · 6 miRobert Sherborne & 1 more
Abbots Bromley · 7 miStephen Smith & 1 moreHMHilton · 6 miHerbert Massey
Mayfield · 8 miBertram Coghill Alan WindleQuestions about famous people from Oaks Green
Who counts as from Oaks Green?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Oaks Green’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)
- Paddy Considine: Miguel Discart, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Peaty: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Sherborne: Edwardx, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Smith: The photographer was H.J. Whitlock of Birmingham, who died in 1918., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bertram Coghill Alan Windle: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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