Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Pye Bridge has no famous person on record yet
For more famous names, Heanor is 4 mi away: its list has 28, led by Henry Garnet. The Derbyshire lists hold names for 96 towns. 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 Pye Bridge’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Pye Bridge yet.
Famous people born near Pye Bridge
The most names next door are in Heanor: 28.
Heanor · 4 miHenry Garnet & 27 moreABAlfreton · 2 miAlf Bentley & 16 moreESSomercotes and Swanwick · 1 miErnald Scattergood & 13 more
Huthwaite · 4 miAden Flint & 12 more
Newton and Blackwell · 4 miSophie Baggaley & 11 more
South Normanton and Pinxton · 2 miJedediah Strutt & 8 moreAJSelston · 2 miArthur Jepson & 7 moreJDIronville · 1 miJohn Davis & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Pye Bridge
Who counts as from Pye Bridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Pye Bridge’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 (4)
- Henry Garnet: anonymous, European School., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aden Flint: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sophie Baggaley: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jedediah Strutt: Joseph Wright of Derby, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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