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Photo: Andrew Hill · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Ridgeway, Derbyshire
2 famous people call Ridgeway their birthplace
Articles in 4 languages make the footballer Mark Pearson the best known. The other is Norman Storer, the English speedway rider. A short trip away, Sheffield (4 mi) counts 1,191 famous people, Joe Cocker among them. Born in 1933, Norman Storer is the first name on record, and Mark Pearson, born in 1939, the most recent.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Mark Pearson
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1933
Norman Storer
Youngest
1939
Mark Pearson
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Ridgeway
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Sheffield’s, with 1,191.
Questions about famous people from Ridgeway
Who is the most famous person from Ridgeway?
Mark Pearson (footballer (born 1939)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Norman Storer.
How many famous people were born in Ridgeway?
2 people born in Ridgeway have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ridgeway known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 2. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ridgeway?
Norman Storer, born in 1933. The youngest on the list was born in 1939.
Who counts as from Ridgeway?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ridgeway’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)
- Joe Cocker: Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Spedding: Jean-Luc, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Cahill: Кирилл Венедиктов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul West: Liz Butler, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Hillyard: ChrisTheDude at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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