Photo: Roger Temple · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Unstone Green has made the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Sheffield, 6 mi away: 1,191, led by Joe Cocker. Derby’s 468 names make the longest list in Derbyshire. After Derby, the next longest list in Derbyshire is Chesterfield’s, with 197. The Derbyshire lists hold names for 96 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Unstone Green’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Unstone Green yet.
Famous people born near Unstone Green
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Unstone Green, with how many people each has.
Sheffield · 6 miJoe Cocker & 1,190 more
Chesterfield · 3 miJohn Hurt & 196 more
Staveley · 4 miChris Spedding & 19 moreJPBrimington · 3 miJoe Payne & 14 more
Dronfield · 2 miGary Cahill & 9 more
Eckington · 3 miPaul West & 6 moreAGKillamarsh · 6 miArthur Groves & 5 morePBGrassmoor · 6 miPaul Burrell & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Unstone Green
Who counts as from Unstone Green?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Unstone 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)
- Joe Cocker: Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hurt: Walterlan Papetti, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
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