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Photo: Andrew Tryon · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Youlgreave, Derbyshire
2 famous people call Youlgreave their birthplace
At the top of the list is the English footballer Joseph Birds, covered in 4 languages. The only other name is the chief of the SIS Maurice Oldfield. Matlock, 6 mi off, can claim 19 famous people, the best known Keith Ellis. The first birth on record is Joseph Birds’, in 1887, and the last Maurice Oldfield’s, in 1915.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Joseph Birds
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1887
Joseph Birds
Youngest
1915
Maurice Oldfield
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Youlgreave
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Known for
What Youlgreave is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Matlock: 19.
Matlock · 6 miKeith Ellis & 18 more
Wirksworth · 8 miLawrence Beesley & 9 more
Bakewell · 3 miIvor Grattan-Guinness & 8 more
Cromford · 7 miGeorge Turner & 5 more
Darley Dale · 4 miNigel Bond & 4 moreFSCrich · 11 miFrank Shacklock & 1 moreVGBaslow · 6 miValerie Hunter Gordon
Calver · 7 miJohn Edmund BentleyQuestions about famous people from Youlgreave
Who is the most famous person from Youlgreave?
Joseph Birds (English footballer (1887-1966)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Maurice Oldfield.
How many famous people were born in Youlgreave?
2 people born in Youlgreave have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Youlgreave known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Youlgreave?
Joseph Birds, born in 1887. The youngest on the list was born in 1915.
Who counts as from Youlgreave?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Youlgreave’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)
- Keith Ellis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lawrence Beesley: Central News And Illustrations Bureau, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness: Renate Schmid, Copyright is with MFO, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- George Turner: Keene studio, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Bond: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Edmund Bentley: Francis Marshall (book), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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