Photo: Phil Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person yet from Bourton
Robert Newton tops the 13 names on record in Shaftesbury, 8 mi away. Across Dorset, 40 towns list someone born there. The longest list of any town in Dorset belongs to Bournemouth, with 205. After Bournemouth, the next longest list in Dorset is Poole’s, with 114.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Bourton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Bourton yet.
Famous people born near Bourton
Close by, Shaftesbury counts 13 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Shaftesbury · 8 miRobert Newton & 12 more
Castle Cary · 8 miJames Woodforde & 5 moreMBBruton · 6 miMichael Bennett & 4 more
Mere · 3 miIan Bone & 3 moreDHWincanton · 4 miDiana Hoddinott & 3 more
Gillingham · 3 miThomas Willmore & 1 moreSFTemplecombe · 7 miSteve Forshaw & 1 moreAAMarnhull · 7 miAdam Ayles & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Bourton
Who counts as from Bourton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bourton’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)
- Robert Newton: Trailer screenshot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Woodforde: Samuel Woodforde, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Bone: Leutha, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Willmore: Konrad Jacobs, Copyright is MFO, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
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