Photo: Derek Voller · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Piddlehinton, Weymouth lists 75 famous people
So far, no famous person on record was born in Piddlehinton. Famous people are on record for 40 of the towns in Dorset. Bournemouth’s 205 names make the longest list in Dorset. 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 Piddlehinton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Piddlehinton yet.
Famous people born near Piddlehinton
Of the towns around it, Weymouth has the most on record: 75.
Questions about famous people from Piddlehinton
Who counts as from Piddlehinton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Piddlehinton’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 (3)
- Henry Moseley: AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, W. F. Meggers Gallery of Nobel Laureates, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maurice Evans: NBC Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Morton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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