Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Sturminster Newton yet, but Blandford Forum next door has 23
Across Dorset, 40 towns list someone born there. No town in Dorset lists more than Bournemouth, with 205. After Bournemouth, the next longest list in Dorset is Poole’s, with 114. Blandford Forum’s list is led by Frederick Abberline.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Sturminster Newton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Sturminster Newton yet.
Famous people born near Sturminster Newton
Around it, Blandford Forum has the most people on record, 23 of them.
Blandford Forum · 8 miFrederick Abberline & 22 more
Shaftesbury · 7 miRobert Newton & 12 moreAAMarnhull · 3 miAdam Ayles & 1 more
Stalbridge · 4 miRachel Lloyd & 1 moreSFTemplecombe · 7 miSteve Forshaw & 1 more
Gillingham · 8 miThomas Willmore & 1 moreREMilborne Port · 8 miRobert Ensor & 1 more
Pimperne · 9 miRobert FramptonQuestions about famous people from Sturminster Newton
Who counts as from Sturminster Newton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sturminster Newton’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)
- Frederick Abberline: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Newton: Trailer screenshot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachel Lloyd: Brooklyn Museum, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Willmore: Konrad Jacobs, Copyright is MFO, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Frampton: Robert More, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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