Tithe Barn · Photo: Mike Hanham · CC BY-SA 2.0Sydling St Nicholas has yet to put a famous person on the list
The neighbour with the longest list is Dorchester, 7 mi away: 56, led by Maurice Evans. Across Dorset, 40 towns list someone born there. The longest list in Dorset is Bournemouth’s, with 205 names. Poole has the second-longest list in Dorset, after Bournemouth, with 114.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Sydling St Nicholas’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Sydling St Nicholas yet.
Famous people born near Sydling St Nicholas
The most names next door are in Dorchester: 56.
Dorchester · 7 miMaurice Evans & 55 more
Sherborne · 11 miJames Bradley & 25 more
Bridport · 11 miFrederick Weld & 20 moreJABeaminster · 10 miJonah Ayunga & 5 moreMDCharminster · 5 miMalcolm Deas & 1 moreEBPuddletown · 8 miEdward Boswell & 1 more
Bradpole · 10 miWilliam Edward Forster
Milborne St Andrew · 11 miJohn MortonQuestions about famous people from Sydling St Nicholas
Who counts as from Sydling St Nicholas?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sydling St Nicholas’ 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)
- Maurice Evans: NBC Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Bradley: After Thomas Hudson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Weld: Herman John Schmidt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Edward Forster: Henry Tanworth Wells, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Morton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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