Photo: William · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Thornford has made the famous people list yet
Sarah Parish tops the 68 names on record in Yeovil, 4 mi away. No town in Dorset lists more than Bournemouth, with 205. After Bournemouth, the next longest list in Dorset is Poole’s, with 114. Across Dorset, the lists cover 40 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Thornford’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Thornford yet.
Famous people born near Thornford
Around it, Yeovil has the most people on record, 68 of them.
Sherborne · 3 miJames Bradley & 25 moreRBIlchester · 8 miRoger Bacon & 3 moreREMilborne Port · 5 miRobert Ensor & 1 moreSFTemplecombe · 8 miSteve Forshaw & 1 more
Stalbridge · 9 miRachel Lloyd & 1 more
Misterton · 10 miEllen Buckingham Mathews & 1 more
Martock · 10 miThomas Southwood Smith & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Thornford
Who counts as from Thornford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Thornford’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)
- James Bradley: After Thomas Hudson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachel Lloyd: Brooklyn Museum, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ellen Buckingham Mathews: Stanislaw Walery (1863 - 1935), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Southwood Smith: James Charles Armytage / After Margaret Gillies, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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