Photo: Chris Downer · CC BY-SA 2.0West Knighton has yet to put a famous person on the list
Weymouth, 6 mi away, has 75 on its list, the best known Henry Moseley. 40 towns across Dorset can name a famous person 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 West Knighton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in West Knighton yet.
Famous people born near West Knighton
The fullest list close by belongs to Weymouth, with 75.
Questions about famous people from West Knighton
Who counts as from West Knighton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside West Knighton’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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