Photo: Jim Barton · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Longniddry is on the famous people list yet
Henry Yule heads the list in Musselburgh, 6 mi away, which has 71 names. The East Lothian lists hold names for 10 towns. The longest list of any town in East Lothian belongs to Musselburgh, with 71. After Musselburgh, the next longest list in East Lothian is Haddington’s, with 25.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Longniddry’s locality and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Longniddry yet.
Famous people born near Longniddry
Close by, the fullest list is Musselburgh’s, at 71 names.
Musselburgh · 6 miHenry Yule & 70 more
Dalkeith · 8 miPeter Guthrie Tait & 32 more
Haddington · 5 miJohn Knox & 24 more
North Berwick · 9 miWillie Anderson & 20 more
Tranent · 3 miGelie Duncan & 10 more
Mayfield · 9 miBilly Ritchie & 9 more
Wallyford · 5 miMargaret Oliphant & 5 moreJDCockenzie · 2 miJohn Dalgleish Donaldson & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Longniddry
Who counts as from Longniddry?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Longniddry’s locality (the NRS 2022 locality 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 National Records of Scotland’s Census 2022 locality boundaries (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 (7)
- Henry Yule: Theodore Blake Wirgman, c. 1890, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Guthrie Tait: George Reid, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Knox: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Willie Anderson: "Westward Ho!" of American Golfer, Inc., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gelie Duncan: Carolyn Sutton, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Ritchie: Behrens, Herbert / Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Oliphant: No photo credit, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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