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Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Ardleigh, Essex
The English footballer Nigel Crouch is the one famous person from Ardleigh
Nigel Crouch, the English footballer, was born in 1958. Their birth falls in the 20th century. 5 languages have an article about them. Just 4 mi away, Colchester’s list holds 236 names, Roger Penrose the best known.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Nigel Crouch
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1958
Nigel Crouch
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Ardleigh
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Colchester counts 236 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Ardleigh
Who is the most famous person from Ardleigh?
Nigel Crouch (English footballer (born 1958)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages.
How many famous people were born in Ardleigh?
1 people born in Ardleigh have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ardleigh known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Ardleigh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ardleigh’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)
- Roger Penrose: Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Martin-Harvey: Carl Vandyk, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Constable: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Watson: The Dunlap Society, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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