Photo: Peter Stack · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Birchanger
No entry yet names Birchanger as a birthplace. Colchester’s 236 names make the longest list in Essex. After Colchester, the next longest list in Essex is Chelmsford’s, with 193. Of its neighbours, Bishop's Stortford, 2 mi away, lists the most: 50, Cecil John Rhodes first.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Birchanger’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Birchanger yet.
Famous people born near Birchanger
Around it, Bishop's Stortford has the most people on record, 50 of them.
Bishop's Stortford · 2 miCecil John Rhodes & 49 more
Sawbridgeworth · 5 miStephen Greif & 8 more
Great Dunmow · 7 miDaisy Dares You & 8 more
Hadham Cross · 6 miEdmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond & 4 more
Puckeridge and Standon · 7 miArthur Martin-Leake & 4 more
Stansted Mountfitchet · 1 miMunroe Bergdorf & 2 moreRFHenham · 4 miRobert FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter & 1 moreELNewport · 7 miErnest LongstaffeQuestions about famous people from Birchanger
Who counts as from Birchanger?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Birchanger’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 (6)
- Cecil John Rhodes: unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Greif: Stephen Greif, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daisy Dares You: aliceeedude from England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Martin-Leake: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Munroe Bergdorf: Hearst, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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