Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people near Bradwell: 31 in Braintree
No entry yet names Bradwell as a birthplace. Colchester has the most of any town in Essex: 236. After Colchester, the next longest list in Essex is Chelmsford’s, with 193. The Essex lists hold names for 86 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Bradwell’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Bradwell yet.
Famous people born near Bradwell
The longest list nearby is Braintree’s, with 31.
Braintree · 3 miLiam Howlett & 30 more
Witham · 5 miOlly Murs & 14 more
Halstead · 5 miAgnes Morton & 8 more
Kelvedon and Feering · 4 miCharles Spurgeon & 4 more
Coggeshall · 3 miWilliam Unwin & 1 more
Black Notley · 3 miJohn Ray & 1 more
Earls Colne · 5 miThomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden & 1 moreECGosfield · 4 miElizabeth CourtauldQuestions about famous people from Bradwell
Who counts as from Bradwell?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bradwell’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 (7)
- Liam Howlett: aliina s., CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Olly Murs: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Agnes Morton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Spurgeon: Alexander Melville, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Unwin: Unknown photographer of the time, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Ray: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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