Photo: Bikeboy · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Broadley Common
Harlow, 2 mi away, has 106 on its list, the best known Victoria Beckham. No famous person on record lists Broadley Common as their birthplace yet. Famous people are on record for 86 of the towns in Essex. The longest list in Essex is Colchester’s, with 236 names.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Broadley Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Broadley Common yet.
Famous people born near Broadley Common
Nearby, Harlow has the most on record, with 106.
Harlow · 2 miVictoria Beckham & 105 more
Epping · 4 miPhilip Hammond & 48 more
Hoddesdon · 3 miElizabeth Maconchy & 27 moreCOWaltham Abbey · 5 miConnor Ogilvie & 10 moreTBGreat Amwell · 5 miTimothy Bevington & 1 more
Roydon · 2 miRalph H. FowlerBBStanstead Abbotts · 4 miBrian Brett
Hertford Heath · 5 miNick MallettQuestions about famous people from Broadley Common
Who counts as from Broadley Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Broadley Common’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 (5)
- Victoria Beckham: Owl Bridge Media, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Hammond: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Maconchy: This work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. This is because it is one of the following: It is a photograph taken prior to 1 June 1957; or It was published prior to 197…, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph H. Fowler: Denizrex1, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Mallett: Massimiliano Calamelli, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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