Photo: John Sutton · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Clavering has made the famous people list yet
Cecil John Rhodes tops the 50 names on record in Bishop's Stortford, 7 mi away. No town in Essex lists more than Colchester, with 236. After Colchester, the next longest list in Essex is Chelmsford’s, with 193. Across Essex, 86 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Clavering’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Clavering yet.
Famous people born near Clavering
The neighbour with the most names is Bishop's Stortford, at 50.
Bishop's Stortford · 7 miCecil John Rhodes & 49 moreWSSaffron Walden · 6 miWilliam Strachey & 23 more
Puckeridge and Standon · 8 miArthur Martin-Leake & 4 more
Hadham Cross · 9 miEdmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond & 4 more
Thaxted · 9 miSamuel Purchas & 3 more
Stansted Mountfitchet · 5 miMunroe Bergdorf & 2 moreRFHenham · 5 miRobert FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter & 1 moreELNewport · 3 miErnest LongstaffeQuestions about famous people from Clavering
Who counts as from Clavering?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Clavering’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)
- Cecil John Rhodes: unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Martin-Leake: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Purchas: Unidentified engraver, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Munroe Bergdorf: Hearst, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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