Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Elmdon has made the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Saffron Walden is 5 mi away: its list has 24, led by William Strachey. Colchester’s 236 names make the longest list in Essex. After Colchester, the next longest list in Essex is Chelmsford’s, with 193. In all of Essex, the famous people on record come from 86 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Elmdon’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Elmdon yet.
Famous people born near Elmdon
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Elmdon
Who counts as from Elmdon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Elmdon’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)
- Thomas Cartwright: Gustavus Ellinthorpe Sintzenich, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Birch: mickbirch, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Will Hoy: Tony Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Pym: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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