Photo: Peter Trimming · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person yet from High Beech
Go 4 mi to Enfield and the list grows to 448, with Brook Taylor at the top. 86 of the towns in Essex list at least one person. The longest list in Essex is Colchester’s, with 236 names. After Colchester, the next longest list in Essex is Chelmsford’s, with 193.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in High Beech’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in High Beech yet.
Famous people born near High Beech
Close by, the fullest list is Enfield’s, at 448 names.
Enfield · 4 miBrook Taylor & 447 more
Waltham Forest · 5 miAlfred Hitchcock & 276 more
Epping · 5 miPhilip Hammond & 48 moreCTLoughton · 2 miChristine Truman & 20 more
Chigwell · 4 miSally Gunnell & 18 moreCOWaltham Abbey · 2 miConnor Ogilvie & 10 more
Cheshunt · 5 miMichael Dobbs & 9 more
Waltham Cross · 3 miRuss Ballard & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from High Beech
Who counts as from High Beech?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside High Beech’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)
- Brook Taylor: Louis Goupy (died 1747), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfred Hitchcock: Ante Brkan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Hammond: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sally Gunnell: Sally_Gunnell_in_1995.jpg: User:Electric.tapir derivative work: Ukexpat, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Dobbs: ©House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Russ Ballard: kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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