The Old Vicarage · Photo: Roger Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person yet from Radwinter
Go 4 mi to Saffron Walden and the list grows to 24, with William Strachey at the top. Colchester has the most of any town in Essex: 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 Radwinter’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Radwinter yet.
Famous people born near Radwinter
Saffron Walden has the longest list next door: 24.
Thaxted · 4 miSamuel Purchas & 3 moreRFHenham · 7 miRobert FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter & 1 more
Balsham · 8 miAdam of Balsham & 1 moreELNewport · 6 miErnest LongstaffeDFLinton · 6 miDavid Fairey
Great Chesterford · 7 miWalter PymQuestions about famous people from Radwinter
Who counts as from Radwinter?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Radwinter’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 (3)
- Samuel Purchas: Unidentified engraver, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam of Balsham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Pym: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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