Photo: Terryjoyce · CC BY-SA 3.0Next door to Rettendon, Wickford lists 5 famous people
No famous person on record lists Rettendon as their birthplace yet. In all of Essex, the famous people on record come from 86 towns. Colchester has the most of any town in Essex: 236. 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 Rettendon’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Rettendon yet.
Famous people born near Rettendon
The most names next door are in Wickford: 5.
Questions about famous people from Rettendon
Who counts as from Rettendon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rettendon’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 (2)
- Chantelle Houghton: See Li, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Neil Innes: Neil_Innes_by_Luke_Ford.jpg: Luke Ford derivative work: Tabercil, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
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