Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Kennoway is listed yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Kirkcaldy and Dysart, 8 mi away: 192, led by Adam Smith. Across Fife, the lists cover 21 towns. The longest list of any town in Fife belongs to Kirkcaldy and Dysart, with 192. After Kirkcaldy and Dysart, the next longest list in Fife is Dunfermline’s, with 186.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Kennoway’s locality and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Kennoway yet.
Famous people born near Kennoway
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Kirkcaldy and Dysart · 8 miAdam Smith & 191 more
Cupar · 7 miAlexander Wood & 23 more
Lochgelly · 12 miAlexander Wood & 21 moreAEBuckhaven · 3 miAlex Eadie & 16 more
Leven · 2 miRobert Reid & 13 moreJVMethil · 2 miJack Vettriano & 13 more
Glenrothes · 5 miDougray Scott & 6 moreDPBallingry · 11 miDavid Pratt & 5 moreQuestions about famous people from Kennoway
Who counts as from Kennoway?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kennoway’s locality (the NRS 2022 locality 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 National Records of Scotland’s Census 2022 locality boundaries (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)
- Adam Smith: Etching created by Cadell and Davies (1811), John Horsburgh (1828) or R.C. Bell (1872)., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander Wood: Barraud & Jerrard, Photographers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander Wood: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Reid: Talma, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dougray Scott: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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