Photo: Roger May · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Box, Stroud lists 55 famous people
No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Box. Across Gloucestershire, 73 towns list someone born there. Cheltenham’s 264 names make the longest list in Gloucestershire. After Cheltenham, the next longest list in Gloucestershire is Gloucester’s, with 215.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Box’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Box yet.
Famous people born near Box
Around it, Stroud has the most people on record, 55 of them.
Stroud · 3 miMartin Evans & 54 more
Tetbury · 4 miMark Phillips & 10 more
Painswick · 6 miHugh Algernon Weddell & 4 more
Minchinhampton · 1 miJoanna Trollope & 3 more
Stonehouse · 5 miCharles Wilkins & 3 more
Nailsworth · 1 miJoseph Edkins & 1 more
Chalford · 3 miJohn Thomas
Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley · 4 miSir Charles Murray MarlingQuestions about famous people from Box
Who counts as from Box?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Box’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 (8)
- Martin Evans: Cardiff University, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Phillips: Antonisse, Marcel / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugh Algernon Weddell: Léopold Dubois, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joanna Trollope: Dreamspy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Wilkins: Daniel Rees, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Edkins: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Thomas: Unknown authorUnknown author The author has signed the engraving, but the name is illegible, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir Charles Murray Marling: The original uploader was Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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