Photo: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Broadwell is on the famous people list yet
Chipping Norton, 7 mi off, can claim 21 famous people, the best known Wentworth Miller. In all of Gloucestershire, the famous people on record come from 73 towns. No town in Gloucestershire lists more than Cheltenham, with 264. 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 Broadwell’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Broadwell yet.
Famous people born near Broadwell
Chipping Norton has the longest list next door: 21.
Chipping Norton · 7 miWentworth Miller & 20 moreGGMoreton-in-Marsh · 3 miGabrielle Glaister & 7 moreFHShipston-on-Stour · 9 miFrancis J. Haverfield & 5 more
Stow-on-the-Wold · 1 miFrederic Bartlett & 4 more
Bourton-on-the-Water · 5 miWilfrid Hyde-White & 4 more
Chipping Campden · 8 miMatthew Gotrel & 3 moreHCHook Norton · 10 miHood Hanway Christian & 2 more
Blockley · 5 miCecil SandfordQuestions about famous people from Broadwell
Who counts as from Broadwell?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Broadwell’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 (5)
- Wentworth Miller: Andrew Horovitz, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederic Bartlett: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilfrid Hyde-White: derivative work: Rossrs Wilfred_Hyde-White_in_Ada_trailer.jpg: Trailer screenshot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Gotrel: Gregor Rom, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Sandford: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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