Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Cambridge yet, but Stroud next door has 55
73 towns in Gloucestershire have at least one famous person on record. Cheltenham’s 264 names make the longest list in Gloucestershire. After Cheltenham, the next longest list in Gloucestershire is Gloucester’s, with 215. The best known born in Stroud is Martin Evans.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Cambridge’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Cambridge yet.
Famous people born near Cambridge
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Stroud · 6 miMartin Evans & 54 more
Berkeley · 5 miEdward Jenner & 13 moreDBDursley · 3 miDave Bruton & 8 more
Stonehouse · 4 miCharles Wilkins & 3 more
Cam · 2 miFalconer Madan & 1 moreSBBlakeney · 5 miStuart Blanch & 1 more
Eastington · 2 miCharles Cowley
Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley · 4 miSir Charles Murray MarlingQuestions about famous people from Cambridge
Who counts as from Cambridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cambridge’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 (6)
- Martin Evans: Cardiff University, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Jenner: James Northcote, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Wilkins: Daniel Rees, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Falconer Madan: Artist Percy Bigland (1858–1926), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Cowley: Charles Cowley, 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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