Photo: Ray Bird · CC BY-SA 2.0Charfield has no famous person on record yet
Nearby, Berkeley, 5 mi away, lists 14, led by Edward Jenner. No town in Gloucestershire lists more than Cheltenham, with 264. Gloucester has the second-longest list in Gloucestershire, after Cheltenham, with 215. The Gloucestershire lists hold names for 73 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Charfield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Charfield as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Charfield
Berkeley leads the towns around it, with 14 names.
Berkeley · 5 miEdward Jenner & 13 moreRDThornbury · 5 miRichard William George Dennis & 12 more
Chipping Sodbury · 6 miSimon Blackburn & 10 moreDBDursley · 4 miDave Bruton & 8 more
Yate · 6 miJ. K. Rowling & 3 moreJSWotton-under-Edge · 2 miJamie Stephens & 2 more
Kingswood · 2 miLarissa Wilson & 1 more
Wickwar · 2 miMary Everest Boole & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Charfield
Who counts as from Charfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Charfield’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)
- Edward Jenner: James Northcote, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Blackburn: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- J. K. Rowling: Daniel Ogren, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Larissa Wilson: Erik Jensen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Everest Boole: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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