Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Down Ampney has no famous person on record yet
Go 8 mi to Swindon and the list grows to 182, with Billie Piper at the top. Cheltenham has the most of any town in Gloucestershire: 264. After Cheltenham, the next longest list in Gloucestershire is Gloucester’s, with 215. 73 towns across Gloucestershire can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Down Ampney’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Down Ampney yet.
Famous people born near Down Ampney
The neighbour with the most names is Swindon, at 182.
Swindon · 8 miBillie Piper & 181 more
Cirencester · 5 miCozy Powell & 44 moreWAHighworth · 7 miWilliam Joscelyn Arkell & 8 moreWECricklade · 3 miWill Evans & 1 more
Stratton St Margaret · 8 miWilliam Carpenter & 1 more
South Cerney · 3 miGrace Eleanor Hadow
Purton · 6 miDesmond MorrisTPLechlade-on-Thames · 7 miThomas PrenceQuestions about famous people from Down Ampney
Who counts as from Down Ampney?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Down Ampney’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)
- Billie Piper: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cozy Powell: Geffen Records, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Carpenter: uncertain (attributed to Townsend Duryea but timeline does not match Carpenter's career), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Grace Eleanor Hadow: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Desmond Morris: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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