Famous people from Engine Common
The nearest list is in Thornbury, 5 mi away: 13 names, starting with Richard William George Dennis. The Gloucestershire lists hold names for 73 towns. Not one famous person on record comes from Engine Common yet. No town in Gloucestershire lists more than Cheltenham, with 264.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Engine Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Engine Common yet.
Famous people born near Engine Common
Close by, the fullest list is Thornbury’s, at 13 names.
Chipping Sodbury · 2 miSimon Blackburn & 10 more
Yate · 1 miJ. K. Rowling & 3 more
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne · 3 miHarry Grindell Matthews & 1 more
Wickwar · 3 miMary Everest Boole & 1 more
Stoke Gifford · 5 miNorborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt & 1 moreWWPucklechurch · 5 miWalter WigmoreCHAlveston · 5 miChristopher HolderQuestions about famous people from Engine Common
Who counts as from Engine Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Engine Common’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)
- Simon Blackburn: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- J. K. Rowling: Daniel Ogren, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Grindell Matthews: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Everest Boole: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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