Photo: Peter I. Vardy · Public domainNo famous person yet from Guiting Power
Of its neighbours, Cheltenham, 10 mi away, lists the most: 264, Gustav Holst first. 73 towns in Gloucestershire have at least one famous person on record. The longest list in Gloucestershire is Cheltenham’s, with 264 names. Gloucester has the second-longest list in Gloucestershire, after Cheltenham, with 215.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Guiting Power’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Guiting Power yet.
Famous people born near Guiting Power
Nearby, Cheltenham has the most on record, with 264.
Cheltenham · 10 miGustav Holst & 263 more
Winchcombe · 5 miCornelius Cardew & 9 moreGGMoreton-in-Marsh · 9 miGabrielle Glaister & 7 more
Bourton-on-the-Water · 5 miWilfrid Hyde-White & 4 more
Stow-on-the-Wold · 6 miFrederic Bartlett & 4 morePGBishop's Cleeve · 9 miPeter Goring & 2 moreCPPrestbury · 8 miCharlie Parker & 1 more
Blockley · 8 miCecil SandfordQuestions about famous people from Guiting Power
Who counts as from Guiting Power?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Guiting Power’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)
- Gustav Holst: Herbert Lambert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cornelius Cardew: User AndyScott, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilfrid Hyde-White: derivative work: Rossrs Wilfred_Hyde-White_in_Ada_trailer.jpg: Trailer screenshot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederic Bartlett: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Sandford: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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