Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Mitcheldean is on the famous people list yet
Ross-on-Wye, 5 mi away, has 12 on its list, the best known James Cowles Prichard. No town in Gloucestershire lists more than Cheltenham, with 264. After Cheltenham, the next longest list in Gloucestershire is Gloucester’s, with 215. The Gloucestershire lists hold names for 73 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Mitcheldean’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Mitcheldean yet.
Famous people born near Mitcheldean
The longest list nearby is Ross-on-Wye’s, with 12.
Questions about famous people from Mitcheldean
Who counts as from Mitcheldean?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mitcheldean’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)
- James Cowles Prichard: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Howitt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John McAfee: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gilbert Barling: Lafayette Ltd., CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Muriel Powell: Dame Muriel Powell by Godfrey Argent, bromide print, 25 November 1969 Commissioned, 1969, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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