Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Northleach
Just 10 mi away, Cirencester’s list holds 45 names, Cozy Powell the best known. Not one famous person on record comes from Northleach yet. Famous people are on record for 73 of the towns in Gloucestershire. Cheltenham has the most of any town in Gloucestershire: 264.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Northleach’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 Northleach as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Northleach
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Northleach, with how many people each has.
Cirencester · 10 miCozy Powell & 44 more
Winchcombe · 10 miCornelius Cardew & 9 more
Burford · 9 miWilliam Beechey & 5 more
Bourton-on-the-Water · 5 miWilfrid Hyde-White & 4 more
Stow-on-the-Wold · 9 miFrederic Bartlett & 4 moreCPPrestbury · 11 miCharlie Parker & 1 moreFHMilton-under-Wychwood and Shipton-under-Wychwood · 10 miFrank HartleyTPLechlade-on-Thames · 11 miThomas PrenceQuestions about famous people from Northleach
Who counts as from Northleach?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Northleach’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)
- Cozy Powell: Geffen Records, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Cornelius Cardew: User AndyScott, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Beechey: William Beechey, Public domain, 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
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