Church of St Bartholomew · Photo: Acabashi · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person yet from Nympsfield
The neighbour with the longest list is Stroud, 4 mi away: 55, led by Martin Evans. Famous people are on record for 73 of the towns in Gloucestershire. The longest list of any town in Gloucestershire belongs to Cheltenham, with 264. After Cheltenham, the next longest list in Gloucestershire is Gloucester’s, with 215.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Nympsfield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Nympsfield yet.
Famous people born near Nympsfield
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Stroud · 4 miMartin Evans & 54 moreDBDursley · 3 miDave Bruton & 8 more
Stonehouse · 3 miCharles Wilkins & 3 more
Minchinhampton · 4 miJoanna Trollope & 3 moreJSWotton-under-Edge · 5 miJamie Stephens & 2 more
Nailsworth · 3 miJoseph Edkins & 1 more
Cam · 3 miFalconer Madan & 1 more
Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley · 2 miSir Charles Murray MarlingQuestions about famous people from Nympsfield
Who counts as from Nympsfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Nympsfield’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 (6)
- Martin Evans: Cardiff University, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Wilkins: Daniel Rees, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joanna Trollope: Dreamspy at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Edkins: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Falconer Madan: Artist Percy Bigland (1858–1926), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir Charles Murray Marling: The original uploader was Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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