Photo: Dave Croker · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Saul is listed yet
Within 6 mi, Cinderford lists the most: 6, with John McAfee first. In Gloucestershire, 73 towns have someone on the list. Cheltenham’s 264 names make the longest list in Gloucestershire. 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 Saul’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 Saul as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Saul
Cinderford has the longest list next door: 6.
Cinderford · 6 miJohn McAfee & 5 more
Stonehouse · 4 miCharles Wilkins & 3 more
Newnham · 4 miGilbert Barling & 1 more
Quedgeley and Hardwicke · 4 miScott Redding & 1 moreSBBlakeney · 5 miStuart Blanch & 1 more
Cam · 6 miFalconer Madan & 1 more
Eastington · 3 miCharles Cowley
Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley · 5 miSir Charles Murray MarlingQuestions about famous people from Saul
Who counts as from Saul?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Saul’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 (7)
- John McAfee: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Wilkins: Daniel Rees, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gilbert Barling: Lafayette Ltd., CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Redding: HubertduMaine, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Falconer Madan: Artist Percy Bigland (1858–1926), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Cowley: Charles Cowley, 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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