Photo: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Shipton, Cheltenham lists 264 famous people
Of the famous people on record, none was born in Shipton. The longest list in Gloucestershire is Cheltenham’s, with 264 names. Gloucester has the second-longest list in Gloucestershire, after Cheltenham, with 215. 73 towns across Gloucestershire can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Shipton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Shipton yet.
Famous people born near Shipton
Around it, Cheltenham has the most people on record, 264 of them.
Questions about famous people from Shipton
Who counts as from Shipton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Shipton’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 (4)
- 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
- Simon Pegg: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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