#1Famous people · Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
Stonehouse’s famous people span 204 years: 4 births from 1764 to 1968
Most widely known is Charles Wilkins, the Welsh historian, with articles in 3 languages. Second place goes to the English footballer David Smith, third to George Nayler. Charles Wilkins, the best known, was born in 1830. For every 10,000 residents there are 4.8 on the list, well above the typical Gloucestershire town’s 2.5.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Charles Wilkins
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1764
George Nayler
Youngest
1968
David Smith
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Stonehouse
Charles Wilkins has articles in 3 languages, David Smith in 2 and George Nayler in 2.
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#3Through the years
When Stonehouse’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1830s come out on top, with 1 births.
SportsWriting & ArtsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Stonehouse is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Stonehouse
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Stroud, with 55.
Stroud · 2 miMartin Evans & 54 more
Painswick · 5 miHugh Algernon Weddell & 4 more
Minchinhampton · 5 miJoanna Trollope & 3 more
Nailsworth · 4 miJoseph Edkins & 1 more
Cam · 5 miFalconer Madan & 1 more
Quedgeley and Hardwicke · 5 miScott Redding & 1 more
Leonard Stanley and King's Stanley · 1 miSir Charles Murray Marling
Eastington · 2 miCharles CowleyQuestions about famous people from Stonehouse
Who is the most famous person from Stonehouse?
Charles Wilkins (Welsh historian) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come David Smith and George Nayler.
How many famous people were born in Stonehouse?
4 people born in Stonehouse have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Stonehouse known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Stonehouse?
George Nayler, born in 1764. The youngest on the list was born in 1968.
Who counts as from Stonehouse?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Stonehouse’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 (10)
- Charles Wilkins: Daniel Rees, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Nayler: Print by Edward Scriven, after Sir William Beechey., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Evans: Cardiff University, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugh Algernon Weddell: Léopold Dubois, 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
- Scott Redding: HubertduMaine, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir Charles Murray Marling: The original uploader was Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Cowley: Charles Cowley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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