Photo: Phil Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0Upton Cheyney has no famous person on record yet
For more famous names, Bath is 5 mi away: its list has 343, led by Tyrone Mings. The Gloucestershire lists hold names for 73 towns. The longest list in Gloucestershire is Cheltenham’s, with 264 names. 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 Upton Cheyney’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Upton Cheyney yet.
Famous people born near Upton Cheyney
Nearby, Bath has the most on record, with 343.
Bath · 5 miTyrone Mings & 342 more
Kingswood and Fishponds · 4 miW. G. Grace & 24 more
Keynsham · 3 miMarcus Trescothick & 12 more
Batheaston · 6 miGeorge Montague Harper & 4 moreDCMarshfield · 6 miDavid Corbett & 2 more
Whitchurch · 5 miJudd Trump & 1 more
Saltford · 2 miZach WajtknechtWWPucklechurch · 4 miWalter WigmoreQuestions about famous people from Upton Cheyney
Who counts as from Upton Cheyney?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Upton Cheyney’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)
- Tyrone Mings: DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- W. G. Grace: George Beldam, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcus Trescothick: Ngb at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- George Montague Harper: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Judd Trump: Martin Rulsch, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Zach Wajtknecht: Lawson Speedway, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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