Photo: Arpingstone · Public domainNo famous person yet from Westerleigh
Nearby, Kingswood and Fishponds, 4 mi away, lists 25, led by W. G. Grace. The Gloucestershire lists hold names for 73 towns. 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 Westerleigh’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Westerleigh yet.
Famous people born near Westerleigh
Around it, Kingswood and Fishponds has the most people on record, 25 of them.
Kingswood and Fishponds · 4 miW. G. Grace & 24 more
Chipping Sodbury · 2 miSimon Blackburn & 10 more
Yate · 2 miJ. K. Rowling & 3 moreDCMarshfield · 6 miDavid Corbett & 2 more
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne · 2 miHarry Grindell Matthews & 1 more
Stoke Gifford · 4 miNorborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt & 1 more
Wickwar · 6 miMary Everest Boole & 1 moreWWPucklechurch · 2 miWalter WigmoreQuestions about famous people from Westerleigh
Who counts as from Westerleigh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Westerleigh’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)
- W. G. Grace: George Beldam, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Blackburn: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- J. K. Rowling: Daniel Ogren, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Grindell Matthews: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Everest Boole: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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