#1Famous people · Yate, Gloucestershire
J. K. Rowling and 3 more famous people were born in Yate
J. K. Rowling, the English author, has articles in 182 languages. The British motorcycle racer Luke Hedger ranks second, ahead of Tony Grubb. The list comes to 1.4 for every 10,000 residents, below the 2.5 of the typical town in Gloucestershire. 3 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
J. K. Rowling
in 182 Wikipedia languages
First
1936
Tony Grubb
Youngest
1995
Luke Hedger
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Yate’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Yate
J. K. Rowling, Luke Hedger and Tony Grubb are written about in 182, 3 and 2 languages.
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Through the years
When Yate’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1960s come out on top, with 1 births.
SportsWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Yate is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Yate
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Kingswood and Fishponds, at 25.
Kingswood and Fishponds · 6 miW. G. Grace & 24 more
Chipping Sodbury · 1 miSimon Blackburn & 10 more
Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne · 3 miHarry Grindell Matthews & 1 more
Wickwar · 4 miMary Everest Boole & 1 more
Stoke Gifford · 6 miNorborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt & 1 moreWWPucklechurch · 4 miWalter WigmoreCHAlveston · 6 miChristopher HolderQuestions about famous people from Yate
Who is the most famous person from Yate?
J. K. Rowling (English author (born 1965)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 182 languages. Next come Luke Hedger and Tony Grubb.
How many famous people were born in Yate?
4 people born in Yate have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Yate known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Yate?
Tony Grubb, born in 1936. The youngest on the list was born in 1995.
Who counts as from Yate?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Yate’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)
- J. K. Rowling: Daniel Ogren, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke Hedger: Richard Wiseman, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- W. G. Grace: George Beldam, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Blackburn: Bengt Oberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Grindell Matthews: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Everest Boole: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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