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Lee Martin
born 1968English association football player, born in February 1968
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Famous people · Hyde, Greater Manchester
29 famous people were born in Hyde, most of them in the 20th century
With articles in 9 languages, Lee Martin is the most widely known. Close behind are Frank Booth and Frank Knowles. The list is still growing: 2 were born since 1970. Per head, the list is long: 8.1 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Greater Manchester has 5.3.
Born here
29
notable people
Best known
Lee Martin
in 9 Wikipedia languages
First
1800
James Gaskill
Youngest
1990
Luke Baines
Most common field
Sports
15 people
The best known
Born in Hyde
First, Lee Martin (9 languages), then Frank Booth (7) and Frank Knowles (7).
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Through the years
When Hyde’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
SportsWriting & ArtsScience & MedicinePolitics & LawMilitaryFilm, TV & StageMusicBusinessFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Hyde is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 15 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Hyde
Of the other 26, 12 are athletes.
James Gaskill
1800–1870English cotton spinner, Bible Christian minister, and activist (1800–1870)
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Kenneth Horsfield
1920–1944Highly decorated war hero who sacrificed his life in an attempt to save colleagues.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Ashton-under-Lyne · 3 miGeoff Hurst & 133 more
Stalybridge · 3 miRob Holding & 22 more
Dukinfield · 2 miTony Brooks & 13 more
Denton · 2 miJimmy Armfield & 10 more
Bredbury and Woodley · 2 miRichard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley & 7 moreGTRomiley · 3 miGeorge Thornewell & 6 moreJCReddish · 4 miJoe Cooper & 5 moreJHHattersley · 2 miJohn HoltQuestions about famous people from Hyde
Who is the most famous person from Hyde?
Lee Martin (English association football player, born in February 1968) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Frank Booth and Frank Knowles.
How many famous people were born in Hyde?
29 people born in Hyde have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 32 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Hyde known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 15 of the 29. That is 52% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Hyde?
James Gaskill, born in 1800. The youngest on the list was born in 1990.
Who counts as from Hyde?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hyde’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 (12)
- Lee Martin: Stew jones, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke Baines: Super Festivals, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Len Hopwood: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Bramwell: Man Alive!, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jenny B. Campbell: Find a Future, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frances Burgess: EnriqueTabone, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Gaskill: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoff Hurst: Keven Law from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Holding: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Brooks: Hotel de France, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Armfield: Angstpristine, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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