Photo: Christine Johnstone · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Summit, Rochdale lists 170 famous people
No entry yet names Summit as a birthplace. Manchester’s 2,047 names make the longest list in Greater Manchester. After Manchester, the next longest list in Greater Manchester is Bolton’s, with 374. In all of Greater Manchester, the famous people on record come from 73 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Summit’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Summit yet.
Famous people born near Summit
Around it, Rochdale has the most people on record, 170 of them.
Rochdale · 4 miSajid Javid & 169 more
Todmorden · 4 miJohn Cockcroft & 35 more
Littleborough · 1 miAgyness Deyn & 24 more
Bacup · 5 miJohnny Clegg & 19 more
Shaw · 5 miPhilip Gilbert Hamerton & 4 more
Wardle · 2 miChris Schofield & 2 moreCCMilnrow · 3 miChris Cattlin & 1 moreRHWhitworth · 4 miRoy Halstead & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Summit
Who counts as from Summit?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Summit’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)
- Sajid Javid: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Cockcroft: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Agyness Deyn: Nate "Igor" Smith from Brooklyn, NY, USA - Drivenbyboredom.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johnny Clegg: davidata, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton: A.H. Palmer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Schofield: Gareth Williams from Redhill, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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