Photo: Mike Faherty · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Ashurst, Southampton lists 502 famous people
The list for Ashurst is empty for now. The Hampshire lists hold names for 93 towns. The longest list of any town in Hampshire belongs to Portsmouth, with 546. Southampton’s list is led by Rishi Sunak.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ashurst’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ashurst yet.
Famous people born near Ashurst
Close by, Southampton counts 502 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Romsey · 7 miWilliam Petty & 21 more
Lyndhurst · 3 miArthur Gore & 13 more
Totton · 2 miLaura Michelle Kelly & 8 more
Hythe and Dibden Purlieu · 5 miBruce Parry & 6 moreJRBrockenhurst · 6 miJohn Rawlence & 3 moreRPCadnam and Bartley · 2 miRaymond Pitman & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Ashurst
Who counts as from Ashurst?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ashurst’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 (4)
- William Petty: John Closterman, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Gore: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Laura Michelle Kelly: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bruce Parry: BritishExpeditions, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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