#1Famous people · Bentley, Hampshire
Bentley is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Hew Pike, the British Army general, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. The only other name is the English cyclist Dave Nie. A short trip away, Alton (5 mi) counts 21 famous people, Jimmy Dickinson among them. Born in 1940, Dave Nie is the first name on record, and Hew Pike, born in 1943, the most recent.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Hew Pike
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1940
Dave Nie
Youngest
1943
Hew Pike
Most common field
Military
1 people
The best known
Born in Bentley
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Known for
What Bentley is known for
Military leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 7 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Bentley
Who is the most famous person from Bentley?
Hew Pike (British Army general) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Dave Nie.
How many famous people were born in Bentley?
2 people born in Bentley have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bentley known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 4% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bentley?
Dave Nie, born in 1940. The youngest on the list was born in 1943.
Who counts as from Bentley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bentley’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)
- Hew Pike: Jack1956, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Dickinson: Pompey Rog, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Rolt: Daan Noske / Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Maxwell-Lefroy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Hawkins: Mitchea99, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Beldham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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