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Famous people · Brockenhurst, Hampshire
Brockenhurst is the birthplace of 4 famous people
The best known is the English cricketer John Rawlence, with articles in 3 languages. Charlotte Hough is second and Frederick Bowden-Smith third. For every 10,000 residents there are 11.5 on the list, well above the typical Hampshire town’s 2.7. Born in 1838, Nathaniel Bowden-Smith is the first name on record, and Charlotte Hough, born in 1924, the most recent.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
John Rawlence
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1838
Nathaniel Bowden-Smith
Youngest
1924
Charlotte Hough
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Brockenhurst
The three are covered in 3, 1 and 1 languages: John Rawlence, Charlotte Hough and Frederick Bowden-Smith.
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Sports
Frederick Bowden-Smith
1841–1919English cricketer and clergyman (1841-1919)
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Through the years
When Brockenhurst’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1910s, with 1 people born in that decade.
SportsWriting & ArtsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Brockenhurst is known for
Share of Brockenhurst’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Brockenhurst
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Lymington counts 22 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Brockenhurst
Who is the most famous person from Brockenhurst?
John Rawlence (English cricketer (1915-1983)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Charlotte Hough and Frederick Bowden-Smith.
How many famous people were born in Brockenhurst?
4 people born in Brockenhurst have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Brockenhurst known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Brockenhurst?
Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, born in 1838. The youngest on the list was born in 1924.
Who counts as from Brockenhurst?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Brockenhurst’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 (5)
- Charlotte Hough: Open Media Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Birdy: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Gore: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frances Fisher: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Redknapp: Will Palmer from Leeds, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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