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Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Burley, Hampshire
Burley’s famous people span 119 years: 2 births from 1838 to 1957
Kevin Reeves, the English footballer, is the most widely known, written about in 7 languages. The only other name is the New Zealand politician Harry Warner Farnall. For more famous names, Christchurch is 6 mi away: its list has 37, led by Don Finlay. The list’s best known name, Kevin Reeves, dates from 1957.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Kevin Reeves
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1838
Harry Warner Farnall
Youngest
1957
Kevin Reeves
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Burley
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Politics & Law
Harry Warner Farnall
1838–1891New Zealand politician (1838-1891)
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What Burley is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 1.
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
The fullest list close by belongs to Christchurch, with 37.
Questions about famous people from Burley
Who is the most famous person from Burley?
Kevin Reeves (English footballer (born 1957)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Harry Warner Farnall.
How many famous people were born in Burley?
2 people born in Burley have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Burley known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Burley?
Harry Warner Farnall, born in 1838. The youngest on the list was born in 1957.
Who counts as from Burley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Burley’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 (3)
- Don Finlay: RAF Official, 1941., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Gore: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Redknapp: Will Palmer from Leeds, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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