Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0Everton has no famous person on record yet
Just 7 mi away, Christchurch’s list holds 37 names, Don Finlay the best known. 93 towns across Hampshire can name a famous person born there. The longest list in Hampshire is Portsmouth’s, with 546 names. Southampton has the second-longest list in Hampshire, after Portsmouth, with 502.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Everton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Everton yet.
Famous people born near Everton
Close by, the fullest list is Christchurch’s, at 37 names.
Christchurch · 7 miDon Finlay & 36 more
Lymington · 2 miBirdy & 21 more
Lyndhurst · 9 miArthur Gore & 13 more
Milford on Sea · 1 miFrances Fisher & 5 more
Barton on Sea · 3 miJamie Redknapp & 3 moreJRBrockenhurst · 5 miJohn Rawlence & 3 more
Freshwater and Totland · 5 miRobert Hooke & 2 moreANBransgore · 7 miAdam Nicolson & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Everton
Who counts as from Everton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Everton’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)
- Don Finlay: RAF Official, 1941., Public domain, 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
- Robert Hooke: Mary Beale, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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