Photo: Lewis Hulbert · CC BY-SA 4.0Next door to Ewshot, Aldershot lists 122 famous people
Of the famous people on record, none was born in Ewshot. Famous people are on record for 93 of the towns in Hampshire. 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 Ewshot’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ewshot yet.
Famous people born near Ewshot
The most names next door are in Aldershot: 122.
Aldershot · 3 miMartin Freeman & 121 moreDBFarnborough · 5 miDon Beauman & 39 moreRCFleet · 2 miRaquel Cassidy & 12 more
Crondall · 1 miHarold Maxwell-Lefroy & 2 moreJHAsh and Ash Vale · 5 miJohn Hamblin & 2 more
Bentley · 4 miHew Pike & 1 moreASFarnham · 3 miAntoine Seilern
Wrecclesham · 3 miBilly BeldhamQuestions about famous people from Ewshot
Who counts as from Ewshot?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ewshot’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)
- Martin Freeman: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Maxwell-Lefroy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hew Pike: Jack1956, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Beldham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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