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Famous people · Fleet, Hampshire
13 famous people were born in Fleet, most of them in the 20th century
Articles in 20 languages make the British actress Raquel Cassidy the best known. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 3.4, close to the 2.7 of the typical Hampshire town. The first birth on record is Cecil Bouchier’s, in 1895, and the last Jayda Pechova’s, in 2004. More are athletes than anything else, 8 in all.
Born here
13
notable people
Best known
Raquel Cassidy
in 20 Wikipedia languages
First
1895
Cecil Bouchier
Youngest
2004
Jayda Pechova
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Fleet’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Fleet’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 4 of the births charted here.
SportsFilm, TV & StageMilitaryWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Fleet
By how many languages cover them, Raquel Cassidy comes first (20), then Juliet Aubrey (16) and Gordon Coppuck (7).
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Known for
What Fleet is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 8 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Fleet
A further 10 follow, born between 1895 and 2004.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Aldershot has the most people on record, 122 of them.
Questions about famous people from Fleet
Who is the most famous person from Fleet?
Raquel Cassidy (British actress) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 20 languages. Next come Juliet Aubrey and Gordon Coppuck.
How many famous people were born in Fleet?
13 people born in Fleet have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Fleet known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 8 of the 13. That is 62% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Fleet?
Cecil Bouchier, born in 1895. The youngest on the list was born in 2004.
Who counts as from Fleet?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fleet’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 (7)
- Corinne Yorston: BCLFC photographer Jaskirt Dhaliwal, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christian Jolley: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Bouchier: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jayda Pechova: Soodge, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Freeman: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Boys: User:AnemoneProjectors, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Maxwell-Lefroy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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