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Tiff Needell
born 1951British racing driver and television presenter
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Famous people · Havant, Hampshire
Athletes stand out among the 16 famous people born in Havant
At the top of the list is the British racing driver and television presenter Tiff Needell, covered in 21 languages. The cricketer David Blake ranks second, ahead of David Gorman. The largest group, 10, was born in the 20th century. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 3.4, close to the 2.7 of the typical Hampshire town.
Born here
16
notable people
Best known
Tiff Needell
in 21 Wikipedia languages
First
1818
John Bulbeck
Youngest
1964
Paul Wimbleton
Most common field
Sports
12 people
What stands out about Havant’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Havant is known for
Havant has 1.5× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Havant
The three best known are all athletes.
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Through the years
When Havant’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1900s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Havant
13 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 7 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Havant
Who is the most famous person from Havant?
Tiff Needell (British racing driver and television presenter) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 21 languages. Next come David Blake and David Gorman.
How many famous people were born in Havant?
16 people born in Havant have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 18 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Havant known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 12 of the 16. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Havant?
John Bulbeck, born in 1818. The youngest on the list was born in 1964.
Who counts as from Havant?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Havant’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)
- Tiff Needell: Brian Snelson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoffrey Arbuthnot: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Dickens: Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joel Ward: jamesboyes @ Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Bell: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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