Photo: Simon Burchell · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person born in Holybourne is listed yet
Jimmy Dickinson tops the 21 names on record in Alton, 1 mi away. 93 towns in Hampshire have at least one famous person on record. No town in Hampshire lists more than Portsmouth, with 546. After Portsmouth, the next longest list in Hampshire is Southampton’s, with 502.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Holybourne’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Holybourne yet.
Famous people born near Holybourne
The longest list nearby is Alton’s, with 21.
Questions about famous people from Holybourne
Who counts as from Holybourne?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Holybourne’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)
- Jimmy Dickinson: Pompey Rog, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Rolt: Daan Noske / Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Maxwell-Lefroy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Hawkins: Mitchea99, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hew Pike: Jack1956, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Beldham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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