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Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Liphook, Hampshire
3 famous people come from Liphook, Pete Wingfield the best known
Most widely known is Pete Wingfield, the English musician, with articles in 10 languages. Second place goes to the football goalkeeper Charlie Briggs, third to Arthur Lee. The oldest name on the list belongs to Charlie Briggs, born in 1911, the newest to Pete Wingfield, born in 1948. Per head, the list is long: 4.2 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Hampshire has 2.7.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Pete Wingfield
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1911
Charlie Briggs
Youngest
1948
Pete Wingfield
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Liphook
Two of the three are athletes.
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Known for
What Liphook is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Haslemere: 28.
Questions about famous people from Liphook
Who is the most famous person from Liphook?
Pete Wingfield (English musician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 10 languages. Next come Charlie Briggs and Arthur Lee.
How many famous people were born in Liphook?
3 people born in Liphook have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Liphook known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Liphook?
Charlie Briggs, born in 1911. The youngest on the list was born in 1948.
Who counts as from Liphook?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Liphook’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)
- Calum Chambers: Ronnie McDonald, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin Firth: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Helen Joseph: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Rolt: Daan Noske / Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Hawkins: Mitchea99, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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