Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Lower Farringdon has no famous person on record yet
Go 3 mi to Alton and the list grows to 21, with Jimmy Dickinson at the top. Portsmouth has the most of any town in Hampshire: 546. After Portsmouth, the next longest list in Hampshire is Southampton’s, with 502. 93 towns in Hampshire have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Lower Farringdon’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Lower Farringdon yet.
Famous people born near Lower Farringdon
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Lower Farringdon
Who counts as from Lower Farringdon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lower Farringdon’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)
- Jimmy Dickinson: Pompey Rog, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Calum Chambers: Ronnie McDonald, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Rolt: Daan Noske / Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Hawkins: Mitchea99, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hew Pike: Jack1956, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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