#1Writing & Arts
Charlotte Mary Yonge
1823–1901English writer, editor (1823–1901)
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Famous people · Otterbourne, Hampshire
Otterbourne counts 4 famous people, first among them Charlotte Mary Yonge
With articles in 26 languages, Charlotte Mary Yonge is the most widely known. The next two names are Jim Bailey and Henry Misselbrook. Jim Bailey, born in 1908, is the youngest, and Charlotte Mary Yonge, born in 1823, the first on record. More are athletes than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Charlotte Mary Yonge
in 26 Wikipedia languages
First
1823
Charlotte Mary Yonge
Youngest
1908
Jim Bailey
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Otterbourne
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Through the years
When Otterbourne’s famous people were born
The 1820s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Otterbourne is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Otterbourne
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Winchester lists the most people: 176.
Questions about famous people from Otterbourne
Who is the most famous person from Otterbourne?
Charlotte Mary Yonge (English writer, editor (1823–1901)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 26 languages. Next come Jim Bailey and Henry Misselbrook.
How many famous people were born in Otterbourne?
4 people born in Otterbourne have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Otterbourne known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Otterbourne?
Charlotte Mary Yonge, born in 1823. The youngest on the list was born in 1908.
Who counts as from Otterbourne?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Otterbourne’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)
- Charlotte Mary Yonge: Duke Yonge, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry III of England: Matthew Paris, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Petty: John Closterman, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Nicholls: putnik, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Birch Freeman: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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