Photo: David Martin · CC BY-SA 2.0Peel Common has no famous person on record yet
Portsmouth, 5 mi off, can claim 546 famous people, the best known Charles Dickens. In all of Hampshire, the famous people on record come from 93 towns. The longest list in Hampshire is Portsmouth’s, with 546 names. 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 Peel Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Peel Common yet.
Famous people born near Peel Common
The longest list nearby is Portsmouth’s, with 546.
Portsmouth · 5 miCharles Dickens & 545 more
Gosport · 2 miMatt Ritchie & 50 moreAMRyde · 7 miAnthony Minghella & 29 more
Fareham · 2 miRandal Cremer & 27 more
Cowes · 7 miJeremy Irons & 23 more
Locks Heath · 4 miRachel Russell, Baroness Russell & 6 more
Hamble-le-Rice · 6 miDanielle Rowe & 5 more
Wickham · 5 miJoe Beckett & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Peel Common
Who counts as from Peel Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Peel Common’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 (7)
- Charles Dickens: Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Ritchie: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/cfcunofficial/ @cfcunofficial (Chelsea Debs) London ], CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Randal Cremer: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Irons: Copyright owned by Jeremy Irons [Jonathan Hession/Showtime], CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachel Russell, Baroness Russell: William Dobson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Danielle Rowe: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Beckett: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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