Photo: Barry Shimmon · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Soberton has made the famous people list yet
Go 7 mi to Fareham and the list grows to 28, with Randal Cremer at the top. The longest list in Hampshire is Portsmouth’s, with 546 names. After Portsmouth, the next longest list in Hampshire is Southampton’s, with 502. Across Hampshire, the lists cover 93 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Soberton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Soberton yet.
Famous people born near Soberton
The fullest list close by belongs to Fareham, with 28.
Questions about famous people from Soberton
Who counts as from Soberton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Soberton’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 (3)
- Randal Cremer: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joe Beckett: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary of Waltham: Thomas Hollis and George Hollis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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