Photo: Chris Gunns · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Stoke is listed yet
Portsmouth, 4 mi off, can claim 546 famous people, the best known Charles Dickens. Famous people are on record for 93 of the towns in Hampshire. 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 Stoke’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Stoke yet.
Famous people born near Stoke
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Stoke, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Stoke
Who counts as from Stoke?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Stoke’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 (4)
- Charles Dickens: Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tiff Needell: Brian Snelson, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joel Ward: jamesboyes @ Flickr, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Bell: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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