Photo: Penny Mayes · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Sutton Scotney is on the famous people list yet
Go 6 mi to Winchester and the list grows to 176, with Henry III of England at the top. 93 towns in Hampshire have at least one famous person on record. 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 Sutton Scotney’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Sutton Scotney yet.
Famous people born near Sutton Scotney
Winchester leads the towns around it, with 176 names.
Questions about famous people from Sutton Scotney
Who counts as from Sutton Scotney?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sutton Scotney’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)
- Henry III of England: Matthew Paris, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Reg Presley: Fontana Records, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfred Denning, Baron Denning: Fotograaf Onbekend / Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Williams: Mockridge, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1844-1913, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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