Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0Tiptoe has yet to put a famous person on the list
Just 6 mi away, Christchurch’s list holds 37 names, Don Finlay the best known. 93 towns in Hampshire have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Hampshire belongs to Portsmouth, with 546. 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 Tiptoe’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Tiptoe yet.
Famous people born near Tiptoe
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Christchurch · 6 miDon Finlay & 36 more
Lymington · 4 miBirdy & 21 more
Lyndhurst · 7 miArthur Gore & 13 more
Milford on Sea · 4 miFrances Fisher & 5 more
Barton on Sea · 3 miJamie Redknapp & 3 moreJRBrockenhurst · 4 miJohn Rawlence & 3 moreANBransgore · 4 miAdam Nicolson & 2 moreDBAshley · 1 miDonovan BrowningQuestions about famous people from Tiptoe
Who counts as from Tiptoe?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tiptoe’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)
- Don Finlay: RAF Official, 1941., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Birdy: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Gore: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frances Fisher: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Redknapp: Will Palmer from Leeds, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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