#1Famous people · Yateley, Hampshire
From 1848 to 1979, Yateley was the birthplace of 4 famous people
At the top of the list is the British actor and singer Daniel Boys, covered in 5 languages. Robert Morgan and Walter Mason follow. The list comes to 2.7 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Hampshire, at 2.7. More are performers than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Daniel Boys
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1848
Walter Mason
Youngest
1979
Daniel Boys
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
The best known
Born in Yateley
By how many languages cover them, Daniel Boys comes first (5), then Robert Morgan (4) and Walter Mason (4).
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Through the years
When Yateley’s famous people were born
The 1970s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
Film, TV & StageSportsMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Yateley is known for
2 of them work in Film, TV & Stage, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Yateley
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Frimley: 62.
Frimley · 5 miJames, Earl of Wessex & 61 more
Camberley · 4 miJoan Robinson & 41 moreDBFarnborough · 4 miDon Beauman & 39 moreRCFleet · 4 miRaquel Cassidy & 12 more
Crowthorne · 3 miFreeman Dyson & 9 moreJDHartley Wintney · 4 miJohn Duigan & 8 more
Sandhurst · 2 miWilliam Patterson & 6 moreRHMinley · 1 miReginald HoareQuestions about famous people from Yateley
Who is the most famous person from Yateley?
Daniel Boys (British actor and singer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Robert Morgan and Walter Mason.
How many famous people were born in Yateley?
4 people born in Yateley have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Yateley known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Yateley?
Walter Mason, born in 1848. The youngest on the list was born in 1979.
Who counts as from Yateley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Yateley’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)
- Daniel Boys: User:AnemoneProjectors, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James, Earl of Wessex: NZ Defence Force, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joan Robinson: W. Punt for Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Freeman Dyson: ioerror, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Patterson: Credit: "From photo by E. Hawkins & Co., Brighton", Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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