CM#1
Film, TV & Stage
Chris Menges
born 1940British cinematographer and film director
20 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Famous people · Kington, Herefordshire
5 famous people come from Kington, Chris Menges the best known
Articles in 20 languages make the British cinematographer and film director Chris Menges the best known. Stephen Kemble and Walter Russell Hall follow. Most were born in the Georgian era: 3 of them. Over 340 years of births, the list goes from Thomas Hill (1600) to Chris Menges (1940).
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Chris Menges
in 20 Wikipedia languages
First
1600
Thomas Hill
Youngest
1940
Chris Menges
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
What stands out about Kington’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Kington’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1750s, with 2 people born in that decade.
Film, TV & StageBusinessNotableScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Kington
Performers take two of the three places.
#2Film, TV & Stage
Stephen Kemble
1758–1822British actor and theatre manager (1758-1822)
5 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
#3Business
Walter Russell Hall
1831–1911Australian businessman (1831-1911)
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What Kington is known for
Share of Kington’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Kington
The other 2 span the years 1600 to 1753.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Presteigne leads the towns around it, with 8 names.
Questions about famous people from Kington
Who is the most famous person from Kington?
Chris Menges (British cinematographer and film director) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 20 languages. Next come Stephen Kemble and Walter Russell Hall.
How many famous people were born in Kington?
5 people born in Kington have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Kington known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 2 of the 5. That is 40% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Kington?
Thomas Hill, born in 1600. The youngest on the list was born in 1940.
Who counts as from Kington?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kington’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)
- Stephen Kemble: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Russell Hall: Frederick McCubbin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chaz Davies: David Pettit, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Doris Turner: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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