Photo: Christine Matthews · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Braughing has made the famous people list yet
The Hertfordshire lists hold names for 60 towns. Go 6 mi to Bishop's Stortford and the list grows to 50, with Cecil John Rhodes at the top. Watford’s 224 names make the longest list in Hertfordshire. After Watford, the next longest list in Hertfordshire is St Albans’, with 127.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Braughing’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Braughing yet.
Famous people born near Braughing
Close by, the fullest list is Bishop's Stortford’s, at 50 names.
Bishop's Stortford · 6 miCecil John Rhodes & 49 more
Ware · 7 miDerek Saunders & 21 more
Sawbridgeworth · 8 miStephen Greif & 8 more
Puckeridge and Standon · 2 miArthur Martin-Leake & 4 more
Hadham Cross · 4 miEdmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond & 4 more
Stansted Mountfitchet · 7 miMunroe Bergdorf & 2 moreTBGreat Amwell · 8 miTimothy Bevington & 1 moreACWalkern · 7 miAnthony John CampQuestions about famous people from Braughing
Who counts as from Braughing?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Braughing’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 (6)
- Cecil John Rhodes: unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Saunders: Wim van Rossem for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Greif: Stephen Greif, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Martin-Leake: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Munroe Bergdorf: Hearst, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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