Photo: Philip Jeffrey · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Cottered
No entry yet names Cottered as a birthplace. Go 5 mi to Stevenage and the list grows to 51, with Lewis Hamilton at the top. Watford has the most of any town in Hertfordshire: 224. 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 Cottered’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Cottered yet.
Famous people born near Cottered
The fullest list close by belongs to Stevenage, with 51.
Letchworth · 7 miJames Lovelock & 16 more
Baldock · 5 miSamuel Farr & 4 more
Puckeridge and Standon · 6 miArthur Martin-Leake & 4 moreDWKnebworth · 7 miDavid Whitaker & 2 moreACWalkern · 3 miAnthony John CampRLLittle Wymondley · 7 miRichard LanghorneTBWoolmer Green · 8 miTom BridgerQuestions about famous people from Cottered
Who counts as from Cottered?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cottered’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 (3)
- James Lovelock: Bruno Comby, CC BY-SA 1.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Farr: Standish and Preece, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Martin-Leake: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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