Photo: Nach0king · CC BY-SA 3.0Inverkip has no famous person on record yet
A short trip away, Greenock (4 mi) counts 223 famous people, James Watt among them. No town in Inverclyde lists more than Greenock, with 223. Kilmacolm has the second-longest list in Inverclyde, after Greenock, with 3. Famous people are on record for 2 of the towns in Inverclyde.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Inverkip’s locality and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Inverkip as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Inverkip
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Inverkip, with how many people each has.
Greenock · 4 miJames Watt & 222 more
Helensburgh · 9 miJohn Logie Baird & 35 moreJBRothesay · 9 miJohn Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute & 26 more
Largs · 8 miThomas Brisbane & 17 more
Dunoon · 4 miSylvester McCoy & 15 moreJMBridge of Weir · 12 miJames McCrae & 8 moreJMLochwinnoch · 12 miJim Mather & 8 more
Kilmacolm · 9 miHedrick Smith & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Inverkip
Who counts as from Inverkip?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Inverkip’s locality (the NRS 2022 locality 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 National Records of Scotland’s Census 2022 locality boundaries (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)
- James Watt: Henry Howard, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Logie Baird: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Brisbane: E. E. Friedrich T. Schenck (1811-1885), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sylvester McCoy: Patrick Subotkiewiez, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hedrick Smith: Djembayz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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