#1Famous people · Aylesford, Kent
A single famous person was born in Aylesford: Simon Stock
The English hermit Simon Stock was born in 1164. Their birth falls before the Georgians. Readers can find them written up in 19 languages. For more famous names, Maidstone is 3 mi away: its list has 136, led by Robert Fisk.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Simon Stock
in 19 Wikipedia languages
First
1164
Simon Stock
The best known
Born in Aylesford
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Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Maidstone has the most on record, with 136.
Maidstone · 3 miRobert Fisk & 135 more
Chatham · 4 miLee Ryan & 132 more
Larkfield · 1 miBarry Hawkins & 5 more
Wateringbury · 4 miStewart Symes & 4 moreGFKings Hill · 4 miGeorge Willoughby Fraser & 2 morePABearsted · 5 miPaul Ashbee & 2 moreTHHalling · 4 miThomas James Harris & 1 moreJLCoxheath · 5 miJohn Larking & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Aylesford
Who is the most famous person from Aylesford?
Simon Stock (English hermit) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 19 languages.
How many famous people were born in Aylesford?
1 people born in Aylesford have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 2 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who counts as from Aylesford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Aylesford’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)
- Simon Stock: sailko, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Fisk: Alan Liefting, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lee Ryan: Lee_Ryan_2011.jpg: Christoph Henrichs from Germany derivative work: RanZag, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Hawkins: DerHexer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stewart Symes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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