Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Bidborough yet, but Royal Tunbridge Wells next door has 119
The Kent lists hold names for 122 towns. The longest list in Kent is Canterbury’s, with 160 names. After Canterbury, the next longest list in Kent is Maidstone’s, with 136. Royal Tunbridge Wells’ list is led by Emma Corrin.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Bidborough’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Bidborough as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Bidborough
Royal Tunbridge Wells has the longest list next door: 119.
Royal Tunbridge Wells · 3 miEmma Corrin & 118 more
Tonbridge · 3 miCecil Frank Powell & 52 more
Southborough · 1 miKenneth Hutchings & 7 more
Rusthall and Langton Green · 2 miEmma Louisa Turner & 2 moreCFHadlow · 6 miColin Fairservice & 2 more
Plaxtol · 7 miWalter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley & 2 moreTTGroombridge · 5 miThomas Turner & 1 more
Paddock Wood · 7 miFrederick E. Morgan & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Bidborough
Who counts as from Bidborough?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bidborough’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)
- Emma Corrin: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Frank Powell: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenneth Hutchings: George Beldam, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Emma Louisa Turner: unknown, image taken in the 1890s, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick E. Morgan: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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