Photo: Nick Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Broad Oak is on the famous people list yet
A short trip away, Canterbury (2 mi) counts 160 famous people, Christopher Marlowe among them. In Kent, 122 towns have someone on the list. Canterbury’s 160 names make the longest list in Kent. After Canterbury, the next longest list in Kent is Maidstone’s, with 136.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Broad Oak’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Broad Oak yet.
Famous people born near Broad Oak
The fullest list close by belongs to Canterbury, with 160.
Canterbury · 2 miChristopher Marlowe & 159 moreSKWhitstable · 4 miSean Kerly & 25 more
Herne Bay · 4 miKevin Ayers & 12 moreECChartham · 6 miEdwin Cheel & 3 moreGMSturry · 1 miGeoffrey Basil Maiden & 1 moreDMLittlebourne · 3 miDicky Mayes & 1 moreAWBridge · 5 miArthur Webb & 1 more
Wingham · 5 miWilliam Miller & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Broad Oak
Who counts as from Broad Oak?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Broad Oak’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)
- Christopher Marlowe: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Ayers: TimDuncan, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Miller: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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