Photo: Jacqui Sadler · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people near Challock: 80 in Ashford
The list for Challock is empty for now. The longest list in Kent is Canterbury’s, with 160 names. Maidstone has the second-longest list in Kent, after Canterbury, with 136. Famous people are on record for 122 of the towns in Kent.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Challock’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Challock yet.
Famous people born near Challock
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Challock, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Challock
Who counts as from Challock?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Challock’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 (2)
- Frederick Forsyth: Hannu Lindroos / Helsingin Sanomat, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Catharine Macaulay: Robert Edge Pine, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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