Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Chart Sutton yet, but Maidstone next door has 136
Canterbury’s 160 names make the longest list in Kent. Across Kent, the lists cover 122 towns. The best known born in Maidstone is Robert Fisk.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Chart Sutton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Chart Sutton yet.
Famous people born near Chart Sutton
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Maidstone · 4 miRobert Fisk & 135 more
Larkfield · 8 miBarry Hawkins & 5 moreHLLenham and Harrietsham · 5 miH. Christopher Longuet-Higgins & 4 more
Wateringbury · 7 miStewart Symes & 4 morePABearsted · 3 miPaul Ashbee & 2 more
Marden · 5 miEdward Battersby Bailey & 2 moreJLCoxheath · 3 miJohn Larking & 1 moreJPSutton Valence · 1 miJohn Hastings, 2nd Earl of PembrokeQuestions about famous people from Chart Sutton
Who counts as from Chart Sutton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Chart Sutton’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 (4)
- Robert Fisk: Alan Liefting, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Hawkins: DerHexer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stewart Symes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Battersby Bailey: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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