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Science & Medicine
Edwin Cheel
1872–1951Australian botanist (1872-1951)
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Famous people · Chartham, Kent
4 famous people were born in Chartham from 1604 to 1915
Edwin Cheel, the Australian botanist, is the most widely known, written about in 10 languages. Second place goes to the cricket player of England Arthur Fagg, third to Hardress Waller. Per head, the list is long: 11.2 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Kent has 3.1. The list’s best known name, Edwin Cheel, dates from 1872.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Edwin Cheel
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1604
Hardress Waller
Youngest
1915
Arthur Fagg
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Chartham
Languages with an article: 10 for Edwin Cheel, 8 for Arthur Fagg, 2 for Hardress Waller.
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#3Through the years
When Chartham’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1870s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Politics & LawScience & MedicineSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Chartham is known for
Share of Chartham’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Chartham
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Canterbury has the longest list next door: 160.
Questions about famous people from Chartham
Who is the most famous person from Chartham?
Edwin Cheel (Australian botanist (1872-1951)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 10 languages. Next come Arthur Fagg and Hardress Waller.
How many famous people were born in Chartham?
4 people born in Chartham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Chartham known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Chartham?
Hardress Waller, born in 1604. The youngest on the list was born in 1915.
Who counts as from Chartham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Chartham’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)
- Arthur Fagg: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hardress Waller: Man vyi, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Marlowe: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Catharine Macaulay: Robert Edge Pine, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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