Photo: Marathon · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Cowden is listed yet
Richard Leman heads the list in East Grinstead, 5 mi away, which has 26 names. In all of Kent, the famous people on record come from 122 towns. The longest list of any town in Kent belongs to Canterbury, with 160. 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 Cowden’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Cowden yet.
Famous people born near Cowden
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Crowborough · 7 miE. E. Evans-Pritchard & 16 more
Edenbridge · 4 miMichael Manley & 9 more
Lingfield · 5 miHenry Surtees & 3 more
Rusthall and Langton Green · 6 miEmma Louisa Turner & 2 moreTTGroombridge · 5 miThomas Turner & 1 moreGPDormansland · 4 miGordon Potter
Forest Row · 4 miWillie HunterQuestions about famous people from Cowden
Who counts as from Cowden?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cowden’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 (5)
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard: Brigade Piron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Manley: Alexander Migl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Surtees: Skully Collins, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Emma Louisa Turner: unknown, image taken in the 1890s, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Willie Hunter: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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