Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Cranbrook Common yet, but Tenterden next door has 14
122 towns across Kent can name a famous person born there. Canterbury has the most of any town in Kent: 160. After Canterbury, the next longest list in Kent is Maidstone’s, with 136. The best known born in Tenterden is David Frost.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Cranbrook Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Cranbrook Common yet.
Famous people born near Cranbrook Common
Nearby, Tenterden has the most on record, with 14.
Questions about famous people from Cranbrook Common
Who counts as from Cranbrook Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cranbrook Common’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 (7)
- David Frost: Robert D. Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Boyd Alexander: Photographer unknown - obituary by W R Ogilvie-Grant, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Brown: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aidan Crawley: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John R. Winder: Charles Roscoe Savage, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Battersby Bailey: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Moon: Engraved by D. & H. Taylor, after a photograph by W. & A. Fry, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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