#1Music
Mick Jagger
born 1943British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones
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Famous people · Dartford, Kent
Mick Jagger and 103 more famous people were born in Dartford
99 languages have an article about Mick Jagger. More than half were born in the 20th century, 60 in all. The list has 1.7 times the usual share of musicians, 9 in all. The first birth on record is Edward Godfrey’s, in 1584, and the last Ben Sheaf’s, in 1998.
Born here
104
notable people
Best known
Mick Jagger
in 99 Wikipedia languages
First
1584
Edward Godfrey
Youngest
1998
Ben Sheaf
Most common field
Sports
66 people
What stands out about Dartford’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Dartford
Musicians take two of the three places.
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#2Music
Keith Richards
born 1943British musician, guitarist of the Rolling Stones
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#3Film, TV & Stage
Andrea Arnold
born 1961English film director and actress
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Through the years
When Dartford’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1960s, with 19 people born in that decade.
SportsMusicWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineMilitaryNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Dartford is known for
Compared with the usual town, musicians are the most over-represented field, at 1.7 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Dartford
101 more, best known first.
David Ford
born 1978English recording artist, singer-songwriter, guitarist and songwriter
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Andy Hessenthaler
born 1965English association football player and manager (born 1965)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Bexley leads the towns around it, with 207 names.
Questions about famous people from Dartford
Who is the most famous person from Dartford?
Mick Jagger (British singer and songwriter; vocalist of The Rolling Stones) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 99 languages. Next come Keith Richards and Andrea Arnold.
How many famous people were born in Dartford?
104 people born in Dartford have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 125 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Dartford known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 66 of the 104. That is 63% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dartford?
Edward Godfrey, born in 1584. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Dartford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dartford’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 (37)
- Mick Jagger: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Keith Richards: Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrea Arnold: Andrea_Arnold_2012.jpg: Georges Biard derivative work: César, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Blake: The Academy on Vimeo, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie O'Hara: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joncandy/, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Curtis: Steve Rhodes from San Francisco, US, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke Freeman: Littlerasc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Malcolm Allison: Joseph1891, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dick Taylor: deargdoom57, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Crimp: Leafar - Raphaël Labbé, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pete Tong: Aflickion, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ben Sheaf: joshjdss, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Jagger: Fanfan1964, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Phil May: deargdoom57, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tara McDonald: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anna Turley: ©House of Commons / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johnny Mercer: UK Parliament, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Julian Brazier: Cantuar1987 at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Doreen Allen: Unknown photographer c 1905, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Martin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar: ©House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Ford: djdoublem, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Hessenthaler: ChrisTheDude at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Charnley: UPI, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Havoc: Major League Wrestling, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Terry Hollands: Munsterbusiness.ie, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Mills: Kerry and Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Rider: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Wilmot: Robk23oxf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Mills: Jones W A (Sgt) Royal Air Force official photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg Bagwell: Staff Sgt. Jarad A. Denton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Steve Weatherley: Lawson Speedway, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Allan Jones: City of Sydney, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Dangerfield: Scrivnerivner, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lee Johnson: Didje83, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kate Bush: Guido Harari, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eleanor Pike: Laurence Warburton Pike, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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