Photo: Oast House Archive · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Detling
The nearest list is in Maidstone, 3 mi away: 136 names, starting with Robert Fisk. Not one famous person on record comes from Detling yet. 122 towns in Kent have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Kent belongs to Canterbury, with 160.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Detling’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Detling yet.
Famous people born near Detling
Around it, Maidstone has the most people on record, 136 of them.
Maidstone · 3 miRobert Fisk & 135 more
Chatham · 5 miLee Ryan & 132 more
Gillingham · 5 miDavid Harvey & 75 more
Larkfield · 5 miBarry Hawkins & 5 moreHLLenham and Harrietsham · 6 miH. Christopher Longuet-Higgins & 4 morePABearsted · 2 miPaul Ashbee & 2 more
Newington · 6 miDon Potter & 2 moreJLCoxheath · 5 miJohn Larking & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Detling
Who counts as from Detling?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Detling’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)
- Robert Fisk: Alan Liefting, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lee Ryan: Lee_Ryan_2011.jpg: Christoph Henrichs from Germany derivative work: RanZag, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Harvey: readingcapital, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Hawkins: DerHexer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Don Potter: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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