#1Famous people · Elham, Kent
Elham counts 4 famous people, first among them Les Ames
At the top of the list is the cricket player of England Les Ames, covered in 10 languages. Behind the leader come Ann Johnson and Fred Castle. From Les Ames in 1905 to Ann Johnson in 1933, the births cover 28 years. The biggest group are athletes: 3.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Les Ames
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1905
Les Ames
Youngest
1933
Ann Johnson
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Elham
The three best known are all athletes.
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Through the years
When Elham’s famous people were born
4 were born in the 20th century, and the 1900s alone saw 3.
SportsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Elham is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Elham
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Folkestone leads the towns around it, with 71 names.
Questions about famous people from Elham
Who is the most famous person from Elham?
Les Ames (cricket player of England. (1905-1990)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 10 languages. Next come Ann Johnson and Fred Castle.
How many famous people were born in Elham?
4 people born in Elham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Elham known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 4. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Elham?
Les Ames, born in 1905. The youngest on the list was born in 1933.
Who counts as from Elham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Elham’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)
- Les Ames: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Harvey: After Daniël Mijtens, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Holdstock: Philippe Gindre, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Stanley Parker: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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