Photo: N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Etchinghill is on the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Folkestone is 4 mi away: its list has 71, led by William Harvey. In all of Kent, the famous people on record come from 122 towns. The longest list in Kent is Canterbury’s, with 160 names. Maidstone has the second-longest list in Kent, after Canterbury, with 136.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Etchinghill’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Etchinghill yet.
Famous people born near Etchinghill
Nearby, Folkestone has the most on record, with 71.
Questions about famous people from Etchinghill
Who counts as from Etchinghill?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Etchinghill’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)
- William Harvey: After Daniël Mijtens, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Holdstock: Philippe Gindre, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Catharine Macaulay: Robert Edge Pine, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Stanley Parker: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Barton: most probably Thomas Holloway (1748–1827)[2] based on a painting by Henry Tresham, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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