Photo: Oast House Archive · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Goudhurst
No famous person on record lists Goudhurst as their birthplace yet. Of its neighbours, Cranbrook, 4 mi away, lists the most: 13, Boyd Alexander first. In Kent, 122 towns have someone on the list. The longest list in Kent is Canterbury’s, with 160 names.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Goudhurst’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Goudhurst yet.
Famous people born near Goudhurst
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Cranbrook · 4 miBoyd Alexander & 12 more
Hawkhurst · 5 miNick Brown & 6 more
Wadhurst · 6 miCaroline Rhys Davids & 4 more
Benenden · 6 miAidan Crawley & 3 more
Horsmonden · 2 miWilliam Moon & 2 more
Marden · 4 miEdward Battersby Bailey & 2 more
Paddock Wood · 5 miFrederick E. Morgan & 1 more
Hurst Green · 6 miTich CornfordQuestions about famous people from Goudhurst
Who counts as from Goudhurst?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Goudhurst’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 (8)
- Boyd Alexander: Photographer unknown - obituary by W R Ogilvie-Grant, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Brown: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Caroline Rhys Davids: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aidan Crawley: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Moon: Engraved by D. & H. Taylor, after a photograph by W. & A. Fry, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Battersby Bailey: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick E. Morgan: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tich Cornford: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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