Church of St Mary · Photo: Martinbee · Public domainNo one from Great Chart is on the famous people list yet
Ashford, 1 mi away, has 80 on its list, the best known Frederick Forsyth. The longest list of any town in Kent belongs to Canterbury, with 160. After Canterbury, the next longest list in Kent is Maidstone’s, with 136. 122 towns across Kent can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Great Chart’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Great Chart yet.
Famous people born near Great Chart
Close by, Ashford counts 80 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Great Chart
Who counts as from Great Chart?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Great Chart’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)
- Frederick Forsyth: Hannu Lindroos / Helsingin Sanomat, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Frost: Robert D. Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Catharine Macaulay: Robert Edge Pine, 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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