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Photo: Oast House Archive · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Horton Kirby, Kent
Horton Kirby is the birthplace of 2 famous people
At the top of the list is the English cricketer William Boys Rashleigh, covered in 2 languages. The list has one more: the British flying ace William James Middleton. Go 3 mi to Swanley and the list grows to 5, with Crispian St. Peters at the top. Over 70 years of births, the list goes from William Boys Rashleigh (1827) to William James Middleton (1897).
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
William Boys Rashleigh
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1827
William Boys Rashleigh
Youngest
1897
William James Middleton
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Horton Kirby
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Known for
What Horton Kirby is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Swanley: 5.
Questions about famous people from Horton Kirby
Who is the most famous person from Horton Kirby?
William Boys Rashleigh (English cricketer (1827-1890)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come William James Middleton.
How many famous people were born in Horton Kirby?
2 people born in Horton Kirby have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Horton Kirby known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Horton Kirby?
William Boys Rashleigh, born in 1827. The youngest on the list was born in 1897.
Who counts as from Horton Kirby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Horton Kirby’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 (2)
- Crispian St. Peters: Jamie Records, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Fry: Yabush, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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