Church of St Peter · Photo: Tilman2007 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people from Ightham
The list for Ightham is empty for now. A short trip away, Sevenoaks (4 mi) counts 49 famous people, Bill Bruford among them. 122 towns in Kent have at least one famous person on record. No town in Kent lists more than Canterbury, with 160.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ightham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ightham yet.
Famous people born near Ightham
Of the towns nearby, 6 have famous names listed.
Sevenoaks · 4 miBill Bruford & 48 more
Wrotham · 2 miHenry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge & 3 moreCCBorough Green · 1 miCatherine Crowe & 2 more
Plaxtol · 2 miWalter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley & 2 more
Otford and Kemsing · 4 miEdith of Wilton & 2 moreCFHadlow · 5 miColin Fairservice & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Ightham
Who counts as from Ightham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ightham’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)
- Bill Bruford: No machine-readable author provided. Nomo assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge: After Francis Holl / Eden Upton Eddis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edith of Wilton: Juan de las Roelas, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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