#1Famous people · Larkfield, Kent
6 famous people come from Larkfield, Barry Hawkins the best known
Most widely known is Barry Hawkins, the English snooker player, with articles in 29 languages. The largest group, 3, was born in the 20th century. Over 98 years of births, the list goes from Punter Humphreys (1881) to Barry Hawkins (1979). The list comes to 2.3 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Kent, at 3.1.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Barry Hawkins
in 29 Wikipedia languages
First
1881
Punter Humphreys
Youngest
1979
Barry Hawkins
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Larkfield
First, Barry Hawkins (29 languages), then Paxton Whitehead (12) and Arthur Blunden (4).
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Through the years
When Larkfield’s famous people were born
The 1880s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
SportsFilm, TV & StageMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Larkfield is known for
Larkfield has 1.4× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Larkfield
3 more, from 1881 to 1968.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Maidstone’s, with 136.
Questions about famous people from Larkfield
Who is the most famous person from Larkfield?
Barry Hawkins (English snooker player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 29 languages. Next come Paxton Whitehead and Arthur Blunden.
How many famous people were born in Larkfield?
6 people born in Larkfield have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Larkfield known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 6. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Larkfield?
Punter Humphreys, born in 1881. The youngest on the list was born in 1979.
Who counts as from Larkfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Larkfield’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 (3)
- Barry Hawkins: DerHexer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Fisk: Alan Liefting, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stewart Symes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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