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Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Queenborough, Kent
One famous person was born in Queenborough
Richard Hatherill came into the world in 1769. Their birth falls in the Georgian era. One language has an article about them so far. For more famous names, Sittingbourne is 5 mi away: its list has 24, led by Lewis Theobald.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Richard Hatherill
in 1 Wikipedia languages
First
1769
Richard Hatherill
Most common field
Military
1 people
The best known
Born in Queenborough
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Sittingbourne has the most people on record, 24 of them.
Questions about famous people from Queenborough
Who is the most famous person from Queenborough?
Richard Hatherill (Royal Navy officer, born 1769) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Queenborough?
1 people born in Queenborough have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 2 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Queenborough known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 4% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Queenborough?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Queenborough’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)
- Lewis Theobald: William Hogarth, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward James Reed: Carlo Pellegrini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Don Potter: Jpbowen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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