Photo: David Long · CC BY-SA 2.0Rough Common has yet to put a famous person on the list
Christopher Marlowe heads the list in Canterbury, 2 mi away, which has 160 names. 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. Across Kent, 122 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Rough Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Rough Common yet.
Famous people born near Rough Common
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Canterbury · 2 miChristopher Marlowe & 159 moreGFFaversham · 7 miGeorge Finlay & 26 moreSKWhitstable · 4 miSean Kerly & 25 more
Herne Bay · 6 miKevin Ayers & 12 moreECChartham · 3 miEdwin Cheel & 3 moreGMSturry · 3 miGeoffrey Basil Maiden & 1 moreAWBridge · 5 miArthur Webb & 1 moreDMLittlebourne · 5 miDicky Mayes & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Rough Common
Who counts as from Rough Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rough Common’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)
- Christopher Marlowe: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Ayers: TimDuncan, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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