Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0Seal has no famous person on record yet
Of its neighbours, Sevenoaks, 2 mi away, lists the most: 49, Bill Bruford first. Canterbury has the most of any town in Kent: 160. After Canterbury, the next longest list in Kent is Maidstone’s, with 136. Famous people are on record for 122 of the towns in Kent.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Seal’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 2 people here, but none of their articles confirm Seal as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Seal
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Seal, with how many people each has.
Sevenoaks · 2 miBill Bruford & 48 more
Wrotham · 4 miHenry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge & 3 more
Otford and Kemsing · 1 miEdith of Wilton & 2 moreCCBorough Green · 4 miCatherine Crowe & 2 more
Plaxtol · 4 miWalter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley & 2 moreTWFarningham · 6 miTrevor Ward & 2 moreBGSundridge · 4 miBert Goffey & 1 moreTWEynsford · 5 miThomas Whitby & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Seal
Who counts as from Seal?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Seal’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
- Edith of Wilton: Juan de las Roelas, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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