Photo: Steve F · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Stone is listed yet
Just 2 mi away, Dartford’s list holds 104 names, Mick Jagger the best known. 122 towns in Kent have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Kent belongs to Canterbury, with 160. Maidstone has the second-longest list in Kent, after Canterbury, with 136.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Stone’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Stone yet.
Famous people born near Stone
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Dartford · 2 miMick Jagger & 103 moreRSNorthfleet · 3 miRichard Southwood & 12 moreGCChafford Hundred and West Thurrock · 3 miGeorge Curtis & 3 moreRWSwanscombe · 1 miRuth Westbrook & 2 moreWRHorton Kirby · 4 miWilliam Boys Rashleigh & 1 moreTEHawley · 3 miThomas Mylius Savage EnglishJWSouth Darenth and Sutton at Hone · 3 miJimmy Wootton
Purfleet-on-Thames · 3 miEleanor PikeQuestions about famous people from Stone
Who counts as from Stone?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Stone’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)
- Mick Jagger: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eleanor Pike: Laurence Warburton Pike, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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