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Famous people · Sundridge, Kent
2 famous people were born in Sundridge
Articles in 2 languages make the association football player Bert Goffey the best known. One more name completes the list: Bertha Cave. Within 2 mi, Sevenoaks lists the most: 49, with Bill Bruford first. Births span 1881 to 1911, from Bertha Cave to Bert Goffey.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Bert Goffey
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1881
Bertha Cave
Youngest
1911
Bert Goffey
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Sundridge
#2Politics & Law
Bertha Cave
1881–1951British campaigner for opening the legal profession to women, bacteriologist
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Known for
What Sundridge is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 1.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Sevenoaks has the most people on record, 49 of them.
Questions about famous people from Sundridge
Who is the most famous person from Sundridge?
Bert Goffey (association football player (1911-1991)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come Bertha Cave.
How many famous people were born in Sundridge?
2 people born in Sundridge have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Sundridge known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sundridge?
Bertha Cave, born in 1881. The youngest on the list was born in 1911.
Who counts as from Sundridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sundridge’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 (7)
- Bertha Cave: The Tatler, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Bruford: No machine-readable author provided. Nomo assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Manley: Alexander Migl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laura Trott: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Wolfe: Attributed to Joseph Highmore, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edith of Wilton: Juan de las Roelas, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Surtees: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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