Kingsdown Mill · Photo: Daniel Bros, Lewisham · Public domainNo one from West Kingsdown is on the famous people list yet
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge heads the list in Wrotham, 3 mi away, which has 4 names. The Kent lists hold names for 122 towns. 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.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in West Kingsdown’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in West Kingsdown yet.
Famous people born near West Kingsdown
Wrotham has the longest list next door: 4.
Wrotham · 3 miHenry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge & 3 moreTWFarningham · 3 miTrevor Ward & 2 more
Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley · 3 miMatt Fry & 2 more
Otford and Kemsing · 4 miEdith of Wilton & 2 moreCCBorough Green · 5 miCatherine Crowe & 2 moreTWEynsford · 2 miThomas Whitby & 1 moreWRHorton Kirby · 3 miWilliam Boys Rashleigh & 1 moreJWSouth Darenth and Sutton at Hone · 4 miJimmy WoottonQuestions about famous people from West Kingsdown
Who counts as from West Kingsdown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside West Kingsdown’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)
- Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge: After Francis Holl / Eden Upton Eddis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Fry: Yabush, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edith of Wilton: Juan de las Roelas, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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