Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from West Malling
So far, no famous person on record was born in West Malling. For more famous names, Larkfield is 2 mi away: its list has 6, led by Barry Hawkins. In all of Kent, the famous people on record come from 122 towns. The longest list of any town in Kent belongs to Canterbury, with 160.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in West Malling’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in West Malling yet.
Famous people born near West Malling
Around it, Larkfield has the most people on record, 6 of them.
Larkfield · 2 miBarry Hawkins & 5 more
Wateringbury · 3 miStewart Symes & 4 more
Wrotham · 5 miHenry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge & 3 moreGFKings Hill · 2 miGeorge Willoughby Fraser & 2 moreCCBorough Green · 4 miCatherine Crowe & 2 moreTHHalling · 4 miThomas James Harris & 1 moreSCSnodland · 3 miStephen CaponHPBurham · 4 miH. R. PercyQuestions about famous people from West Malling
Who counts as from West Malling?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside West Malling’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)
- Barry Hawkins: DerHexer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stewart Symes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge: After Francis Holl / Eden Upton Eddis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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