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Bobby Langton
1918–1996English footballer and manager (1918-1996)
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Famous people · Burscough, Lancashire
5 famous people were born in Burscough
At the top of the list is the English footballer and manager Bobby Langton, covered in 7 languages. Mark Beesley and Alan Cocks follow. More than half were born in the 20th century, 4 in all. For every 10,000 residents there are 5.7 on the list, well above the typical Lancashire town’s 2.3.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Bobby Langton
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1907
Tommy Price
Youngest
1980
Mark Beesley
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Burscough’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Burscough’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1910s come out on top, with 1 births.
SportsFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Burscough
By how many languages cover them, Bobby Langton comes first (7), then Mark Beesley (6) and Alan Cocks (5).
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Known for
What Burscough is known for
Burscough has 1.6× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Burscough
Another 2, the earliest born in 1907.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Burscough, with how many people each has.
Ormskirk · 3 miJames Hopwood Jeans & 67 moreJASkelmersdale · 4 miJohn Anderton & 8 moreRECroston · 5 miRobert Etherington & 5 more
Eccleston · 6 miJohn Rigby & 3 more
Tarleton and Hesketh Bank · 7 miNancy Rothwell & 3 moreEPAppley Bridge · 5 miEva Pope & 2 moreHWParbold · 3 miHugh Wood & 1 moreJBBanks · 6 miJack BallQuestions about famous people from Burscough
Who is the most famous person from Burscough?
Bobby Langton (English footballer and manager (1918-1996)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Mark Beesley and Alan Cocks.
How many famous people were born in Burscough?
5 people born in Burscough have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Burscough known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 5. That is 80% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Burscough?
Tommy Price, born in 1907. The youngest on the list was born in 1980.
Who counts as from Burscough?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Burscough’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)
- Mark Beesley: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Hopwood Jeans: Kokorik (Uploader), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Rigby: Matthew, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy Rothwell: Manchester University Maths, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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