Photo: David Long · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Caton is listed yet
Go 4 mi to Lancaster and the list grows to 119, with Richard Owen at the top. 73 towns in Lancashire have at least one famous person on record. The longest list in Lancashire is Preston’s, with 346 names. Blackburn has the second-longest list in Lancashire, after Preston, with 269.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Caton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Caton yet.
Famous people born near Caton
Of the towns around it, Lancaster has the most on record: 119.
Questions about famous people from Caton
Who counts as from Caton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Caton’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 (5)
- Richard Owen: Lock and Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington (see [1], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter J. Ratcliffe: Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva., CC BY 2.5 ar, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Hutton: Francis Perry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Perkins: Ingy The Wingy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Felix Borowski: National Photo Company Collection, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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