#1Famous people · Church, Lancashire
Mina Anwar tops a list of 6 famous people born in Church
The best known is the British actress Mina Anwar, with articles in 14 languages. In the Victorian era, 5 were born, the most of any period. Born in 1863, Nat Whittaker is the first name on record, and Mina Anwar, born in 1969, the most recent. Per head, the list is long: 11.9 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Lancashire has 2.3.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Mina Anwar
in 14 Wikipedia languages
First
1863
Nat Whittaker
Youngest
1969
Mina Anwar
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Church
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1AC#2
Sports
Arthur Chadwick
1875–1936English footballer and manager (1875–1936)
9 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
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Through the years
When Church’s famous people were born
The 1870s alone account for 2 of the births charted here.
SportsFilm, TV & StageWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Church is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Church
Of the other 3, 2 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Blackburn: 269.
Blackburn · 4 miIan McShane & 268 more
Accrington · 1 miJon Anderson & 53 moreHHPadiham · 4 miHarry Hill & 24 moreJBOswaldtwistle · 1 miJackie Bray & 16 moreJSClayton-le-Moors · 1 miJack Simmons & 6 moreMDRishton · 2 miMartin Dobson & 4 more
Huncoat · 2 miHarold Davenport & 2 more
Read · 4 miAlexander Nowell & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Church
Who is the most famous person from Church?
Mina Anwar (British actress) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 14 languages. Next come Arthur Chadwick and Jimmy Whitehead.
How many famous people were born in Church?
6 people born in Church have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Church known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 6. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Church?
Nat Whittaker, born in 1863. The youngest on the list was born in 1969.
Who counts as from Church?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Church’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 (6)
- Mina Anwar: Steve Bowbrick from Radlett, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Marsden: Weglinde Gordon Lawson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian McShane: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jon Anderson: Stéphane Gallay, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Davenport: Konrad Jacobs, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander Nowell: British – School Details on Google Art Project, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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