#1Politics & Law
Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle
1926–2024British politician and peer (1926–2024)
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Famous people · Coppull, Lancashire
3 famous people call Coppull their birthplace
Articles in 6 languages make the British politician and peer Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle the best known. The next two names are Arthur Masters and Amanda Roocroft. Arthur Masters (1910) and Amanda Roocroft (1966) mark the two ends of the list. A short trip away, Chorley (2 mi) counts 60 famous people, Charles Lightoller among them.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1910
Arthur Masters
Youngest
1966
Amanda Roocroft
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 people
The best known
Born in Coppull
First, Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle (6 languages), then Arthur Masters (4) and Amanda Roocroft (2).
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Known for
What Coppull is known for
1 of them work in Politics & Law, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Chorley leads the towns around it, with 60 names.
Questions about famous people from Coppull
Who is the most famous person from Coppull?
Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle (British politician and peer (1926–2024)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Arthur Masters and Amanda Roocroft.
How many famous people were born in Coppull?
3 people born in Coppull have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Coppull known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Coppull?
Arthur Masters, born in 1910. The youngest on the list was born in 1966.
Who counts as from Coppull?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Coppull’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)
- Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Lightoller: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lindsay Hoyle: ©House of Commons / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ivor Bolton: Benno Hunziker, Sinfonieorchester Basel, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- Ashley Slanina-Davies: Ian Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Rigby: Matthew, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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