Photo: Ian Roberts · CC BY-SA 2.0Edenfield has no famous person on record yet
Bury, 5 mi away, has 195 on its list, the best known Gary Neville. Famous people are on record for 73 of the towns in Lancashire. The longest list in Lancashire is Preston’s, with 346 names. After Preston, the next longest list in Lancashire is Blackburn’s, with 269.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Edenfield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Edenfield yet.
Famous people born near Edenfield
Of the towns around it, Bury has the most on record: 195.
Bury · 5 miGary Neville & 194 more
Accrington · 6 miJon Anderson & 53 moreWFHaslingden · 2 miWilliam Foster & 26 more
Rawtenstall · 3 miJane Horrocks & 20 more
Bacup · 5 miJohnny Clegg & 19 moreJBOswaldtwistle · 6 miJackie Bray & 16 moreTGRamsbottom · 2 miTim Greaves & 10 moreRHWhitworth · 5 miRoy Halstead & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Edenfield
Who counts as from Edenfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Edenfield’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)
- Gary Neville: University of Salford Press Office, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jon Anderson: Stéphane Gallay, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jane Horrocks: richiiebam, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johnny Clegg: davidata, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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