Ashlar House and Ashlar Cottage · Photo: Trappedinburnley · CC BY-SA 4.0Next door to Fence, Burnley lists 209 famous people
No famous person’s birth in Fence is on record yet. 73 towns in Lancashire have at least one famous person on record. Preston’s 346 names make the longest list in Lancashire. 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 Fence’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Fence yet.
Famous people born near Fence
Of the towns nearby, Burnley lists the most people: 209.
Questions about famous people from Fence
Who counts as from Fence?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fence’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)
- Ian McKellen: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Phelan: Saadick Dhansay, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wallace Hartley: Wallace Henry Harvey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alexander Nowell: British – School Details on Google Art Project, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Carey Foster: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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