Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Great Eccleston is listed yet
Go 5 mi to Kirkham and the list grows to 10, with George Wilson at the top. The longest list in Lancashire is Preston’s, with 346 names. Blackburn has the second-longest list in Lancashire, after Preston, with 269. 73 towns in Lancashire have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Great Eccleston’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Great Eccleston yet.
Famous people born near Great Eccleston
The neighbour with the most names is Kirkham, at 10.
Questions about famous people from Great Eccleston
Who counts as from Great Eccleston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Great Eccleston’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 (2)
- Andy Summers: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Speight: Oscar Albert Leopold Sacks, Manningham Lane, Bradford, UK, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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