Arrowsmith House · Photo: Devadude2 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people born near Gregson Lane
Phil Jones tops the 346 names on record in Preston, 4 mi away. So far, no famous person on record was born in Gregson Lane. Across Lancashire, 73 towns list someone born there. The longest list of any town in Lancashire belongs to Preston, with 346.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Gregson Lane’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Gregson Lane yet.
Famous people born near Gregson Lane
Close by, Preston counts 346 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Gregson Lane
Who counts as from Gregson Lane?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gregson Lane’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)
- Phil Jones: Matt Janzer from Missoula, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leonora Carrington: WendyAvilesR, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian McCulloch: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wade Barrett: Shamsuddin Muhammad from Fort Hood, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kathleen Ferrier: Polygoon Hollands Nieuws, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
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