Photo: Alexander P Kapp · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person yet from Haskayne
A short trip away, Southport (5 mi) counts 162 famous people, Miranda Richardson among them. Famous people are on record for 73 of the towns in Lancashire. The longest list of any town in Lancashire belongs to Preston, with 346. 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 Haskayne’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Haskayne yet.
Famous people born near Haskayne
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Southport · 5 miMiranda Richardson & 161 more
Bootle · 7 miJamie Carragher & 72 more
Ormskirk · 3 miJames Hopwood Jeans & 67 moreGGCrosby · 6 miGerald Gardner & 52 moreWCFormby · 4 miWilliam Guy Carr & 14 moreABAintree · 6 miAndy Burnham & 7 more
Litherland · 6 miRoger McGough & 5 moreBLBurscough · 6 miBobby Langton & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Haskayne
Who counts as from Haskayne?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Haskayne’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)
- Miranda Richardson: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Carragher: Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Hopwood Jeans: Kokorik (Uploader), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger McGough: Serine Ben Brahim, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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