#1Famous people · Heysham, Lancashire
From 1848 to 1982, Heysham was the birthplace of 3 famous people
Articles in 9 languages make the footballer David Perkins the best known. Gertrude Partington Albright and Florence Everilda Goodeve follow. Go 4 mi to Lancaster and the list grows to 119, with Richard Owen at the top. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 1.8, close to the 2.3 of the typical Lancashire town.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
David Perkins
in 9 Wikipedia languages
First
1848
Florence Everilda Goodeve
Youngest
1982
David Perkins
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Heysham
Ranked by languages covered: David Perkins with 9, then Gertrude Partington Albright with 7 and Florence Everilda Goodeve with 4.
#1GA#2
Writing & Arts
Gertrude Partington Albright
1874–1959American etcher, oil painter, printmaker (1874–1959)
7 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
FG#3
Music
Florence Everilda Goodeve
1848–1916English composer and lyricist, often credited as Mrs Arthur Goodeve
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What Heysham is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 1 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Lancaster counts 119 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Heysham
Who is the most famous person from Heysham?
David Perkins (footballer (born 1982)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Gertrude Partington Albright and Florence Everilda Goodeve.
How many famous people were born in Heysham?
3 people born in Heysham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Heysham known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Heysham?
Florence Everilda Goodeve, born in 1848. The youngest on the list was born in 1982.
Who counts as from Heysham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Heysham’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)
- David Perkins: Ingy The Wingy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Owen: Lock and Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington (see [1], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter J. Ratcliffe: Secretaría de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva., CC BY 2.5 ar, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Hutton: Francis Perry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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