#1Sports
Will Hayhurst
born 1994Irish association football player (born 1994)
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Famous people · Longridge, Lancashire
2 famous people were born in Longridge
The best known is the Irish association football player Will Hayhurst, with articles in 5 languages. The list has one more: the English entertainer John Farnworth. Within 6 mi, Preston lists the most: 346, with Phil Jones first. The earliest on the list is John Farnworth, born in 1986, and the youngest Will Hayhurst, born in 1994.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Will Hayhurst
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1986
John Farnworth
Youngest
1994
Will Hayhurst
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Longridge
#1#2Film, TV & Stage
John Farnworth
born 1986English entertainer (born 1986)
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Known for
What Longridge is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 1 people.
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
The longest list nearby is Preston’s, with 346.
Questions about famous people from Longridge
Who is the most famous person from Longridge?
Will Hayhurst (Irish association football player (born 1994)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come John Farnworth.
How many famous people were born in Longridge?
2 people born in Longridge have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Longridge known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Longridge?
John Farnworth, born in 1986. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Longridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Longridge’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)
- Will Hayhurst: biddleofnowhere, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Farnworth: chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Phil Jones: Matt Janzer from Missoula, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elizabeth Wallwork: Published in Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 7 March 1934, p.33; photographic studio Green and Hahn, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kathleen Ferrier: Polygoon Hollands Nieuws, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
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