Photo: Small-town hero · Public domainNext door to Mere Brow, Southport lists 162 famous people
So far, no famous person on record was born in Mere Brow. No town in Lancashire lists more than Preston, with 346. After Preston, the next longest list in Lancashire is Blackburn’s, with 269. 73 towns across Lancashire can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Mere Brow’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Mere Brow yet.
Famous people born near Mere Brow
Around it, Southport has the most people on record, 162 of them.
Southport · 5 miMiranda Richardson & 161 moreRECroston · 4 miRobert Etherington & 5 moreBLBurscough · 5 miBobby Langton & 4 more
Tarleton and Hesketh Bank · 3 miNancy Rothwell & 3 more
Eccleston · 7 miJohn Rigby & 3 moreHWParbold · 7 miHugh Wood & 1 moreJBBanks · 2 miJack BallGFLongton · 6 miGuy FlanaganQuestions about famous people from Mere Brow
Who counts as from Mere Brow?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mere Brow’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 (3)
- Miranda Richardson: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy Rothwell: Manchester University Maths, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Rigby: Matthew, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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