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Photo: Ian Taylor · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Nether Kellet, Lancashire
Ben Greenwood, born in 1984, is Nether Kellet’s famous person on record
The English racing cyclist Ben Greenwood was born in 1984. Their name appears in articles in 6 languages. Lancaster, 4 mi off, can claim 119 famous people, the best known Richard Owen. Across Lancashire, 73 towns list someone born there.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Ben Greenwood
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1984
Ben Greenwood
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Nether Kellet
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Lancaster has the most on record, with 119.
Questions about famous people from Nether Kellet
Who is the most famous person from Nether Kellet?
Ben Greenwood (English racing cyclist) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages.
How many famous people were born in Nether Kellet?
1 people born in Nether Kellet have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Nether Kellet known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Nether Kellet?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Nether Kellet’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)
- 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
- David Perkins: Ingy The Wingy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Felix Borowski: National Photo Company Collection, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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