Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Overton has yet to put a famous person on the list
The nearest list is in Lancaster, 3 mi away: 119 names, starting with Richard Owen. Across Lancashire, the lists cover 73 towns. The longest list of any town in Lancashire belongs to Preston, with 346. Blackburn has the second-longest list in Lancashire, after Preston, with 269.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Overton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Overton yet.
Famous people born near Overton
The neighbour with the most names is Lancaster, at 119.
Questions about famous people from Overton
Who counts as from Overton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Overton’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)
- 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
- David Perkins: Ingy The Wingy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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