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Photo: MTRB · Public domainFamous people · Parbold, Lancashire
Parbold is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Articles in 5 languages make the British composer Hugh Wood the best known. The list has one more: the English embroidery and textile historian Margaret Swain. For more famous names, Ormskirk is 5 mi away: its list has 68, led by James Hopwood Jeans. The oldest name on the list belongs to Margaret Swain, born in 1909, the newest to Hugh Wood, born in 1932.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Hugh Wood
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1909
Margaret Swain
Youngest
1932
Hugh Wood
Most common field
Music
1 people
The best known
Born in Parbold
MS#2
Writing & Arts
Margaret Swain
1909–2002English embroidery and textile historian (1909-2002)
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What Parbold is known for
Music leads the fields, 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
Ormskirk leads the towns around it, with 68 names.
Ormskirk · 5 miJames Hopwood Jeans & 67 more
Orrell · 5 miCatherine Ashton & 23 moreJASkelmersdale · 3 miJohn Anderton & 8 moreRECroston · 5 miRobert Etherington & 5 moreBLBurscough · 3 miBobby Langton & 4 more
Eccleston · 4 miJohn Rigby & 3 more
Standish · 5 miAshley Slanina-Davies & 3 moreEPAppley Bridge · 3 miEva Pope & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Parbold
Who is the most famous person from Parbold?
Hugh Wood (British composer (1932–2021)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Margaret Swain.
How many famous people were born in Parbold?
2 people born in Parbold 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 Parbold known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 5% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Parbold?
Margaret Swain, born in 1909. The youngest on the list was born in 1932.
Who counts as from Parbold?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Parbold’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)
- James Hopwood Jeans: Kokorik (Uploader), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Catherine Ashton: ©House of Lords / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Rigby: Matthew, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ashley Slanina-Davies: Ian Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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