Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0Trawden has no famous person on record yet
A short trip away, Burnley (6 mi) counts 209 famous people, Ian McKellen among them. Across Lancashire, the lists cover 73 towns. Preston’s 346 names make the longest list in Lancashire. After Preston, the next longest list in Lancashire is Blackburn’s, with 269.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Trawden’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Trawden yet.
Famous people born near Trawden
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Trawden, with how many people each has.
Burnley · 6 miIan McKellen & 208 more
Nelson · 3 miMike Phelan & 34 more
Colne · 2 miWallace Hartley & 15 moreACBrierfield · 4 miAnna Cropper & 8 moreADBarrowford · 3 miArthur Dixon & 4 moreHCBarnoldswick · 6 miHarry Crabtree & 1 more
Cross Hills · 7 miRichard Robson & 1 moreHAEarby · 5 miHarold AndrewsQuestions about famous people from Trawden
Who counts as from Trawden?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Trawden’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)
- Ian McKellen: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mike Phelan: Saadick Dhansay, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Wallace Hartley: Wallace Henry Harvey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Robson: Karen Zhou, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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