Photo: Dave Thompson · CC BY-SA 2.0Gartree has no famous person on record yet
For more famous names, Market Harborough is 2 mi away: its list has 15, led by Jeremy Bulloch. The longest list of any town in Leicestershire belongs to Leicester, with 752. After Leicester, the next longest list in Leicestershire is Loughborough’s, with 58. Across Leicestershire, the lists cover 77 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Gartree’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Gartree yet.
Famous people born near Gartree
7 towns around it have someone on record.
Market Harborough · 2 miJeremy Bulloch & 14 more
Rothwell · 9 miJim Dale & 6 moreHWDesborough · 7 miHarold Walker & 3 morePVOadby · 8 miPhilip Vesty & 3 more
Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt · 3 miAnna Laetitia Barbauld & 1 more
Fleckney · 5 miJosh Knight & 1 more
Husbands Bosworth · 5 miEllis StanyonQuestions about famous people from Gartree
Who counts as from Gartree?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gartree’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)
- Jeremy Bulloch: Corey Bond from United States, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Dale: Associated Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld: John Chapman (floruit 1792-1823), after Unknown artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Josh Knight: Lovecookie22, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ellis Stanyon: Ellis Stanyon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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