Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Lubenham has no famous person on record yet
Of its neighbours, Market Harborough, 2 mi away, lists the most: 15, Jeremy Bulloch first. 77 towns in Leicestershire have at least one famous person on record. Leicester has the most of any town in Leicestershire: 752. After Leicester, the next longest list in Leicestershire is Loughborough’s, with 58.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Lubenham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Lubenham yet.
Famous people born near Lubenham
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Lubenham, with how many people each has.
Market Harborough · 2 miJeremy Bulloch & 14 more
Rothwell · 8 miJim Dale & 6 moreHWDesborough · 7 miHarold Walker & 3 moreCBCountesthorpe · 9 miCecil Boden & 2 more
Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt · 4 miAnna Laetitia Barbauld & 1 more
Fleckney · 5 miJosh Knight & 1 more
Husbands Bosworth · 4 miEllis StanyonQuestions about famous people from Lubenham
Who counts as from Lubenham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lubenham’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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