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War Memorial · Photo: Peter Broster · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Oadby, Leicestershire
Oadby is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Articles in 3 languages make the British racewalker Philip Vesty the best known. Second place goes to the English footballer and manager Ralph Ward, third to Stu Williamson. Births span 1894 to 1963, from Frank Weston to Philip Vesty. Athletes make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Philip Vesty
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1894
Frank Weston
Youngest
1963
Philip Vesty
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Oadby
The three are covered in 3, 3 and 2 languages: Philip Vesty, Ralph Ward and Stu Williamson.
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Through the years
When Oadby’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1960s than in any other decade: 1.
SportsNotableWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Oadby is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Oadby
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Leicester, at 752.
Leicester · 3 miGary Lineker & 751 moreHPWigston · 2 miHenry Davis Pochin & 8 more
Blaby and Whetstone · 5 miCherry Vann & 5 moreCHEnderby and Narborough · 6 miChristopher Hibbert & 4 moreRJCosby · 6 miRay Julian & 3 moreCBCountesthorpe · 4 miCecil Boden & 2 more
Fleckney · 4 miJosh Knight & 1 more
Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt · 5 miAnna Laetitia Barbauld & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Oadby
Who is the most famous person from Oadby?
Philip Vesty (British racewalker) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Ralph Ward and Stu Williamson.
How many famous people were born in Oadby?
4 people born in Oadby have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Oadby known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Oadby?
Frank Weston, born in 1894. The youngest on the list was born in 1963.
Who counts as from Oadby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Oadby’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)
- Gary Lineker: Liton Ali, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cherry Vann: Church in Wales, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Josh Knight: Lovecookie22, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld: John Chapman (floruit 1792-1823), after Unknown artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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