Photo: Mat Fascione · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Thornton has made the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Coalville is 5 mi away: its list has 17, led by Tom Hopper. The longest list in Leicestershire is Leicester’s, with 752 names. Loughborough has the second-longest list in Leicestershire, after Leicester, with 58. 77 of the towns in Leicestershire list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Thornton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Thornton yet.
Famous people born near Thornton
The fullest list close by belongs to Coalville, with 17.
Coalville · 5 miTom Hopper & 16 moreJBIbstock · 4 miJack Beattie & 9 moreTJRatby · 3 miThomas Jayes & 3 more
Groby · 3 miThomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset & 3 morePCLeicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe · 4 miPaul Culpin & 3 moreWBHugglescote · 4 miWalter Bird & 2 morePBBagworth · 2 miPeter Badham
Desford · 3 miFrank AdcockQuestions about famous people from Thornton
Who counts as from Thornton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Thornton’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 (3)
- Tom Hopper: Miguel Discart, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset: James William Edmund Doyle / Edmund Evans, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Adcock: Lafayette Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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