#1Notable
Gary Turner
born 1971Guinness world record holder - stretchiest skin
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Famous people · Caistor, Lincolnshire
10 famous people were born in Caistor, more of them athletes than in most towns
Best known of all is Gary Turner, written about in 7 languages. Second place goes to the English footballer Bill Appleyard, third to Fred Atkin. More than half were born in the Victorian era, 6 in all. The list is still growing: 2 were born since 1970.
Born here
10
notable people
Best known
Gary Turner
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1828
Marmaduke Dixon
Youngest
1988
Andy Taylor
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Caistor’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Caistor is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.6 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Caistor
Languages with an article: 7 for Gary Turner, 6 for Bill Appleyard, 5 for Fred Atkin.
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Sports
Fred Atkin
1886–1964English association football player (1887-1964)
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Through the years
When Caistor’s famous people were born
The 1880s top the chart, with 4 births in the decade.
SportsNotablePolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Caistor
7 more, 6 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Brigg, at 11.
Questions about famous people from Caistor
Who is the most famous person from Caistor?
Gary Turner (guinness world record holder - stretchiest skin) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Bill Appleyard and Fred Atkin.
How many famous people were born in Caistor?
10 people born in Caistor have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Caistor known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 8 of the 10. That is 80% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Caistor?
Marmaduke Dixon, born in 1828. The youngest on the list was born in 1988.
Who counts as from Caistor?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Caistor’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)
- Gary Turner: Howard Potts, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joan Plowright: Associated Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Little Heath: no coneguts, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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