Photo: Ian Carrington · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Canwick, Lincoln lists 211 famous people
Across Lincolnshire, the lists cover 100 towns. No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Canwick. Lincoln has the most of any town in Lincolnshire: 211. After Lincoln, the next longest list in Lincolnshire is Grimsby’s, with 208.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Canwick’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Canwick yet.
Famous people born near Canwick
The fullest list close by belongs to Lincoln, with 211.
Lincoln · 1 miGeorge Boole & 210 moreECBranston · 2 miElla Rose Curtois & 2 more
Waddington · 3 miBob Evans & 1 moreGBBracebridge Heath · 2 miGeorge BeelJRWashingborough and Heighington · 2 miJoe RabySJNettleham · 4 miSimon Jones
Skellingthorpe · 4 miSteven HallworthSBSudbrooke · 5 miSir Richard Sutton, 4th BaronetQuestions about famous people from Canwick
Who counts as from Canwick?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Canwick’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)
- George Boole: Samuel Prout Newcombe (c1824-1912), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Evans: Lelièvre Jean-Philippe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steven Hallworth: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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