Photo: Richard Vince · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Ingoldmells has made the famous people list yet
Skegness, 3 mi away, has 22 on its list, the best known Ray Clemence. Famous people are on record for 100 of the towns in Lincolnshire. No town in Lincolnshire lists more than Lincoln, with 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 Ingoldmells’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ingoldmells yet.
Famous people born near Ingoldmells
Close by, the fullest list is Skegness’, at 22 names.
Questions about famous people from Ingoldmells
Who counts as from Ingoldmells?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ingoldmells’ 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)
- Ray Clemence: Marcel Antonisse / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Anne Hutchinson: Edwin Austin Abbey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Franklin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Gossage: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Waynflete: Modern copy of contemporary portrait in Hall of New College, Oxford ). See photo of portrait [1], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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