Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Northgate is on the famous people list yet
Just 4 mi away, Spalding’s list holds 24 names, Frank Pick the best known. In all of Lincolnshire, the famous people on record come from 100 towns. The longest list in Lincolnshire is Lincoln’s, with 211 names. 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 Northgate’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Northgate yet.
Famous people born near Northgate
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Bourne · 7 miWilliam Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley & 9 more
Donington · 6 miMatthew Flinders & 4 moreEHBillingborough · 7 miEric Houghton & 4 moreGBMoulton · 7 miG. D'Arcy Boulton & 1 moreMHPinchbeck · 3 miMaxey Holmes
Morton · 6 miGeorge Hussey PackeECDeeping St Nicholas · 7 miEverard CalthropQuestions about famous people from Northgate
Who counts as from Northgate?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Northgate’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)
- William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Flinders: Antoine Toussaint de Chazal, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Hussey Packe: Maull & Polyblank, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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