Photo: Adrian S Pye · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Old Leake yet, but Boston next door has 85
Lincoln’s 211 names make the longest list in Lincolnshire. After Lincoln, the next longest list in Lincolnshire is Grimsby’s, with 208. 100 towns across Lincolnshire can name a famous person born there. The best known born in Boston is John Foxe.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Old Leake’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Old Leake yet.
Famous people born near Old Leake
Close by, Boston counts 85 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Boston · 6 miJohn Foxe & 84 more
Spilsby · 10 miJohn Franklin & 6 moreFMKirton · 9 miFrancis Meres & 2 more
Sibsey · 3 miFrank Bramley & 1 moreESButterwick · 4 miEdmund Sheffield, 1st Baron Sheffield & 1 more
Fishtoft · 6 miBobby Mills & 1 more
Wainfleet All Saints · 8 miWilliam Waynflete
Burgh le Marsh · 11 miWilliam GossageQuestions about famous people from Old Leake
Who counts as from Old Leake?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Old Leake’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 (6)
- John Foxe: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Franklin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Bramley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bobby Mills: Unknown (Popperfoto), 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
- William Gossage: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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