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Famous people · Spalding, Lincolnshire
Spalding’s famous people span 204 years: 24 births from 1797 to 2001
Articles in 7 languages make the British transport administrator Frank Pick the best known. 9 of them were born in the 20th century, more than in any other period. The list’s best known name, Frank Pick, dates from 1878. For every 10,000 residents there are 7.9 on the list, well above the typical Lincolnshire town’s 2.6.
Born here
24
notable people
Best known
Frank Pick
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1797
Sarah Bennett
Youngest
2001
Will Wand
Most common field
Sports
9 people
The best known
Born in Spalding
Languages with an article: 7 for Frank Pick, 7 for Johnathan Hoggard, 5 for Tim Inskip.
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Sports
Tim Inskip
1885–1971English cricketer and British army officer (1885-1971)
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Through the years
When Spalding’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1880s than in any other decade: 4.
SportsMilitaryPolitics & LawNotableWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineBusinessMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Spalding is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as soldiers and sailors, at 3.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Spalding
21 more, from 1797 to 2001.
Arthur Ward
1906–1993New Zealand accountant, dairy researcher and administrator, company director, university chancellor
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Leon Atkin
1902–1976Minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales (1902-1976)
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E. E. Cammack
1881–1958NotableWikipedia ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Holbeach’s, at 14 names.
Questions about famous people from Spalding
Who is the most famous person from Spalding?
Frank Pick (British transport administrator) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Johnathan Hoggard and Tim Inskip.
How many famous people were born in Spalding?
24 people born in Spalding have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 27 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Spalding known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 9 of the 24. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Spalding?
Sarah Bennett, born in 1797. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Spalding?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Spalding’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 (12)
- Johnathan Hoggard: Lukas Raich, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John William Fordham Johnson: Government of British Columbia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Bush: Institut Ramon Llull, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Ward: Photographer unknown, CC BY 3.0 nz, Wikimedia Commons
- Will Wand: TheRugbyBoy, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Lazenby: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leon Atkin: Geoff Charles, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Miranda Sykes: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Johnson: Railway Magazine, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Bennett: unknown maybe 1840, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norman Angell: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Flinders: Antoine Toussaint de Chazal, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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