Photo: Hugh Venables · CC BY-SA 2.0Sutton Bridge has no famous person on record yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Wisbech, 7 mi away: 38, led by William Godwin. 100 towns across Lincolnshire can name a famous person born there. Lincoln’s 211 names make the longest list in Lincolnshire. 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 Sutton Bridge’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Sutton Bridge yet.
Famous people born near Sutton Bridge
The longest list nearby is Wisbech’s, with 38.
Questions about famous people from Sutton Bridge
Who counts as from Sutton Bridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sutton Bridge’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 Godwin: Henry William Pickersgill, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norman Angell: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfred Piccaver: Unknown (Bain News Service, publisher), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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