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Famous people · Aintree, Merseyside
Of the 8 famous people born in Aintree, none is better known than Andy Burnham
87 languages have an article about the British politician Andy Burnham. Thomas Cannon is second and Alex Curran third. Since 1970, 4 were born, the most of any period. The list comes to 12.9 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Merseyside, at 10.1.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Andy Burnham
in 87 Wikipedia languages
First
1896
Ronald Sugden
Youngest
2002
Thomas Cannon
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
3 people
What stands out about Aintree’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Aintree
Andy Burnham has articles in 87 languages, Thomas Cannon in 10 and Alex Curran in 6.
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Through the years
When Aintree’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2 births.
Film, TV & StageSportsPolitics & LawFaithScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Aintree is known for
Aintree has 4.4× the usual share of performers.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Aintree
The other 5 span the years 1896 to 1989.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Aintree, with how many people each has.
Liverpool · 5 miJohn Lennon & 2,440 more
Bootle · 2 miJamie Carragher & 72 more
Ormskirk · 6 miJames Hopwood Jeans & 67 moreGGCrosby · 3 miGerald Gardner & 52 more
Huyton with Roby · 6 miRex Harrison & 44 more
Knowsley · 4 miChristopher Wood & 9 more
Litherland · 3 miRoger McGough & 5 moreDORainford · 6 miDanny O'Donnell & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Aintree
Who is the most famous person from Aintree?
Andy Burnham (British politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 87 languages. Next come Thomas Cannon and Alex Curran.
How many famous people were born in Aintree?
8 people born in Aintree have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 9 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Aintree known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 3 of the 8. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Aintree?
Ronald Sugden, born in 1896. The youngest on the list was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Aintree?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Aintree’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 (8)
- Thomas Cannon: Timfilbert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Gower: Minkerbelle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lennon: Tony Barnard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Carragher: Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Hopwood Jeans: Kokorik (Uploader), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rex Harrison: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Wood: Christopher Wood, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger McGough: Serine Ben Brahim, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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