Photo: Rosalind Mitchell · CC BY-SA 2.0Caldy has no famous person on record yet
Across Merseyside, the lists cover 25 towns. Glenda Jackson heads the list in Birkenhead, 5 mi away, which has 334 names. No town in Merseyside lists more than Liverpool, with 2,441.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Caldy’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Caldy yet.
Famous people born near Caldy
Close by, the fullest list is Birkenhead’s, at 334 names.
Birkenhead · 5 miGlenda Jackson & 333 moreOSWallasey · 6 miOlaf Stapledon & 113 more
Bebington · 7 miLottie Dod & 81 more
Hoylake · 2 miChris Boardman & 18 more
Heswall · 3 miJohn Peel & 17 more
West Kirby · 1 miJoanna Scanlan & 16 more
Holywell · 6 miJonathan Pryce & 16 more
Neston · 6 miTim Hunt & 9 moreQuestions about famous people from Caldy
Who counts as from Caldy?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Caldy’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 (7)
- Glenda Jackson: Studio Publicity, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lottie Dod: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Boardman: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Peel: JP_BBC.jpg: Arno Matthias derivative work: January, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joanna Scanlan: Marcus Liversedge, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Pryce: Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Hunt: Machmit (Machmit), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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