Photo: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people from Cronton
John Lennon tops the 2,441 names on record in Liverpool, 7 mi away. Of the famous people on record, none was born in Cronton. The Merseyside lists hold names for 25 towns. The longest list of any town in Merseyside belongs to Liverpool, with 2,441.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Cronton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Cronton yet.
Famous people born near Cronton
Close by, Liverpool counts 2,441 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Liverpool · 7 miJohn Lennon & 2,440 more
St Helens · 4 miDavid Yates & 223 more
Widnes · 2 miCharles Glover Barkla & 79 more
Huyton with Roby · 4 miRex Harrison & 44 more
Prescot · 2 miSteven Gerrard & 39 more
Runcorn · 5 miHall Caine & 35 more
Newton-le-Willows · 7 miRick Astley & 24 more
Haydock · 6 miEdmund Arrowsmith & 11 moreQuestions about famous people from Cronton
Who counts as from Cronton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cronton’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)
- John Lennon: Tony Barnard, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Yates: Joella Marano, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Glover Barkla: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rex Harrison: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Steven Gerrard: Эдгар Брещанов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hall Caine: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rick Astley: Wjack12, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund Arrowsmith: Arrowsmith, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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