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Photo: Rodhullandemu · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Greasby, Merseyside
3 famous people call Greasby their birthplace
Most widely known is John Bowe, the British actor, with articles in 8 languages. The next two names are Colin Whalley and Sam Ramsbottom. Glenda Jackson heads the list in Birkenhead, 3 mi away, which has 334 names. Born in 1941, Colin Whalley is the first name on record, and Sam Ramsbottom, born in 1996, the most recent.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
John Bowe
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1941
Colin Whalley
Youngest
1996
Sam Ramsbottom
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Greasby
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Sports
Sam Ramsbottom
born 1996British association football player (born 1996)
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Known for
What Greasby is known for
Share of Greasby’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Birkenhead has the longest list next door: 334.
Birkenhead · 3 miGlenda Jackson & 333 moreOSWallasey · 4 miOlaf Stapledon & 113 more
Bebington · 6 miLottie Dod & 81 more
Hoylake · 3 miChris Boardman & 18 more
Heswall · 3 miJohn Peel & 17 more
West Kirby · 2 miJoanna Scanlan & 16 more
Neston · 6 miTim Hunt & 9 more
Litherland · 8 miRoger McGough & 5 moreQuestions about famous people from Greasby
Who is the most famous person from Greasby?
John Bowe (British actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Colin Whalley and Sam Ramsbottom.
How many famous people were born in Greasby?
3 people born in Greasby have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Greasby known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Greasby?
Colin Whalley, born in 1941. The youngest on the list was born in 1996.
Who counts as from Greasby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Greasby’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
- Tim Hunt: Machmit (Machmit), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger McGough: Serine Ben Brahim, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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