Photo: S Parish · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Hightown is on the famous people list yet
Within 8 mi, Southport lists the most: 162, with Miranda Richardson first. Famous people are on record for 25 of the towns in Merseyside. The longest list of any town in Merseyside belongs to Liverpool, with 2,441. Birkenhead has the second-longest list in Merseyside, after Liverpool, with 334.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hightown’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hightown yet.
Famous people born near Hightown
Nearby, Southport has the most on record, with 162.
Southport · 8 miMiranda Richardson & 161 moreOSWallasey · 7 miOlaf Stapledon & 113 more
Bootle · 5 miJamie Carragher & 72 more
Ormskirk · 7 miJames Hopwood Jeans & 67 moreGGCrosby · 3 miGerald Gardner & 52 moreWCFormby · 2 miWilliam Guy Carr & 14 moreABAintree · 6 miAndy Burnham & 7 more
Litherland · 4 miRoger McGough & 5 moreQuestions about famous people from Hightown
Who counts as from Hightown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hightown’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 (4)
- Miranda Richardson: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Carragher: Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Hopwood Jeans: Kokorik (Uploader), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger McGough: Serine Ben Brahim, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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