Photo: Mike Pennington · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Kirkby has made the famous people list yet
Nearby, Liverpool, 6 mi away, lists 2,441, led by John Lennon. In all of Merseyside, the famous people on record come from 25 towns. Liverpool has the most of any town in Merseyside: 2,441. After Liverpool, the next longest list in Merseyside is Birkenhead’s, with 334.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Kirkby’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Kirkby yet.
Famous people born near Kirkby
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Kirkby, with how many people each has.
Liverpool · 6 miJohn Lennon & 2,440 more
Bootle · 4 miJamie Carragher & 72 more
Ormskirk · 5 miJames Hopwood Jeans & 67 moreGGCrosby · 5 miGerald Gardner & 52 more
Huyton with Roby · 5 miRex Harrison & 44 more
Prescot · 6 miSteven Gerrard & 39 more
Knowsley · 3 miChristopher Wood & 9 moreABAintree · 2 miAndy Burnham & 7 moreQuestions about famous people from Kirkby
Who counts as from Kirkby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kirkby’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 (6)
- 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
- Steven Gerrard: Эдгар Брещанов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Wood: Christopher Wood, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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