Photo: John Bradley · CC BY-SA 3.0Lydiate has no famous person on record yet
Jamie Carragher tops the 73 names on record in Bootle, 4 mi away. The longest list of any town in Merseyside belongs to Liverpool, with 2,441. After Liverpool, the next longest list in Merseyside is Birkenhead’s, with 334. Across Merseyside, the lists cover 25 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Lydiate’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Lydiate yet.
Famous people born near Lydiate
The longest list nearby is Bootle’s, with 73.
Bootle · 4 miJamie Carragher & 72 more
Ormskirk · 3 miJames Hopwood Jeans & 67 moreGGCrosby · 4 miGerald Gardner & 52 moreWCFormby · 5 miWilliam Guy Carr & 14 more
Knowsley · 6 miChristopher Wood & 9 moreABAintree · 3 miAndy Burnham & 7 more
Litherland · 4 miRoger McGough & 5 moreBLBurscough · 7 miBobby Langton & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Lydiate
Who counts as from Lydiate?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lydiate’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)
- Jamie Carragher: Ludovic Péron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Hopwood Jeans: Kokorik (Uploader), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Wood: Christopher Wood, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger McGough: Serine Ben Brahim, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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