#1Sports
Victoria Williamson
born 1993British track cyclist and bobsledder
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Famous people · Hevingham, Norfolk
Hevingham counts 2 famous people, first among them Victoria Williamson
At the top of the list is the British track cyclist and bobsledder Victoria Williamson, covered in 13 languages. The other is Frederick Savage, the English engineer and inventor. The neighbour with the longest list is Aylsham, 3 mi away: 8, led by Joseph Thomas Clover. Over 165 years of births, the list goes from Frederick Savage (1828) to Victoria Williamson (1993).
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Victoria Williamson
in 13 Wikipedia languages
First
1828
Frederick Savage
Youngest
1993
Victoria Williamson
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Hevingham
#1#2Science & Medicine
Frederick Savage
1828–1897English engineer and inventor
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Known for
What Hevingham is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 1 of them.
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
Aylsham has the longest list next door: 8.
Questions about famous people from Hevingham
Who is the most famous person from Hevingham?
Victoria Williamson (British track cyclist and bobsledder) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 13 languages. Next come Frederick Savage.
How many famous people were born in Hevingham?
2 people born in Hevingham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Hevingham known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Hevingham?
Frederick Savage, born in 1828. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Hevingham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hevingham’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)
- Victoria Williamson: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Savage: Jsomerfield, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Thomas Clover: Photographer unknown, but apparently set up by and on behalf of Clover himself for publicity purposes. Uploaded by Chiswick Chap at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Barry Bridges: John Dobson, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Russell: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Blofeld: SovalValtos, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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