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Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Hingham, Norfolk
2 famous people call Hingham their birthplace
Articles in 6 languages make the ancestor of Abraham lincoln Samuel Lincoln the best known. The other is Adam Hawkes. William Hyde Wollaston heads the list in Dereham, 7 mi away, which has 17 names. The list runs from Adam Hawkes, born in 1605, to Samuel Lincoln, born in 1622.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Samuel Lincoln
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1605
Adam Hawkes
Youngest
1622
Samuel Lincoln
The best known
Born in Hingham
AH#2
Notable
Adam Hawkes
1605–1671English immigrant/original settler of today's Saugus/Massachusetts/United States
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6 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Hingham
Who is the most famous person from Hingham?
Samuel Lincoln (ancestor of Abraham Lincoln) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Adam Hawkes.
How many famous people were born in Hingham?
2 people born in Hingham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Hingham?
Adam Hawkes, born in 1605. The youngest on the list was born in 1622.
Who counts as from Hingham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hingham’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 (2)
- William Hyde Wollaston: John Jackson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley: E. Passingham, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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