Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Mattishall is on the famous people list yet
Dereham, 4 mi away, has 17 on its list, the best known William Hyde Wollaston. The longest list of any town in Norfolk belongs to Norwich, with 425. After Norwich, the next longest list in Norfolk is Great Yarmouth’s, with 95. In Norfolk, 85 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Mattishall’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Mattishall yet.
Famous people born near Mattishall
Around it, Dereham has the most people on record, 17 of them.
Dereham · 4 miWilliam Hyde Wollaston & 16 more
Wymondham · 7 miJohn Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley & 7 moreDBTaverham and Drayton · 8 miDave Bussey & 3 moreAHSwanton Morley · 4 miArthur Hawes & 1 moreSLHingham · 6 miSamuel Lincoln & 1 moreNLShipdham · 6 miNorah Lofts & 1 moreGDNorth Elmham · 7 miGeorge Dickins & 1 moreRRHethersett · 7 miRussell Sidney ReeveQuestions about famous people from Mattishall
Who counts as from Mattishall?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mattishall’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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