Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0Needham has yet to put a famous person on the list
A short trip away, Diss (7 mi) counts 8 famous people, Declan Rudd among them. 85 of the towns in Norfolk list at least one person. The longest list in Norfolk is Norwich’s, with 425 names. Great Yarmouth has the second-longest list in Norfolk, after Norwich, with 95.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Needham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Needham yet.
Famous people born near Needham
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Needham
Who counts as from Needham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Needham’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 (7)
- Declan Rudd: Preston_North_End_v_Liverpool_FC_-_July_2013.jpg: Ross Bradley derivative work: Dudek1337, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Upson: Paul Blank, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Susanna Moodie: Hephaestos at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Beatrix Havergal: Cecil Beaton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Ward: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Walton: Henry Walton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Matilda Betham: Unknown - subject died 1852, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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