#1Sports
Lauren Hemp
born 2000English association football player (born 2000)
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Famous people · North Walsham, Norfolk
12 famous people were born in North Walsham, more of them athletes than in most towns
Articles in 31 languages make the English association football player Lauren Hemp the best known. Behind the leader come James Willstrop and Edward Carey. Since 1970, 7 were born, the most of any period. For every 10,000 residents there are 9.4 on the list, well above the typical Norfolk town’s 1.1.
Born here
12
notable people
Best known
Lauren Hemp
in 31 Wikipedia languages
First
1778
Ezekiel Blomfield
Youngest
2000
Lauren Hemp
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about North Walsham’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When North Walsham’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1970s, at 5.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What North Walsham is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.5 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in North Walsham
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Everyone else born in North Walsham
9 more, 7 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Cromer has the most on record: 12.
Questions about famous people from North Walsham
Who is the most famous person from North Walsham?
Lauren Hemp (English association football player (born 2000)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 31 languages. Next come James Willstrop and Edward Carey.
How many famous people were born in North Walsham?
12 people born in North Walsham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 15 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is North Walsham known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 9 of the 12. That is 75% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from North Walsham?
Ezekiel Blomfield, born in 1778. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from North Walsham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside North Walsham’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)
- Lauren Hemp: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Carey: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Dyson: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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
- Victoria Williamson: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Blofeld: SovalValtos, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Russell: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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