Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Setchey is listed yet
The neighbour with the longest list is King's Lynn, 4 mi away: 93, led by George Vancouver. 85 towns in Norfolk have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Norfolk belongs to Norwich, with 425. 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 Setchey’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Setchey yet.
Famous people born near Setchey
King's Lynn has the longest list next door: 93.
Questions about famous people from Setchey
Who counts as from Setchey?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Setchey’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 (1)
- George Vancouver: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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