Photo: Deben Dave at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Thompson has no famous person on record yet
Go 9 mi to Thetford and the list grows to 15, with Thomas Paine at the top. In Norfolk, 85 towns have someone on the list. 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.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Thompson’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Thompson yet.
Famous people born near Thompson
Close by, Thetford counts 15 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Thompson
Who counts as from Thompson?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Thompson’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)
- Thomas Paine: Auguste Millière / After George Romney / After William Sharp, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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