Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Acaster Malbis is listed yet
W. H. Auden tops the 396 names on record in York, 4 mi away. 108 towns in North Yorkshire have at least one famous person on record. The longest list in North Yorkshire is York’s, with 396 names. After York, the next longest list in North Yorkshire is Middlesbrough’s, with 365.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Acaster Malbis’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Acaster Malbis yet.
Famous people born near Acaster Malbis
The neighbour with the most names is York, at 396.
York · 4 miW. H. Auden & 395 more
Tadcaster · 7 miKevin Barron & 15 more
Upper Poppleton · 6 miFlora Sandes & 2 morePPHuntington · 6 miPeter Pickering & 2 more
Bishopthorpe · 1 miGeorge Sandys & 1 more
Cawood · 5 miGeorge Montaigne & 1 more
Riccall · 5 miJoshua RoutledgeMHOsbaldwick · 5 miMarion Coates HansenQuestions about famous people from Acaster Malbis
Who counts as from Acaster Malbis?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Acaster Malbis’ 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 (6)
- W. H. Auden: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Barron: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Flora Sandes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Sandys: Robert Alonzo Brock, Virgil Anson Lewis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Montaigne: George Yate (active circa 1617-1622), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joshua Routledge: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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