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Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Bedale, North Yorkshire
7 famous people were born in Bedale, more of them athletes than in most towns
The best known is the cricketer Christopher Mace, with articles in 5 languages. John Mace and Roger Iddison follow. In the Georgian era, 4 were born, the most of any period. Per head, the list is long: 21.3 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in North Yorkshire has 4.3.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Christopher Mace
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1828
John Mace
Youngest
1905
Eva Askquith
Most common field
Sports
6 people
What stands out about Bedale’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Bedale’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1830s than in any other ten years, 3 in all.
SportsMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Bedale is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.7 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Bedale
By how many languages cover them, Christopher Mace comes first (5), then John Mace (4) and Roger Iddison (4).
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Bedale
Still to come: 4 more, from 1828 to 1905.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Northallerton counts 39 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Bedale
Who is the most famous person from Bedale?
Christopher Mace (cricketer (1830-1907)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come John Mace and Roger Iddison.
How many famous people were born in Bedale?
7 people born in Bedale have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bedale known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 6 of the 7. That is 86% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bedale?
John Mace, born in 1828. The youngest on the list was born in 1905.
Who counts as from Bedale?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bedale’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 (4)
- Michael Dawson: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bensutherland/, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alistair Petrie: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Darville: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wycliffe: Thomas Kirkby, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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