Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Cononley has made the famous people list yet
Skipton, 3 mi away, has 34 on its list, the best known Henry Sidgwick. In all of North Yorkshire, the famous people on record come from 108 towns. No town in North Yorkshire lists more than York, with 396. 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 Cononley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Cononley yet.
Famous people born near Cononley
Nearby, Skipton has the most on record, with 34.
Skipton · 3 miHenry Sidgwick & 33 more
Silsden · 3 miDougie Lampkin & 6 moreABSteeton · 3 miArran Brindle & 4 moreSLCarleton-in-Craven · 2 miSusanna Lister & 2 more
Cross Hills · 2 miRichard Robson & 1 moreWBEmbsay · 4 miWilfred Blake & 1 more
Gargrave · 6 miPeter Foxcroft & 1 more
Sutton-in-Craven · 2 miBrian HargreavesQuestions about famous people from Cononley
Who counts as from Cononley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cononley’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 (5)
- Henry Sidgwick: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dougie Lampkin: Juan Fernández, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Robson: Karen Zhou, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Foxcroft: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Hargreaves: Pauls32, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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