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Photo: David Clark · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Embsay, North Yorkshire
Embsay’s famous people span 101 years: 2 births from 1854 to 1955
Articles in 5 languages make the English cricketer Wilfred Blake the best known. The only other name is the British rock climber Ron Fawcett. Just 2 mi away, Skipton’s list holds 34 names, Henry Sidgwick the best known. The list’s best known name, Wilfred Blake, dates from 1854.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Wilfred Blake
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1854
Wilfred Blake
Youngest
1955
Ron Fawcett
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Embsay
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Known for
What Embsay is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 1 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Skipton, with 34.
Skipton · 2 miHenry Sidgwick & 33 more
Silsden · 5 miDougie Lampkin & 6 moreABSteeton · 6 miArran Brindle & 4 moreSLCarleton-in-Craven · 3 miSusanna Lister & 2 more
Gargrave · 4 miPeter Foxcroft & 1 more
Cross Hills · 5 miRichard Robson & 1 moreBHGrassington · 6 miBen Hills & 1 more
Sutton-in-Craven · 6 miBrian HargreavesQuestions about famous people from Embsay
Who is the most famous person from Embsay?
Wilfred Blake (English cricketer (1854-?)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Ron Fawcett.
How many famous people were born in Embsay?
2 people born in Embsay have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Embsay known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Embsay?
Wilfred Blake, born in 1854. The youngest on the list was born in 1955.
Who counts as from Embsay?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Embsay’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
- Peter Foxcroft: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Robson: Karen Zhou, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Hargreaves: Pauls32, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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