#1Film, TV & Stage
Paul Daniels
1938–2016Magician and TV Personality (1938–2016)
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Famous people · Eston, North Yorkshire
From 1803 to 1999, Eston was the birthplace of 37 famous people
At the top of the list is the magician and TV personality Paul Daniels, covered in 14 languages. 4 were born in 1970 or later. Fewer than a quarter of the 108 towns in North Yorkshire with famous people list more. The biggest group are athletes: 26.
Born here
37
notable people
Best known
Paul Daniels
in 14 Wikipedia languages
First
1803
William Baillie-Hamilton
Youngest
1999
Tyrone O'Neill
Most common field
Sports
26 people
The best known
Born in Eston
Three names lead: Paul Daniels (14 languages), Rob Smedley (11) and Colin Dobson (7).
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Through the years
When Eston’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1880s come out on top, with 10 births.
SportsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawMilitaryNotableBusinessWriting & ArtsFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Eston is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Eston
Another 34, the earliest born in 1803.
Joseph Charles Stoddart
1932–2019English anaesthetist and intensive care specialist
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Middlesbrough leads the towns around it, with 365 names.
Middlesbrough · 3 miJames Cook & 364 more
Redcar · 4 miChris Norman & 32 more
Guisborough · 4 miJohn Gilbert Baker & 26 more
Billingham · 6 miJamie Bell & 24 more
Saltburn-by-the-Sea · 7 miDavid Coverdale & 17 moreACMarske-by-the-Sea · 6 miAshley Corker & 2 more
Great Ayton · 5 miCharlie Tanfield & 1 moreARStokesley · 7 miAlf Rowland & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Eston
Who is the most famous person from Eston?
Paul Daniels (magician and TV Personality (1938–2016)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 14 languages. Next come Rob Smedley and Colin Dobson.
How many famous people were born in Eston?
37 people born in Eston have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Eston known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 26 of the 37. That is 70% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Eston?
William Baillie-Hamilton, born in 1803. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Eston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Eston’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 (16)
- Paul Daniels: eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Smedley: Engyles, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Horace King, Baron Maybray-King: Jens Gathmann, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Curtis: Thebees1889, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Wardall: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Baillie-Hamilton: Stephen Pearce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Henry Short: Gallagher Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Charles Stoddart: History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, CC BY 3.0 us, Wikimedia Commons
- Hughie McMahon: Nationaal Archief, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Musto: Africanfuturist, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Cook: Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Norman: Elke Wetzig Elya, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Gilbert Baker: Berthold Carl Seemann (1825-1871), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Bell: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Coverdale: Ralph Arvesen, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Tanfield: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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