EC#1
Sports
Edmund Crawford
1906–1977English footballer and manager (1906-1977)
8 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Photo: Stephen Craven · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Filey, North Yorkshire
Most of the 8 famous people born in Filey came into the world in the 20th century
Most widely known is Edmund Crawford, the English footballer and manager, with articles in 8 languages. The next two names are Andy Crawford and Arthur Mayo-Robson. The biggest group are athletes: 5. Only 21 of the 108 towns in North Yorkshire with anyone on record list more.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Edmund Crawford
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1853
Arthur Mayo-Robson
Youngest
1959
Andy Crawford
Most common field
Sports
5 people
The best known
Born in Filey
Two of the three are athletes.
AC#2
Sports
Andy Crawford
born 1959British association football player (born 1959)
5 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
AM#3
Science & Medicine
Arthur Mayo-Robson
1853–1933British surgeon (1853-1933)
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Filey’s famous people were born
The 1900s top the chart, with 3 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Filey is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 5 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Filey
Another 5, the earliest born in 1865.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Scarborough has the most people on record, 140 of them.
Questions about famous people from Filey
Who is the most famous person from Filey?
Edmund Crawford (English footballer and manager (1906-1977)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Andy Crawford and Arthur Mayo-Robson.
How many famous people were born in Filey?
8 people born in Filey have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Filey known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 8. That is 63% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Filey?
Arthur Mayo-Robson, born in 1853. The youngest on the list was born in 1959.
Who counts as from Filey?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Filey’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 (3)
- Charles Laughton: Clarence Sinclair Bull, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Heaton: JoshPopov, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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