Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0Hellifield has yet to put a famous person on the list
A short trip away, Skipton (9 mi) counts 34 famous people, Henry Sidgwick among them. 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. 108 towns in North Yorkshire have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hellifield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hellifield yet.
Famous people born near Hellifield
Of the towns around it, Skipton has the most on record: 34.
Skipton · 9 miHenry Sidgwick & 33 more
Settle · 5 miJohn Newman & 11 moreSLCarleton-in-Craven · 8 miSusanna Lister & 2 more
Gargrave · 5 miPeter Foxcroft & 1 moreHCBarnoldswick · 6 miHarry Crabtree & 1 moreWBEmbsay · 9 miWilfred Blake & 1 moreBHGrassington · 10 miBen Hills & 1 moreHAEarby · 7 miHarold AndrewsQuestions about famous people from Hellifield
Who counts as from Hellifield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hellifield’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)
- Henry Sidgwick: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Newman: Adam Bielawski, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Foxcroft: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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