Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Hilton has no famous person on record yet
Within 4 mi, Middlesbrough lists the most: 365, with James Cook first. York’s 396 names make the longest list in North Yorkshire. Across North Yorkshire, the lists cover 108 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hilton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hilton yet.
Famous people born near Hilton
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Middlesbrough · 4 miJames Cook & 364 more
Stockton-on-Tees · 6 miColin Renfrew & 218 more
Eston · 7 miPaul Daniels & 36 more
Egglescliffe · 3 miCec Parkin & 3 moreARStokesley · 4 miAlf Rowland & 1 more
Great Ayton · 6 miCharlie Tanfield & 1 moreNTIngleby Barwick · 2 miNathan ThomasRHHutton Rudby · 3 miRusty HodgsonQuestions about famous people from Hilton
Who counts as from Hilton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hilton’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)
- James Cook: Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin Renfrew: Portable Antiquities Scheme from London, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Daniels: eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cec Parkin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Tanfield: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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