Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Low Bentham has no famous person on record yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Settle, 11 mi away: 12, led by John Newman. Across North Yorkshire, 108 towns list someone born there. York has the most of any town in North Yorkshire: 396. After York, the next longest list in North Yorkshire is Middlesbrough’s, with 365.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Low Bentham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Low Bentham yet.
Famous people born near Low Bentham
The most names next door are in Settle: 12.
Questions about famous people from Low Bentham
Who counts as from Low Bentham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Low Bentham’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)
- John Newman: Adam Bielawski, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fiona Crackles: Natasha Iles, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Hutton: Francis Perry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Felix Borowski: National Photo Company Collection, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Lister: vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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