Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Melsonby
Just 7 mi away, Darlington’s list holds 176 names, James Morrison the best known. No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Melsonby. York’s 396 names make the longest list in North Yorkshire. 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 Melsonby’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Melsonby yet.
Famous people born near Melsonby
7 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Melsonby
Who counts as from Melsonby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Melsonby’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 (4)
- James Morrison: Warwick Gastinger, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lawrence: Maull and Polybank, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alistair Petrie: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wycliffe: Thomas Kirkby, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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