#1Famous people · Tadcaster, North Yorkshire
Most of the 16 famous people born in Tadcaster came into the world in the 20th century
At the top of the list is the British politician Kevin Barron, covered in 9 languages. Owen Oglethorpe is second and Felicity Lane-Fox third. The list comes to 25.2 for every 10,000 residents, against 4.3 in the typical town in North Yorkshire. Only 17 of the 108 towns in North Yorkshire with anyone on record list more.
Born here
16
notable people
Best known
Kevin Barron
in 9 Wikipedia languages
First
1502
Owen Oglethorpe
Youngest
1993
Jonny Maxted
Most common field
Sports
10 people
The best known
Born in Tadcaster
Leaders take two of the three places.
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#3Politics & Law
Felicity Lane-Fox
1918–1988British life peer (1918-1988)
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Tadcaster’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1940s, at 2.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineBusinessMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Tadcaster is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 2.1 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Tadcaster
A further 13 follow, born between 1774 and 1993.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Wetherby leads the towns around it, with 9 names.
Questions about famous people from Tadcaster
Who is the most famous person from Tadcaster?
Kevin Barron (British politician (born 1946)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Owen Oglethorpe and Felicity Lane-Fox.
How many famous people were born in Tadcaster?
16 people born in Tadcaster have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 20 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Tadcaster known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 10 of the 16. That is 63% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Tadcaster?
Owen Oglethorpe, born in 1502. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Tadcaster?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tadcaster’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 (10)
- Kevin Barron: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Felicity Lane-Fox: Shamanken, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Westaby: Munsterbusiness.ie, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Potter: Artist Samuel William Reynolds the younger, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Jackson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edwin Markham: Leslie Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Montaigne: George Yate (active circa 1617-1622), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Augustus Pitt Rivers: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nigel Moore: United Autosports, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Vassall: Reginald Grenville Eves, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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