#1Famous people · Tockwith, North Yorkshire
Nigel Moore, born in 1992, is Tockwith’s famous person on record
Nigel Moore, the British racing driver, was born in 1992. Articles about them exist in 6 languages. Go 8 mi to Knaresborough and the list grows to 19, with Mother Shipton at the top. The North Yorkshire lists hold names for 108 towns.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Nigel Moore
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1992
Nigel Moore
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Tockwith
#1Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Tockwith, with how many people each has.
Knaresborough · 8 miMother Shipton & 18 more
Tadcaster · 6 miKevin Barron & 15 more
Wetherby · 5 miMichael Jackson & 8 more
Upper Poppleton · 6 miFlora Sandes & 2 moreGSBoston Spa · 5 miGrace Simpson & 1 more
Bramham · 6 miAugustus Pitt RiversGSSpofforth · 6 miGerald SmithsonJNSkelton (York) · 7 miJohn NelsonQuestions about famous people from Tockwith
Who is the most famous person from Tockwith?
Nigel Moore (British racing driver) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages.
How many famous people were born in Tockwith?
1 people born in Tockwith have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Tockwith known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Tockwith?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tockwith’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 (6)
- Nigel Moore: United Autosports, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mother Shipton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Barron: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Jackson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Flora Sandes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Augustus Pitt Rivers: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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