Photo: Pauline E · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Wheldrake has made the famous people list yet
W. H. Auden tops the 396 names on record in York, 7 mi away. No town in North Yorkshire lists more than York, with 396. After York, the next longest list in North Yorkshire is Middlesbrough’s, with 365. Famous people are on record for 108 of the towns in North Yorkshire.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Wheldrake’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Wheldrake as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Wheldrake
The most names next door are in York: 396.
Questions about famous people from Wheldrake
Who counts as from Wheldrake?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Wheldrake’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 (3)
- W. H. Auden: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Sandys: Robert Alonzo Brock, Virgil Anson Lewis, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joshua Routledge: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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