Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Yarm is on the famous people list yet
Go 6 mi to Middlesbrough and the list grows to 365, with James Cook at the top. The North Yorkshire lists hold names for 108 towns. The longest list of any town in North Yorkshire belongs to York, with 396.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Yarm’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Yarm yet.
Famous people born near Yarm
Nearby, Middlesbrough has the most on record, with 365.
Middlesbrough · 6 miJames Cook & 364 more
Stockton-on-Tees · 5 miColin Renfrew & 218 more
Billingham · 8 miJamie Bell & 24 more
Egglescliffe · 2 miCec Parkin & 3 moreARStokesley · 7 miAlf Rowland & 1 moreDHHurworth-on-Tees · 7 miDon Harnby & 1 more
Stillington · 8 miAnthony Carlisle & 1 moreNTIngleby Barwick · 2 miNathan ThomasQuestions about famous people from Yarm
Who counts as from Yarm?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Yarm’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)
- James Cook: Nathaniel Dance-Holland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin Renfrew: Portable Antiquities Scheme from London, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Bell: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cec Parkin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anthony Carlisle: Henry Bone (6 Feb 1755-17 Dec 1834), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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