Photo: Mark Shirley · CC BY 2.0No one born in Ashley has made the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Kettering is 9 mi away: its list has 118, led by Sienna Guillory. Northampton has the most of any town in Northamptonshire: 354. Across Northamptonshire, 59 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ashley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ashley yet.
Famous people born near Ashley
Close by, the fullest list is Kettering’s, at 118 names.
Kettering · 9 miSienna Guillory & 117 more
Corby · 5 miBrendan Coyle & 16 more
Market Harborough · 5 miJeremy Bulloch & 14 more
Rothwell · 6 miJim Dale & 6 more
Uppingham · 7 miAda Goodrich Freer & 5 moreHWDesborough · 5 miHarold Walker & 3 more
Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt · 7 miAnna Laetitia Barbauld & 1 moreLCGeddington · 8 miLen Chalmers & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Ashley
Who counts as from Ashley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ashley’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)
- Sienna Guillory: Helen Taylor, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Coyle: Moonfilmsvideo, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Bulloch: Corey Bond from United States, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Dale: Associated Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ada Goodrich Freer: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld: John Chapman (floruit 1792-1823), after Unknown artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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