Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0Badby has no famous person on record yet
Just 3 mi away, Daventry’s list holds 13 names, William Westbrooke Burton the best known. 59 towns across Northamptonshire can name a famous person born there. Northampton has the most of any town in Northamptonshire: 354. After Northampton, the next longest list in Northamptonshire is Kettering’s, with 118.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Badby’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Badby yet.
Famous people born near Badby
Of the towns around it, Daventry has the most on record: 13.
Daventry · 3 miWilliam Westbrooke Burton & 12 moreMFLong Buckby · 7 miMarcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender & 2 moreSAByfield · 4 miStewart Adams & 1 more
Braunston · 4 miAndrew Garrad & 1 more
Weedon Bec · 4 miTom MacRaeSHFlore · 5 miSydney Ewart Hollingworth
Kilsby · 7 miThomas Richardson ColledgeWPPattishall and Astcote · 8 miWilliam PellQuestions about famous people from Badby
Who counts as from Badby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Badby’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 (4)
- William Westbrooke Burton: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Garrad: A2c3nd, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom MacRae: Lindsay Adams-Riley, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Richardson Colledge: George Chinnery, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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