Photo: Ian Rob · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Barby is on the famous people list yet
Just 4 mi away, Rugby’s list holds 92 names, Rupert Brooke the best known. In all of Northamptonshire, the famous people on record come from 59 towns. The longest list of any town in Northamptonshire belongs to Northampton, with 354. Kettering has the second-longest list in Northamptonshire, after Northampton, with 118.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Barby’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Barby yet.
Famous people born near Barby
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Rugby · 4 miRupert Brooke & 91 more
Daventry · 5 miWilliam Westbrooke Burton & 12 moreMFLong Buckby · 5 miMarcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender & 2 more
Braunston · 3 miAndrew Garrad & 1 more
Kilsby · 1 miThomas Richardson ColledgeHACrick · 3 miHarry Adams
Dunchurch · 4 miKatharine MerryGPWest Haddon · 5 miGerry PerrymanQuestions about famous people from Barby
Who counts as from Barby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Barby’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)
- Rupert Brooke: British Government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Westbrooke Burton: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew Garrad: A2c3nd, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Richardson Colledge: George Chinnery, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Katharine Merry: Glen Bowman from Newcastle, England, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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