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Otho Holand
1316–1359English soldier and Knight of the Garter
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Famous people · Brackley, Northamptonshire
Brackley’s famous people span 657 years: 8 births from 1316 to 1973
The best known is the English soldier and Knight of the Garter Otho Holand, with articles in 6 languages. In the Victorian era, 4 were born, the most of any period. The list comes to 4.9 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Northamptonshire, at 3.4. Only 7 of the 59 towns in Northamptonshire with anyone on record list more.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Otho Holand
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1316
Otho Holand
Youngest
1973
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Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
The best known
Born in Brackley
First, Otho Holand (6 languages), then Edward Davis (5) and Helen Farquhar (4).
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Through the years
When Brackley’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1850s, with 2 people born in that decade.
Writing & ArtsMilitarySportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Brackley is known for
Set against the usual town, writers and artists come out 3.2 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Brackley
5 more names, born between 1846 and 1973.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Banbury has the most on record: 76.
Questions about famous people from Brackley
Who is the most famous person from Brackley?
Otho Holand (English soldier and Knight of the Garter) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Edward Davis and Helen Farquhar.
How many famous people were born in Brackley?
8 people born in Brackley have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 11 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Brackley known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 3 of the 8. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 12% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Brackley?
Otho Holand, born in 1316. The youngest on the list was born in 1973.
Who counts as from Brackley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Brackley’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 (7)
- Otho Holand: Photo British Library; painted by or for William Bruges, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Higham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kieran Bird: National Lottery Good Causes, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John C. Austin: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Lisle Bowles: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lancelot Holland: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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