Photo: Bikeboy · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Evenley
59 towns across Northamptonshire can name a famous person born there. Bicester, 7 mi off, can claim 21 famous people, the best known Kieran Bird. No entry yet names Evenley as a birthplace. The longest list of any town in Northamptonshire belongs to Northampton, with 354.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Evenley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Evenley yet.
Famous people born near Evenley
Of the towns nearby, Bicester lists the most people: 21.
Questions about famous people from Evenley
Who counts as from Evenley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Evenley’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)
- Kieran Bird: National Lottery Good Causes, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Otho Holand: Photo British Library; painted by or for William Bruges, Public domain, 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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