Photo: Brookie at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person from Grendon yet, but Wellingborough next door has 36
Northampton has the most of any town in Northamptonshire: 354. After Northampton, the next longest list in Northamptonshire is Kettering’s, with 118. The Northamptonshire lists hold names for 59 towns. The best known born in Wellingborough is Thom Yorke.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Grendon’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Grendon yet.
Famous people born near Grendon
The neighbour with the most names is Wellingborough, at 36.
Questions about famous people from Grendon
Who counts as from Grendon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Grendon’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)
- Thom Yorke: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles James: Harold Augustus Iddles (1896-1976), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Le Fevre: Parliament of Victoria, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Archibald Robertson: A. Robertson (Miss), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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