Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Gretton has no famous person on record yet
Brendan Coyle tops the 17 names on record in Corby, 4 mi away. 59 towns across Northamptonshire can name a famous person born there. No town in Northamptonshire lists more than Northampton, with 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 Gretton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Gretton yet.
Famous people born near Gretton
Around it, Corby has the most people on record, 17 of them.
Corby · 4 miBrendan Coyle & 16 more
Oakham · 10 miTitus Oates & 10 more
Oundle · 9 miEbenezer Prout & 8 more
Uppingham · 4 miAda Goodrich Freer & 5 moreHWDesborough · 9 miHarold Walker & 3 moreLCGeddington · 7 miLen Chalmers & 1 moreCEKetton · 8 miCharles Ormston Eaton & 1 moreTBWeldon · 3 miTom BinderQuestions about famous people from Gretton
Who counts as from Gretton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gretton’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)
- Brendan Coyle: Moonfilmsvideo, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Titus Oates: Frederick Wentworth, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ebenezer Prout: Edward Bent Walker, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ada Goodrich Freer: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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