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Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Weldon, Northamptonshire
The English footballer Tom Binder is the one famous person from Weldon
Tom Binder, the English footballer, was born in 1889. Their birth falls in the Victorian era. Readers can find them written up in 4 languages. Just 8 mi away, Kettering’s list holds 118 names, Sienna Guillory the best known.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Tom Binder
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1889
Tom Binder
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Weldon
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Kettering, at 118.
Kettering · 8 miSienna Guillory & 117 more
Corby · 3 miBrendan Coyle & 16 more
Oundle · 7 miEbenezer Prout & 8 more
Rothwell · 9 miJim Dale & 6 more
Uppingham · 7 miAda Goodrich Freer & 5 moreEGThrapston · 8 miEliza Standerwick Gregory & 5 moreLCGeddington · 5 miLen Chalmers & 1 more
Woodford · 8 miGeorge Edmund Street & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Weldon
Who is the most famous person from Weldon?
Tom Binder (English footballer (1889-1969)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages.
How many famous people were born in Weldon?
1 people born in Weldon have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Weldon known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Weldon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Weldon’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 (6)
- Sienna Guillory: Helen Taylor, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Coyle: Moonfilmsvideo, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ebenezer Prout: Edward Bent Walker, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Dale: Associated Press, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ada Goodrich Freer: AnonymousUnknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Edmund Street: Frederick Waddy, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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