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Dan Burn
born 1992English association football player (born 1992)
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Famous people · Blyth, Northumberland
Of the 41 famous people born in Blyth, an unusual share are athletes
Articles in 41 languages make the English association football player Dan Burn the best known. Jean Heywood is second and Eddie King third. The largest group, 28, was born in the 20th century. From Ed Walker to Dan Burn, the births on the list run from 1874 to 1992.
Born here
41
notable people
Best known
Dan Burn
in 41 Wikipedia languages
First
1874
Ed Walker
Youngest
1992
Dan Burn
Most common field
Sports
34 people
What stands out about Blyth’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Blyth is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.7 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Blyth
Two of the three are athletes.
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Through the years
When Blyth’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1890s, with 7 people born in that decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Blyth
38 more, 32 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Ashington leads the towns around it, with 83 names.
Questions about famous people from Blyth
Who is the most famous person from Blyth?
Dan Burn (English association football player (born 1992)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 41 languages. Next come Jean Heywood and Eddie King.
How many famous people were born in Blyth?
41 people born in Blyth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 43 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Blyth known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 34 of the 41. That is 83% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Blyth?
Ed Walker, born in 1874. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Blyth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Blyth’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 (10)
- Dan Burn: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Fairhurst: DWF71, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ed Walker: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Lamb: Hreinn Gudlaugsson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Been Stannard: Tomlin, H W (Lt), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Brownlee: Nicolasbrownlee, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bobby Charlton: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Gooch: Thomas Dewell Scott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Sinton: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Loggie: Hans van Dijk for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
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