Photo: Graham Robson · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Hepscott is on the famous people list yet
Bobby Charlton tops the 83 names on record in Ashington, 4 mi away. No town in Northumberland lists more than Ashington, with 83. After Ashington, the next longest list in Northumberland is Hexham’s, with 72. Across Northumberland, 36 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hepscott’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hepscott yet.
Famous people born near Hepscott
Ashington leads the towns around it, with 83 names.
Ashington · 4 miBobby Charlton & 82 more
Morpeth · 2 miRobert Morrison & 45 more
Blyth · 5 miDan Burn & 40 more
Bedlington · 3 miDaniel Gooch & 25 more
Cramlington · 5 miAndy Sinton & 17 more
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea · 6 miDavid Loggie & 6 moreCBStakeford · 3 miCharlie Brown & 3 moreBKPegswood · 2 miBilly Kidd & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Hepscott
Who counts as from Hepscott?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hepscott’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)
- Bobby Charlton: Panini, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Morrison: John R. Wildman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Burn: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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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