Photo: Oliver Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Ouston is on the famous people list yet
Corbridge, 6 mi away, has 21 on its list, the best known Steve Bruce. The longest list of any town in Northumberland belongs to Ashington, with 83. After Ashington, the next longest list in Northumberland is Hexham’s, with 72. In Northumberland, 36 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ouston’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ouston yet.
Famous people born near Ouston
Corbridge leads the towns around it, with 21 names.
Corbridge · 6 miSteve Bruce & 20 more
Ryton · 6 miHoward Kendall & 19 more
Newburn · 6 miWilliam Hedley & 15 more
Prudhoe · 4 miBen Alnwick & 11 more
High Spen · 7 miStuart Bell & 8 moreEBCrawcrook and Greenside · 5 miErnest Beardshaw & 4 more
Ponteland · 5 miPeter Swinnerton-Dyer & 3 moreHSThrockley · 5 miHarry Smith & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Ouston
Who counts as from Ouston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ouston’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)
- Steve Bruce: Ronnie Macdonald, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Howard Kendall: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Hedley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ben Alnwick: Phil Butcher, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stuart Bell: Steve Punter, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Swinnerton-Dyer: Renate Schmid, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
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