The Old Vicarage · Photo: Andrew Curtis · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Ovingham has made the famous people list yet
Ryton, 4 mi away, has 20 on its list, the best known Howard Kendall. No town in Northumberland lists more than Ashington, with 83. After Ashington, the next longest list in Northumberland is Hexham’s, with 72. 36 towns across Northumberland can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ovingham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ovingham yet.
Famous people born near Ovingham
The longest list nearby is Ryton’s, with 20.
Ryton · 4 miHoward Kendall & 19 more
Newburn · 5 miWilliam Hedley & 15 moreRCChopwell · 4 miRonnie Cairns & 12 more
Prudhoe · 1 miBen Alnwick & 11 more
High Spen · 4 miStuart Bell & 8 more
Rowlands Gill · 6 miChris Ryan & 8 moreEBCrawcrook and Greenside · 3 miErnest Beardshaw & 4 moreACBlackhall Mill · 5 miAusten Campbell & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Ovingham
Who counts as from Ovingham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ovingham’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 (5)
- 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
- Chris Ryan: James English, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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