Photo: Tom Courtney · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Bilsthorpe has made the famous people list yet
Rebecca Adlington tops the 149 names on record in Mansfield, 7 mi away. No town in Nottinghamshire lists more than Nottingham, with 997. The Nottinghamshire lists hold names for 65 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Bilsthorpe’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Bilsthorpe yet.
Famous people born near Bilsthorpe
Of the towns nearby, Mansfield lists the most people: 149.
Mansfield · 7 miRebecca Adlington & 148 moreJOMansfield Woodhouse · 7 miJohn Ogdon & 6 moreECBlidworth · 4 miErnie Coleman & 3 more
Farnsfield · 2 miAugustus Charles Gregory & 1 more
New Ollerton and Ollerton · 5 miKathleen Frances Barker & 1 moreBFMarket Warsop · 7 miBruce French & 1 moreJHForest Town · 5 miJoseph HodgettsAPRavenshead · 6 miAnthony PalfremanQuestions about famous people from Bilsthorpe
Who counts as from Bilsthorpe?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bilsthorpe’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 (3)
- Rebecca Adlington: Rockybiggs, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Augustus Charles Gregory: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kathleen Frances Barker: Storye book, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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