Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Costock has no famous person on record yet
Loughborough, 5 mi away, has 58 on its list, the best known Hamza Choudhury. No town in Nottinghamshire lists more than Nottingham, with 997. After Nottingham, the next longest list in Nottinghamshire is Mansfield’s, with 149. Across Nottinghamshire, 65 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Costock’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Costock yet.
Famous people born near Costock
The longest list nearby is Loughborough’s, with 58.
Loughborough · 5 miHamza Choudhury & 57 moreJSRuddington · 4 miJohn Sharpe & 14 more
Keyworth · 4 miWilliam Attewell & 9 more
Clifton · 5 miViv Anderson & 7 more
Barrow upon Soar · 5 miJohnnie Johnson & 7 moreFJHathern · 5 miFrederick Randon, Jr. & 1 more
East Leake · 1 miAlbert HallamIBWymeswold · 3 miIvor BrownQuestions about famous people from Costock
Who counts as from Costock?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Costock’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)
- Hamza Choudhury: Timmy96, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Attewell: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Viv Anderson: Koen Suyk / Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johnnie Johnson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Albert Hallam: Photo by E Hawkins of Brighton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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