Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people near Linby: 32 in Hucknall
Not one famous person on record comes from Linby yet. 65 towns across Nottinghamshire can name a famous person born there. Nottingham’s 997 names make the longest list in Nottinghamshire. After Nottingham, the next longest list in Nottinghamshire is Mansfield’s, with 149.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Linby’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Linby yet.
Famous people born near Linby
Of the towns around it, Hucknall has the most on record: 32.
Hucknall · 1 miParis Lees & 31 more
Eastwood · 5 miD. H. Lawrence & 25 more
Kirkby-in-Ashfield · 4 miHarold Larwood & 20 more
Arnold · 5 miRichard Parkes Bonington & 17 more
Kimberley · 4 miJamie Peck & 11 more
Newstead · 2 miJohn Byron, 1st Baron Byron & 10 moreAJSelston · 4 miArthur Jepson & 7 moreCSBestwood Village · 2 miClarence SpencerQuestions about famous people from Linby
Who counts as from Linby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Linby’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)
- Paris Lees: Starseekers, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- D. H. Lawrence: Unknown authorUnknown author (passport office), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Larwood: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Parkes Bonington: Margaret Sarah Carpenter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Peck: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Byron, 1st Baron Byron: William Dobson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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