Photo: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0Ranby has no famous person on record yet
Within 5 mi, Worksop lists the most: 95, with Donald Pleasence first. 65 of the towns in Nottinghamshire list at least one person. 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 Ranby’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ranby yet.
Famous people born near Ranby
Of the towns around it, Worksop has the most on record: 95.
Worksop · 5 miDonald Pleasence & 94 morePJRetford · 2 miPhilip Jackson & 18 morePDLangold · 6 miPercy Downes & 1 moreFSShireoaks · 7 miFrederick Stocks & 1 moreRFRanskill · 4 miRonald Malcolm FletcherHEBlyth · 4 miHenry EllisonDBCarlton in Lindrick · 6 miDavid BarberDPWalesby · 6 miDuncan PocklingtonQuestions about famous people from Ranby
Who counts as from Ranby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ranby’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 (1)
- Donald Pleasence: Allan Warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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