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Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Rolleston, Nottinghamshire
The English cricketer Bill Ellis is the one famous person from Rolleston
Bill Ellis, the English cricketer, was born in 1919. That places their birth in the 20th century. Their name appears in articles in 3 languages. A short trip away, Newark-on-Trent (4 mi) counts 54 famous people, Rupert Sheldrake among them.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Bill Ellis
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1919
Bill Ellis
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Rolleston
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Newark-on-Trent has the longest list next door: 54.
Questions about famous people from Rolleston
Who is the most famous person from Rolleston?
Bill Ellis (English cricketer (1919-2007)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages.
How many famous people were born in Rolleston?
1 people born in Rolleston have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Rolleston known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Rolleston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rolleston’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)
- Rupert Sheldrake: Zereshk, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Whysall: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Augustus Charles Gregory: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frances Brooke: Catherine Read, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Walpole: Bain, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Cranmer: Gerlach Flicke, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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