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Famous people · Selston, Nottinghamshire
8 famous people were born in Selston, more of them athletes than in most towns
Articles in 6 languages make the footballer Arthur Jepson the best known. Haydn Hollis is second and Henry Martin third. More than half were born in the 20th century, 5 in all. Per head, the list is long: 12.7 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Nottinghamshire has 3.8.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Arthur Jepson
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1863
Richard Hardstaff
Youngest
1992
Haydn Hollis
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Selston’s famous people
The best known
Born in Selston
All three are athletes.
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Through the years
When Selston’s famous people were born
The 1910s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Selston
5 more names, born between 1863 and 1949.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Sutton in Ashfield has the longest list next door: 55.
Sutton in Ashfield · 4 miAlex Baptiste & 54 more
Kirkby-in-Ashfield · 3 miHarold Larwood & 20 moreABAlfreton · 4 miAlf Bentley & 16 moreESSomercotes and Swanwick · 3 miErnald Scattergood & 13 more
Huthwaite · 4 miAden Flint & 12 more
Newton and Blackwell · 4 miSophie Baggaley & 11 more
Newstead · 3 miJohn Byron, 1st Baron Byron & 10 more
South Normanton and Pinxton · 2 miJedediah Strutt & 8 moreQuestions about famous people from Selston
Who is the most famous person from Selston?
Arthur Jepson (footballer (1915-1997)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Haydn Hollis and Henry Martin.
How many famous people were born in Selston?
8 people born in Selston have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Selston known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 8 of the 8. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Selston?
Richard Hardstaff, born in 1863. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Selston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Selston’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 (8)
- Haydn Hollis: Skippo10, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Hardstaff: Photo by E Hawkins of Brighton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Baptiste: Jrppezza, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Larwood: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aden Flint: Ben Sutherland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sophie Baggaley: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Byron, 1st Baron Byron: William Dobson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jedediah Strutt: Joseph Wright of Derby, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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