Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Swingate
M. Stanley Whittingham tops the 997 names on record in Nottingham, 4 mi away. No famous person on record lists Swingate as their birthplace yet. Across Nottinghamshire, 65 towns list someone born there. The longest list of any town in Nottinghamshire belongs to Nottingham, with 997.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Swingate’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Swingate yet.
Famous people born near Swingate
The fullest list close by belongs to Nottingham, with 997.
Nottingham · 4 miM. Stanley Whittingham & 996 moreRLIlkeston · 3 miRobert Lindsay & 41 more
Hucknall · 4 miParis Lees & 31 more
Heanor · 4 miHenry Garnet & 27 more
Eastwood · 2 miD. H. Lawrence & 25 more
Kimberley · 1 miJamie Peck & 11 more
Stapleford · 4 miSir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet & 6 moreCSBestwood Village · 4 miClarence SpencerQuestions about famous people from Swingate
Who counts as from Swingate?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Swingate’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)
- M. Stanley Whittingham: Stanford Energy, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paris Lees: Starseekers, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Garnet: anonymous, European School., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- D. H. Lawrence: Unknown authorUnknown author (passport office), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Peck: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet: Daniel Orme, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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