Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Thurgarton is listed yet
A short trip away, Carlton (7 mi) counts 23 famous people, Richard Beckinsale among them. In all of Nottinghamshire, the famous people on record come from 65 towns. The longest list in Nottinghamshire is Nottingham’s, with 997 names. Mansfield has the second-longest list in Nottinghamshire, after Nottingham, with 149.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Thurgarton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Thurgarton yet.
Famous people born near Thurgarton
The neighbour with the most names is Carlton, at 23.
Arnold · 7 miRichard Parkes Bonington & 17 more
Bingham · 6 miRobert Lowe & 11 moreAHCalverton · 5 miAmos Hind & 7 more
Radcliffe on Trent · 7 miGeorge Parr & 7 more
Woodborough · 4 miWilliam Whysall & 2 more
Farnsfield · 5 miAugustus Charles Gregory & 1 moreBBLowdham · 2 miBetty BeltonQuestions about famous people from Thurgarton
Who counts as from Thurgarton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Thurgarton’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 (5)
- Richard Parkes Bonington: Margaret Sarah Carpenter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Lowe: George Frederic Watts, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Parr: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Whysall: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Augustus Charles Gregory: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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