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Photo: Roger Templeman · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Benson, Oxfordshire
2 famous people call Benson their birthplace
An article in one language makes the association football player Dick Spiers the best known so far. The only other name is the English socialist campaigner Joseph Lane. Jonathan Bailey heads the list in Wallingford, 2 mi away, which has 19 names. Born in 1851, Joseph Lane is the first name on record, and Dick Spiers, born in 1937, the most recent.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Dick Spiers
in 1 Wikipedia languages
First
1851
Joseph Lane
Youngest
1937
Dick Spiers
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Benson
JL#2
Politics & Law
Joseph Lane
1851–1920English socialist campaigner (1851–1920)
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Known for
What Benson is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 1.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Wallingford, with 19.
Questions about famous people from Benson
Who is the most famous person from Benson?
Dick Spiers (association football player (1937-2000)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come Joseph Lane.
How many famous people were born in Benson?
2 people born in Benson have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Benson known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Benson?
Joseph Lane, born in 1851. The youngest on the list was born in 1937.
Who counts as from Benson?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Benson’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 (3)
- Jonathan Bailey: LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Julian Holloway: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Empress Matilda: PurpleHz, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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