Photo: Dave Kelly · CC BY-SA 2.0Black Bourton has yet to put a famous person on the list
For more famous names, Witney is 5 mi away: its list has 18, led by Emma Appleton. 68 towns across Oxfordshire can name a famous person born there. The longest list in Oxfordshire is Oxford’s, with 707 names. After Oxford, the next longest list in Oxfordshire is Banbury’s, with 76.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Black Bourton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Black Bourton yet.
Famous people born near Black Bourton
The longest list nearby is Witney’s, with 18.
Questions about famous people from Black Bourton
Who counts as from Black Bourton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Black Bourton’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)
- Charles Lapworth: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Whitaker: Photographer unidentified, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Beechey: William Beechey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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