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Photo: Gyrospite at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Bloxham, Oxfordshire
John Rogers is the only name on the Bloxham list
John Rogers was born in 1860. That places their birth in the Victorian era. Readers can find them written up in 3 languages. Of its neighbours, Banbury, 4 mi away, lists the most: 76, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin first.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
John Rogers
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1860
John Rogers
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Bloxham
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Banbury’s, with 76.
Banbury · 4 miAlan Lloyd Hodgkin & 75 more
Chipping Norton · 9 miWentworth Miller & 20 more
Brackley · 10 miOtho Holand & 7 more
Bodicote · 3 miJohn C. Austin & 2 moreHCHook Norton · 5 miHood Hanway Christian & 2 more
Kings Sutton · 4 miWilliam Lisle Bowles & 1 more
Middleton Cheney · 6 miLancelot Holland & 1 moreCCAdderbury and Twyford · 3 miCharles CobbQuestions about famous people from Bloxham
Who is the most famous person from Bloxham?
John Rogers (English cricketer born in 1860) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages.
How many famous people were born in Bloxham?
1 people born in Bloxham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bloxham known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Bloxham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bloxham’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)
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wentworth Miller: Andrew Horovitz, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Otho Holand: Photo British Library; painted by or for William Bruges, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John C. Austin: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Lisle Bowles: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lancelot Holland: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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