Photo: Bill Nicholls · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Nettlebed yet, but Henley-on-Thames next door has 37
No town in Oxfordshire lists more than Oxford, with 707. Banbury has the second-longest list in Oxfordshire, after Oxford, with 76. 68 towns in Oxfordshire have at least one famous person on record. The best known born in Henley-on-Thames is David Tomlinson.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Nettlebed’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Nettlebed yet.
Famous people born near Nettlebed
The fullest list close by belongs to Henley-on-Thames, with 37.
Wallingford · 6 miJonathan Bailey & 18 more
Caversham · 7 miAnne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick & 8 moreKCGoring · 7 miKenneth Callow & 2 more
Watlington · 5 miJulian Holloway & 1 moreDSBenson · 6 miDick Spiers & 1 moreRHStokenchurch · 7 miRichard HickoxQuestions about famous people from Nettlebed
Who counts as from Nettlebed?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Nettlebed’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
- Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick: John Rous, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Julian Holloway: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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