Photo: Steve Daniels · CC BY-SA 2.0Sonning Common has no famous person on record yet
Kate Winslet heads the list in Reading, 5 mi away, which has 387 names. In all of Oxfordshire, the famous people on record come from 68 towns. No town in Oxfordshire lists more than Oxford, with 707. 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 Sonning Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Sonning Common yet.
Famous people born near Sonning Common
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Reading · 5 miKate Winslet & 386 moreDTHenley-on-Thames · 3 miDavid Tomlinson & 36 more
Caversham · 3 miAnne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick & 8 more
Pangbourne · 5 miTracy Edwards & 3 moreBBWargrave · 5 miBert Bushnell & 2 moreDPTwyford · 6 miDennis Price & 2 moreKCGoring · 6 miKenneth Callow & 2 more
Sonning · 5 miRichard OttawayQuestions about famous people from Sonning Common
Who counts as from Sonning Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sonning Common’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 (4)
- Kate Winslet: Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick: John Rous, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tracy Edwards: TMF95, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Ottaway: Dean Calma / IAEA. Part of the IAEA Imagebank., CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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