Photo: Row17 · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Ackleton is on the famous people list yet
Just 9 mi away, Telford’s list holds 99 names, Billy Wright the best known. Shrewsbury’s 180 names make the longest list in Shropshire. 34 towns in Shropshire have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ackleton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ackleton yet.
Famous people born near Ackleton
The neighbour with the most names is Telford, at 99.
Telford · 9 miBilly Wright & 98 more
Bridgnorth · 5 miThomas Percy & 28 more
Shifnal · 6 miHannah Cullwick & 7 more
Much Wenlock · 9 miMary Beard & 7 more
Broseley · 6 miHermione Baddeley & 5 more
Codsall · 7 miWilliam Regal & 3 more
Albrighton · 4 miDavid C. H. Austin & 1 moreIPWombourne · 7 miIan Painter & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Ackleton
Who counts as from Ackleton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ackleton’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 (7)
- Billy Wright: Wim van Rossem for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Percy: J. Hawksworth after a painting by Lemuel Abbott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hannah Cullwick: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Beard: UC3M (youtube), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hermione Baddeley: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Regal: Jjron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David C. H. Austin: Nongdanchanto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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