Photo: Row17 · CC BY-SA 2.0Hadnall has no famous person on record yet
A short trip away, Shrewsbury (4 mi) counts 180 famous people, Charles Darwin among them. The longest list of any town in Shropshire belongs to Shrewsbury, with 180. Telford has the second-longest list in Shropshire, after Shrewsbury, with 99. 34 towns in Shropshire have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hadnall’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hadnall yet.
Famous people born near Hadnall
Shrewsbury has the longest list next door: 180.
Questions about famous people from Hadnall
Who counts as from Hadnall?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hadnall’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)
- Charles Darwin: Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Wright: Wim van Rossem for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Violet Bland: Unknown. Photo provided by family of Violet Ann Bland., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Crump: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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