Photo: Row17 · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in High Ercall has made the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Shrewsbury is 6 mi away: its list has 180, led by Charles Darwin. Shrewsbury’s 180 names make the longest list in Shropshire. After Shrewsbury, the next longest list in Shropshire is Telford’s, with 99. In Shropshire, 34 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in High Ercall’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in High Ercall yet.
Famous people born near High Ercall
The longest list nearby is Shrewsbury’s, with 180.
Shrewsbury · 6 miCharles Darwin & 179 more
Telford · 8 miBilly Wright & 98 moreJQNewport · 10 miJames Quibell & 9 morePVWem · 8 miPeter Vaughan & 5 more
Broseley · 11 miHermione Baddeley & 5 more
Bayston Hill · 9 miViolet Bland & 1 moreDPBaschurch · 11 miDave Pountney & 1 moreWHShawbury · 3 miWilliam HazledineQuestions about famous people from High Ercall
Who counts as from High Ercall?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside High Ercall’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
- Hermione Baddeley: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Violet Bland: Unknown. Photo provided by family of Violet Ann Bland., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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