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Photo: Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Highley, Shropshire
3 famous people were born in Highley
Aubrey Scriven, the English footballer, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. Behind the leader come Mark Humphries and Stan Jones. The neighbour with the longest list is Kidderminster, 8 mi away: 61, led by Peter Collins. The list comes to 9.1 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Shropshire, at 6.2.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Aubrey Scriven
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1904
Aubrey Scriven
Youngest
1965
Mark Humphries
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Highley
The three are covered in 4, 4 and 1 languages: Aubrey Scriven, Mark Humphries and Stan Jones.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Highley, with how many people each has.
Kidderminster · 8 miPeter Collins & 60 more
Bridgnorth · 6 miThomas Percy & 28 more
Stourport-on-Severn · 9 miRay Thomas & 11 more
Bewdley · 6 miStanley Baldwin & 10 more
Kinver · 7 miNancy Price & 2 moreIPWombourne · 10 miIan Painter & 1 moreDHAlveley · 2 miDavid HumphriesKJCookley · 7 miKenneth St JosephQuestions about famous people from Highley
Who is the most famous person from Highley?
Aubrey Scriven (English footballer (1904-1988)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Mark Humphries and Stan Jones.
How many famous people were born in Highley?
3 people born in Highley have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Highley known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 3. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Highley?
Aubrey Scriven, born in 1904. The youngest on the list was born in 1965.
Who counts as from Highley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Highley’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 (5)
- Peter Collins: Jitesh Jagadish from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Percy: J. Hawksworth after a painting by Lemuel Abbott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ray Thomas: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989 - negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.24.01.05, bestanddeelnummer 923-9509, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stanley Baldwin: Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy Price: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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