Photo: Gordon Griffiths · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Hilton, Bridgnorth lists 29 famous people
No famous person’s birth in Hilton is on record yet. The Shropshire lists hold names for 34 towns. The longest list in Shropshire is Shrewsbury’s, with 180 names. After Shrewsbury, the next longest list in Shropshire is Telford’s, with 99.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hilton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hilton yet.
Famous people born near Hilton
Of the towns nearby, Bridgnorth lists the most people: 29.
Bridgnorth · 4 miThomas Percy & 28 more
Shifnal · 8 miHannah Cullwick & 7 more
Broseley · 7 miHermione Baddeley & 5 more
Codsall · 8 miWilliam Regal & 3 moreASHighley · 8 miAubrey Scriven & 2 more
Kinver · 8 miNancy Price & 2 more
Albrighton · 6 miDavid C. H. Austin & 1 moreIPWombourne · 6 miIan Painter & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Hilton
Who counts as from Hilton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hilton’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 (6)
- Thomas Percy: J. Hawksworth after a painting by Lemuel Abbott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hannah Cullwick: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hermione Baddeley: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Regal: Jjron, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy Price: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David C. H. Austin: Nongdanchanto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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