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Famous people · Hodnet, Shropshire
Hodnet’s famous people span 419 years: 4 births from 1495 to 1914
The best known is the English footballer Tom Bush, with articles in 8 languages. Second place goes to the English Classical scholar George Campbell Macaulay, third to Richard Hill. The list’s best known name, Tom Bush, dates from 1914. Shrewsbury has the most of any town in Shropshire: 180.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Tom Bush
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1495
Rowland Hill
Youngest
1914
Tom Bush
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Hodnet
Tom Bush, George Campbell Macaulay and Richard Hill are written about in 8, 4 and 3 languages.
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Science & Medicine
George Campbell Macaulay
1852–1915English Classical scholar
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
#3Through the years
When Hodnet’s famous people were born
The 1910s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
SportsScience & MedicinePolitics & LawBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Hodnet is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Hodnet
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Shrewsbury’s, at 180 names.
Questions about famous people from Hodnet
Who is the most famous person from Hodnet?
Tom Bush (English footballer (1914-1969)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come George Campbell Macaulay and Richard Hill.
How many famous people were born in Hodnet?
4 people born in Hodnet have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Hodnet known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 4. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Hodnet?
Rowland Hill, born in 1495. The youngest on the list was born in 1914.
Who counts as from Hodnet?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hodnet’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)
- Richard Hill: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Darwin: Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward German: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lewis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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