Photo: TCExplorer · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Longden is on the famous people list yet
Of its neighbours, Shrewsbury, 5 mi away, lists the most: 180, Charles Darwin first. 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 across Shropshire can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Longden’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Longden yet.
Famous people born near Longden
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Longden, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Longden
Who counts as from Longden?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Longden’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)
- Charles Darwin: Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Beard: UC3M (youtube), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Thynne: Public domain, 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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