Photo: Bill Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Minsterley has made the famous people list yet
Within 9 mi, Shrewsbury lists the most: 180, with Charles Darwin first. 34 towns in Shropshire have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Shropshire belongs to Shrewsbury, with 180. 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 Minsterley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Minsterley yet.
Famous people born near Minsterley
Shrewsbury has the longest list next door: 180.
Shrewsbury · 9 miCharles Darwin & 179 more
Welshpool · 9 miMichael Jones & 17 more
Church Stretton · 9 miJohn Thynne & 2 more
Bayston Hill · 7 miViolet Bland & 1 more
Bishop's Castle · 11 miAlbert Howard & 1 moreDPBaschurch · 11 miDave Pountney & 1 more
Pontesbury · 2 miWilliam Crump
Llanymynech · 12 miRichard RobertsQuestions about famous people from Minsterley
Who counts as from Minsterley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Minsterley’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 (7)
- Charles Darwin: Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Jones: Alaric Favier, CC BY-SA 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
- Albert Howard: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Crump: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Roberts: Edward Villiers Rippingille (Life time: 1798–1859), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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