Photo: Peter Wood · CC BY-SA 2.0Ruyton-XI-Towns has no famous person on record yet
For more famous names, Shrewsbury is 9 mi away: its list has 180, led by Charles Darwin. Across Shropshire, 34 towns list someone born there. 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 Ruyton-XI-Towns’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Ruyton-XI-Towns as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Ruyton-XI-Towns
The longest list nearby is Shrewsbury’s, with 180.
Questions about famous people from Ruyton-XI-Towns
Who counts as from Ruyton-XI-Towns?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ruyton-XI-Towns’ 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)
- Charles Darwin: Herbert Rose Barraud, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wilfred Owen: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eglantyne Jebbs: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Roberts: Edward Villiers Rippingille (Life time: 1798–1859), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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