Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Snailbeach yet, but Shrewsbury next door has 180
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. Across Shropshire, 34 towns list someone born there. The best known born in Shrewsbury is Charles Darwin.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Snailbeach’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Snailbeach yet.
Famous people born near Snailbeach
Close by, the fullest list is Shrewsbury’s, at 180 names.
Questions about famous people from Snailbeach
Who counts as from Snailbeach?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Snailbeach’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)
- 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
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