Photo: Martinevans123 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people born near Woore
Joseph Cook tops the 131 names on record in Newcastle-under-Lyme, 8 mi away. Not one famous person on record comes from Woore yet. In all of Shropshire, the famous people on record come from 34 towns. The longest list of any town in Shropshire belongs to Shrewsbury, with 180.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Woore’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Woore yet.
Famous people born near Woore
Nearby, Newcastle-under-Lyme has the most on record, with 131.
Newcastle-under-Lyme · 8 miJoseph Cook & 130 more
Market Drayton · 6 miJohn Lewis & 5 more
Audley · 7 miFred Buck & 4 morePEAudlem · 4 miPeter Ellson & 2 more
Madeley · 3 miNathan Smith & 1 moreBJHalmer End and Alsagers Bank · 6 miBen Jones & 1 moreWSKeele · 6 miWilliam Donovan StamerJSShavington · 6 miJeff SpencerQuestions about famous people from Woore
Who counts as from Woore?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Woore’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)
- Joseph Cook: Norman Victor Herfort, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Lewis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Buck: Downingman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Smith: EchetusXe, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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