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Famous people · Flax Bourton, Somerset
3 famous people were born in Flax Bourton
Articles in 5 languages make the army officer Roland Gibbs the best known. Harry Chidgey is second and Osbert Mordaunt third. Of its neighbours, Bristol, 6 mi away, lists the most: 1,371, Paul Dirac first. From Osbert Mordaunt in 1876 to Roland Gibbs in 1921, the births cover 45 years.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Roland Gibbs
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1876
Osbert Mordaunt
Youngest
1921
Roland Gibbs
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Flax Bourton
Counted by languages, Roland Gibbs is ahead of Harry Chidgey and Osbert Mordaunt: 5, 4 and 3.
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Known for
What Flax Bourton is known for
Share of Flax Bourton’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Bristol: 1,371.
Questions about famous people from Flax Bourton
Who is the most famous person from Flax Bourton?
Roland Gibbs (army officer (1921-2004)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Harry Chidgey and Osbert Mordaunt.
How many famous people were born in Flax Bourton?
3 people born in Flax Bourton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Flax Bourton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Flax Bourton?
Osbert Mordaunt, born in 1876. The youngest on the list was born in 1921.
Who counts as from Flax Bourton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Flax Bourton’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)
- Harry Chidgey: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Dirac: Nobel Foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jan Morris: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Locke: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Heappey: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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