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Famous people · Long Ashton, Somerset
5 famous people were born in Long Ashton
Articles in 4 languages make the English cricketer Bert Hunt the best known. Close behind are Cuthbert Kempe and Walter Wilde. In the 20th century, 3 were born, the most of any period. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Bert Hunt
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1836
Henry Goulstone
Youngest
1912
Ernie Nicholson
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Long Ashton
Counted by languages, Bert Hunt is ahead of Cuthbert Kempe and Walter Wilde: 4, 3 and 3.
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Through the years
When Long Ashton’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1910s, with 2 people born in that decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Long Ashton is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.6 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Long Ashton
2 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 6 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Long Ashton
Who is the most famous person from Long Ashton?
Bert Hunt (English cricketer (1911-1985)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Cuthbert Kempe and Walter Wilde.
How many famous people were born in Long Ashton?
5 people born in Long Ashton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Long Ashton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 5. That is 80% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Long Ashton?
Henry Goulstone, born in 1836. The youngest on the list was born in 1912.
Who counts as from Long Ashton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Long Ashton’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)
- Henry Goulstone: AmstradNZ, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Dirac: Nobel Foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcus Trescothick: Ngb at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- John Locke: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Heappey: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Judd Trump: Martin Rulsch, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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