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Photo: Neil Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Pill, Somerset
4 famous people call Pill their birthplace
Most widely known is George E. Hunt, the English cricketer, with articles in 5 languages. The cricketer William Bunce ranks second, ahead of Percy Wakefield. Percy Wakefield, born in 1888, is the earliest name and William Bunce, born in 1911, the latest. Per head, the list is long: 8.1 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Somerset has 4.9.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
George E. Hunt
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1888
Percy Wakefield
Youngest
1911
William Bunce
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Pill
Ranked by languages covered: George E. Hunt with 5, then William Bunce with 3 and Percy Wakefield with 2.
WB#2
PW#3
Everyone
Everyone else born in Pill
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 4 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Pill
Who is the most famous person from Pill?
George E. Hunt (English cricketer (1896-1959)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come William Bunce and Percy Wakefield.
How many famous people were born in Pill?
4 people born in Pill have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Pill known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 4. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Pill?
Percy Wakefield, born in 1888. The youngest on the list was born in 1911.
Who counts as from Pill?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Pill’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 (3)
- Paul Dirac: Nobel Foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Heappey: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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