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Photo: Sandy Gerrard · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Radstock, Somerset
3 famous people call Radstock their birthplace
Articles in 5 languages make the English footballer Alick Grant the best known. Close behind are Bill Hyman and Reginald Weaver. Births span 1875 to 1916, from Bill Hyman to Alick Grant. Anita Harris heads the list in Midsomer Norton, 1 mi away, which has 10 names.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Alick Grant
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1875
Bill Hyman
Youngest
1916
Alick Grant
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Radstock
Alick Grant, Bill Hyman and Reginald Weaver are written about in 5, 3 and 2 languages.
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Sports
Reginald Weaver
1905–1970English professional footballer (1905-1970)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Midsomer Norton has the longest list next door: 10.
Questions about famous people from Radstock
Who is the most famous person from Radstock?
Alick Grant (English footballer (1916-2008)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Bill Hyman and Reginald Weaver.
How many famous people were born in Radstock?
3 people born in Radstock have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Radstock known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 3. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Radstock?
Bill Hyman, born in 1875. The youngest on the list was born in 1916.
Who counts as from Radstock?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Radstock’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 (2)
- Anita Harris: SteVader, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rodney Matthews: Rmssmr, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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