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Dave Booth
born 1948English football player and manager (born 1948)
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Famous people · Darton, South Yorkshire
11 famous people from Darton, many of them athletes
The best known is the English football player and manager Dave Booth, with articles in 6 languages. The footballer Ian Butler ranks second, ahead of Jack Grainger. The largest group, 10, was born in the 20th century. For every 10,000 residents there are 7.3 on the list, well above the typical South Yorkshire town’s 3.3.
Born here
11
notable people
Best known
Dave Booth
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1758
Thomas Richard Beaumont
Youngest
1957
Wayne Goldthorpe
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Darton’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Darton is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.7 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Darton
First, Dave Booth (6 languages), then Ian Butler (5) and Jack Grainger (5).
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Through the years
When Darton’s famous people were born
The 1940s saw the most births of any decade: 5.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Darton
Of the other 8, 6 are athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Cudworth and Shafton, with 8.
Cudworth and Shafton · 4 miDorothy Hyman & 7 more
Barugh Green and Redbrook · 1 miNorman Yardley & 3 moreASBarnsley · 3 miArnie Sidebottom & 3 morePHDodworth · 3 miPat Howard & 1 moreMGCrigglestone and Durkar · 4 miMalcolm Graham & 1 moreJBClayton West and Scissett · 4 miJohn Battye & 1 moreGDCarlton · 3 miGeorge DonkinPMSilkstone Common · 4 miPeter MilnerQuestions about famous people from Darton
Who is the most famous person from Darton?
Dave Booth (English football player and manager (born 1948)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Ian Butler and Jack Grainger.
How many famous people were born in Darton?
11 people born in Darton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 12 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Darton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 9 of the 11. That is 82% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Darton?
Thomas Richard Beaumont, born in 1758. The youngest on the list was born in 1957.
Who counts as from Darton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Darton’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)
- Thomas Richard Beaumont: Wikimandia, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dorothy Hyman: Mario De Biassi/Angelo Cozzi (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norman Yardley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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