Photo: Richard Croft · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Greasbrough has made the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Rotherham, 2 mi away: 214, led by Howard Webb. The longest list in South Yorkshire is Sheffield’s, with 1,191 names. Doncaster has the second-longest list in South Yorkshire, after Sheffield, with 278. 54 of the towns in South Yorkshire list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Greasbrough’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Greasbrough yet.
Famous people born near Greasbrough
The most names next door are in Rotherham: 214.
Rotherham · 2 miHoward Webb & 213 moreBBSwinton · 3 miBert Barlow & 23 more
Rawmarsh · 2 miPeter Elliott & 17 moreCGWath upon Dearne · 3 miCyril Grant & 14 moreBHHoyland · 4 miBarry Hines & 9 more
Thrybergh and Dalton · 3 miPaul Shane & 7 more
Brinsworth · 3 miRon Hillyard & 2 moreDCWickersley and Bramley · 4 miDavid CarverQuestions about famous people from Greasbrough
Who counts as from Greasbrough?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Greasbrough’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 (4)
- Howard Webb: Katie Chan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Elliott: Joe Mann, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Shane: Jonathan Parramint, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Hillyard: ChrisTheDude at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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