Photo: Windeh · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people near Hellaby: 214 in Rotherham
The list for Hellaby is empty for now. Famous people are on record for 54 of the towns in South Yorkshire. Sheffield’s 1,191 names make the longest list in South Yorkshire. After Sheffield, the next longest list in South Yorkshire is Doncaster’s, with 278.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hellaby’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hellaby yet.
Famous people born near Hellaby
The fullest list close by belongs to Rotherham, with 214.
Rotherham · 5 miHoward Webb & 213 more
Maltby · 1 miLiam Kirk & 21 moreJBDenaby Main · 5 miJack Barker & 11 more
Conisbrough · 4 miRichard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge & 9 more
Thrybergh and Dalton · 3 miPaul Shane & 7 moreDJDinnington · 4 miDick Neal, Jr. & 7 moreAMThurcroft · 2 miArthur Morton & 4 moreWQNorth Anston · 4 miWally Quinton & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Hellaby
Who counts as from Hellaby?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hellaby’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
- Liam Kirk: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Shane: Jonathan Parramint, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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