Photo: Chemical Engineer · CC BY-SA 4.0Oxspring has no famous person on record yet
Penistone, 1 mi away, has 8 on its list, the best known Kate Rusby. No town in South Yorkshire lists more than Sheffield, with 1,191. After Sheffield, the next longest list in South Yorkshire is Doncaster’s, with 278. Across South Yorkshire, the lists cover 54 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Oxspring’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Oxspring yet.
Famous people born near Oxspring
Of the towns around it, Penistone has the most on record: 8.
Penistone · 1 miKate Rusby & 7 more
Stocksbridge · 2 miChris Wilder & 6 more
Barugh Green and Redbrook · 5 miNorman Yardley & 3 more
Denby Dale · 5 miPaul Copley & 2 morePHDodworth · 4 miPat Howard & 1 more
Thurgoland · 2 miEugene EsmondePMSilkstone Common · 2 miPeter Milner
Thurlstone · 2 miNicholas SaundersonQuestions about famous people from Oxspring
Who counts as from Oxspring?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Oxspring’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 (6)
- Kate Rusby: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Wilder: http://www.oufc.co.uk/, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Norman Yardley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Copley: Mahmoud Osman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eugene Esmonde: Beadell, S J (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicholas Saunderson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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