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Sports
Colin Campbell
1887–1955British field hockey player, born 1887
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Famous people · Rocester, Staffordshire
6 famous people were born in Rocester from 1562 to 1994
Colin Campbell is the best known, with articles in 12 languages. In the Victorian era, 3 were born, the most of any period. The list’s best known name, Colin Campbell, dates from 1887. Fewer than a quarter of the 59 towns in Staffordshire with famous people list more.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Colin Campbell
in 12 Wikipedia languages
First
1562
Elizabeth Trentham, Countess of Oxford
Youngest
1994
Ryan Boot
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Rocester
Two of the three are athletes.
#2Military
Charles Lyon
1878–1959English soldier & cricketer (1878-1959)
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Through the years
When Rocester’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1870s, at 2.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Rocester is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as athletes, at 1.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Rocester
Of the other 3, 2 are athletes.
Elizabeth Trentham, Countess of Oxford
1562–16122nd wife of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
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Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Uttoxeter has the most people on record, 12 of them.
Uttoxeter · 4 miAdam Peaty & 11 more
Cheadle · 7 miMary Adela Blagg & 7 moreJDTutbury · 9 miJohn Henry Davies & 3 moreABBlythe Bridge and Forsbrook · 10 miArthur Bridgett & 2 more
Abbots Bromley · 9 miStephen Smith & 1 more
Mayfield · 5 miBertram Coghill Alan Windle
Brailsford · 9 miTom HarrisonHMHilton · 10 miHerbert MasseyQuestions about famous people from Rocester
Who is the most famous person from Rocester?
Colin Campbell (British field hockey player, born 1887) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 12 languages. Next come Charles Lyon and Ryan Boot.
How many famous people were born in Rocester?
6 people born in Rocester have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Rocester known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 6. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rocester?
Elizabeth Trentham, Countess of Oxford, born in 1562. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Rocester?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rocester’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)
- Charles Lyon: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Peaty: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Adela Blagg: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Smith: The photographer was H.J. Whitlock of Birmingham, who died in 1918., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bertram Coghill Alan Windle: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Harrison: unknown (studio photographer?), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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