#1Famous people · Uttoxeter, Staffordshire
12 famous people come from Uttoxeter, Adam Peaty the best known
Articles in 39 languages make the British swimmer Adam Peaty the best known. Behind the leader come Shane Meadows and Jason Beardsley. The list reaches back to Thomas Allen, born in 1540, one of 3 born before the Georgians. 3 of them were born since 1970.
Born here
12
notable people
Best known
Adam Peaty
in 39 Wikipedia languages
First
1540
Thomas Allen
Youngest
1994
Adam Peaty
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Uttoxeter’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Uttoxeter’s famous people were born
The 1990s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
SportsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageScience & MedicineBusinessMilitaryNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Uttoxeter
Athletes take two of the three places.
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What Uttoxeter is known for
Uttoxeter has 2.8× the usual share of leaders.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Uttoxeter
9 more, 3 of them leaders.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Cheadle has the most people on record, 8 of them.
Questions about famous people from Uttoxeter
Who is the most famous person from Uttoxeter?
Adam Peaty (British swimmer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 39 languages. Next come Shane Meadows and Jason Beardsley.
How many famous people were born in Uttoxeter?
12 people born in Uttoxeter have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 14 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Uttoxeter known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 12. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Uttoxeter?
Thomas Allen, born in 1540. The youngest on the list was born in 1994.
Who counts as from Uttoxeter?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Uttoxeter’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 (10)
- Adam Peaty: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil, CC BY 3.0 br, Wikimedia Commons
- Shane Meadows: Julienmorvan, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jason Beardsley: TuborgLight, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Allen: James Bretherton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner: William Beechey, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Degge: not known ? Daniel and Samuel Lysons, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Kynnersley: Irwin Faris, Public domain, 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
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