Photo: Adrian Cable · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Badingham
The neighbour with the longest list is Framlingham, 3 mi away: 8, led by Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk. Of the famous people on record, none was born in Badingham. Across Suffolk, 80 towns list someone born there. The longest list of any town in Suffolk belongs to Ipswich, with 250.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Badingham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Badingham as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Badingham
Of the towns nearby, Framlingham lists the most people: 8.
Questions about famous people from Badingham
Who counts as from Badingham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Badingham’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 (5)
- Matthew Upson: Paul Blank, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Bright: Thomas Dewell Scott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Eno: How We Get To Next, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Matilda Betham: Unknown - subject died 1852, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Ward: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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