#1Famous people · Barton Mills, Suffolk
Barton Mills, birthplace of the British politician Richard Balfe
Richard Balfe, the British politician, was born in 1944. That places their birth in the 20th century. 7 languages have an article about them. Just 8 mi away, Newmarket’s list holds 29 names, W. T. Tutte the best known.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Richard Balfe
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1944
Richard Balfe
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 people
The best known
Born in Barton Mills
#1Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Newmarket: 29.
Questions about famous people from Barton Mills
Who is the most famous person from Barton Mills?
Richard Balfe (British politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages.
How many famous people were born in Barton Mills?
1 people born in Barton Mills have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Barton Mills known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Barton Mills?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Barton Mills’ 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)
- Richard Balfe: Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nate James: Gill Rickson from London, London, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Pope: Charltonkyle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Merika Coleman: Terri Sewell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dick Parry: Stephen D. Strowes from San Francisco, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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