Photo: Amanda Slater from Coventry, England · CC BY-SA 2.0Bawdsey has no famous person on record yet
Just 7 mi away, Woodbridge’s list holds 21 names, Frank Morley the best known. 80 towns across Suffolk can name a famous person born there. Ipswich has the most of any town in Suffolk: 250. After Ipswich, the next longest list in Suffolk is Bury St Edmunds’, with 84.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Bawdsey’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Bawdsey yet.
Famous people born near Bawdsey
Of the towns nearby, Woodbridge lists the most people: 21.
Questions about famous people from Bawdsey
Who counts as from Bawdsey?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bawdsey’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 (3)
- Frank Morley: Alfred Hugh Fisher (1867-1945), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dawn Addams: CBS Television. It was not uncommon for television networks, studios and sponsors of television programs to use either a public relations firm or advertising agency for distribution of publicity mate…, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Eno: How We Get To Next, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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