Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Bedfield is on the famous people list yet
Go 4 mi to Framlingham and the list grows to 8, with Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk at the top. Famous people are on record for 80 of the towns in Suffolk. The longest list in Suffolk is Ipswich’s, with 250 names. Bury St Edmunds has the second-longest list in Suffolk, after Ipswich, with 84.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Bedfield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Bedfield yet.
Famous people born near Bedfield
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Eye · 7 miMatthew Upson & 5 more
Saxmundham · 10 miHenry Bright & 4 more
Mendlesham · 7 miRobert Brooke-Popham & 2 more
Stradbroke · 5 miMary Matilda BethamAWWickham Market · 8 miAnne Walker
Scole · 9 miWilliam Gooderham, Sr.BGGrundisburgh · 10 miBartholomew GosnoldQuestions about famous people from Bedfield
Who counts as from Bedfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bedfield’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
- Robert Brooke-Popham: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Matilda Betham: Unknown - subject died 1852, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Gooderham, Sr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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