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Science & Medicine
Frederic Salmon Growse
1836–1893British scholar and civil servant in North-Western Provinces, India
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Photo: Trevor Harris · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Bildeston, Suffolk
Bildeston has just one famous person to its name: Frederic Salmon Growse
Frederic Salmon Growse came into the world in 1836. Their birth falls in the Georgian era. 4 languages have an article about them. Of its neighbours, Stowmarket, 7 mi away, lists the most: 10, Amy Pemberton first.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Frederic Salmon Growse
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1836
Frederic Salmon Growse
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 people
The best known
Born in Bildeston
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Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Stowmarket’s, with 10.
Questions about famous people from Bildeston
Who is the most famous person from Bildeston?
Frederic Salmon Growse (British scholar and civil servant in North-Western Provinces, India) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages.
How many famous people were born in Bildeston?
1 people born in Bildeston have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bildeston known for?
Among its famous people, scientists and doctors: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 7% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Bildeston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bildeston’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).
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- Thomas Woolner: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isaac Taylor: Chalk drawing by Josiah Gilbert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- June Brown: Joe Freeman, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Ellis: Steve Lawton Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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