Photo: Bernd Jatzwauk Pommes104 · CC BY-SA 3.0Bramfield has yet to put a famous person on the list
Within 10 mi, Beccles lists the most: 14, with Chris Martin first. Across Suffolk, the lists cover 80 towns. Ipswich’s 250 names make the longest list in Suffolk. 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 Bramfield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Bramfield yet.
Famous people born near Bramfield
Of the towns around it, Beccles has the most on record: 14.
Beccles · 10 miChris Martin & 13 more
Aldeburgh · 11 miMillicent Garrett Fawcett & 8 moreMNFramlingham · 10 miMargaret, Duchess of Norfolk & 7 more
Saxmundham · 7 miHenry Bright & 4 more
Bungay · 10 miSusanna Moodie & 4 moreWRLeiston · 8 miWalter Riggs & 2 moreEGWorlingham · 10 miEdward Frank Gillet
Stradbroke · 10 miMary Matilda BethamQuestions about famous people from Bramfield
Who counts as from Bramfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bramfield’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)
- Chris Martin: Charltonkyle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Bright: Thomas Dewell Scott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Susanna Moodie: Hephaestos at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Matilda Betham: Unknown - subject died 1852, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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