#1Famous people · Bungay, Suffolk
The 5 famous people born in Bungay, led by Susanna Moodie
Articles in 17 languages make the Canadian writer Susanna Moodie the best known. The English cricketer John Jackson ranks second, ahead of Elizabeth Bonhôte. The largest group, 5, was born in the Georgian era. Born in 1744, Elizabeth Bonhôte is the first name on record, and John Jackson, born in 1833, the most recent.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Susanna Moodie
in 17 Wikipedia languages
First
1744
Elizabeth Bonhôte
Youngest
1833
John Jackson
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
What stands out about Bungay’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Bungay’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1800s, at 1.
Writing & ArtsSportsNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Bungay
Writers and artists take two of the three places.
#1JJ#2
EB#3
Writing & Arts
Elizabeth Bonhôte
1744–1818English novelist, essayist and poet, 1744–1818
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What Bungay is known for
Set against the usual town, writers and artists come out 5.2 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bungay
Here are 2 more, born from 1769 to 1790.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Beccles has the longest list next door: 14.
Beccles · 5 miChris Martin & 13 moreDDDitchingham · 1 miDave Deacon & 5 moreABLoddon · 6 miAnn Charlotte Bartholomew & 3 moreEGWorlingham · 6 miEdward Frank GilletSBChedgrave · 6 miSir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 3rd Baronet
Harleston · 7 miHenry WardMBLong Stratton · 9 miMargaret Lumley Brown
Poringland · 9 miRonan ParkeQuestions about famous people from Bungay
Who is the most famous person from Bungay?
Susanna Moodie (Canadian writer (1803–1885)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 17 languages. Next come John Jackson and Elizabeth Bonhôte.
How many famous people were born in Bungay?
5 people born in Bungay have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 11 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bungay known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 3 of the 5. That is 60% of the town’s list, against 12% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bungay?
Elizabeth Bonhôte, born in 1744. The youngest on the list was born in 1833.
Who counts as from Bungay?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bungay’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)
- Susanna Moodie: Hephaestos at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Miller: Print made by: J. D. Engleheart Printed by: Charles Joseph Hullmandel Published by: Colnaghi Published by: Molteno Published by: William Smith the elder, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Martin: Charltonkyle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Ward: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ronan Parke: Lee Morgan, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.