Photo: Michael Roots · CC BY 3.0No famous person born in Crowfield is listed yet
A short trip away, Ipswich (8 mi) counts 250 famous people, Ralph Fiennes among them. In Suffolk, 80 towns have someone on the list. 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 Crowfield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Crowfield yet.
Famous people born near Crowfield
The fullest list close by belongs to Ipswich, with 250.
Ipswich · 8 miRalph Fiennes & 249 moreAPStowmarket · 6 miAmy Pemberton & 9 more
Needham Market · 4 miJune Brown & 2 more
Mendlesham · 6 miRobert Brooke-Popham & 2 more
Claydon · 5 miSir Harry Verney, 2nd BaronetNSStowupland · 6 miNeil StacyBGGrundisburgh · 6 miBartholomew Gosnold
Haughley · 8 miKerry EllisQuestions about famous people from Crowfield
Who counts as from Crowfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Crowfield’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)
- Ralph Fiennes: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- June Brown: Joe Freeman, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Brooke-Popham: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet: Leslie Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Ellis: Steve Lawton Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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