#1Sports
Matthew Upson
born 1979English association football player (born 1979)
47 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Famous people · Eye, Suffolk
Matthew Upson tops a list of 6 famous people born in Eye
At the top of the list is the English association football player Matthew Upson, covered in 47 languages. From Charles Cunningham in 1755 to Stuart O'Keefe in 1991, the births cover 236 years. The list is still growing: 2 were born since 1970. Only 15 of the 80 towns in Suffolk with anyone on record list more.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Matthew Upson
in 47 Wikipedia languages
First
1755
Charles Cunningham
Youngest
1991
Stuart O'Keefe
Most common field
Sports
3 people
What stands out about Eye’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Eye
Two of the three are athletes.
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#2Sports
Stuart O'Keefe
born 1991English association football player (born 1991)
12 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
#3Through the years
When Eye’s famous people were born
The 1970s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
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Known for
What Eye is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 3 people.
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Everyone else born in Eye
Here are 3 more, born from 1755 to 1912.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Diss leads the towns around it, with 8 names.
Diss · 4 miDeclan Rudd & 7 more
Mendlesham · 6 miRobert Brooke-Popham & 2 more
Roydon (South Norfolk) · 5 miBeatrix Havergal & 1 moreMPWalsham le Willows · 9 miMolly Peters & 1 more
Scole · 3 miWilliam Gooderham, Sr.
Dickleburgh · 5 miHenry Walton
Stradbroke · 5 miMary Matilda Betham
Harleston · 8 miHenry WardQuestions about famous people from Eye
Who is the most famous person from Eye?
Matthew Upson (English association football player (born 1979)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 47 languages. Next come Stuart O'Keefe and Brian Capron.
How many famous people were born in Eye?
6 people born in Eye have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Eye known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 6. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Eye?
Charles Cunningham, born in 1755. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Eye?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Eye’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 (10)
- Matthew Upson: Paul Blank, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Stuart O'Keefe: Jon Candy from Cardiff, Wales, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Capron: AnemoneProjectors (on Flickr), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Declan Rudd: Preston_North_End_v_Liverpool_FC_-_July_2013.jpg: Ross Bradley derivative work: Dudek1337, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Brooke-Popham: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Beatrix Havergal: Cecil Beaton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Gooderham, Sr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Walton: Henry Walton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Matilda Betham: Unknown - subject died 1852, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Ward: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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