Ivy House Farmhouse · Photo: Sandy Gerrard · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Gislingham has made the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Diss is 6 mi away: its list has 8, led by Declan Rudd. The longest list of any town in Suffolk belongs to Ipswich, with 250. After Ipswich, the next longest list in Suffolk is Bury St Edmunds’, with 84. Across Suffolk, the lists cover 80 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Gislingham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Gislingham yet.
Famous people born near Gislingham
Around it, Diss has the most people on record, 8 of them.
Diss · 6 miDeclan Rudd & 7 more
Eye · 5 miMatthew Upson & 5 more
Mendlesham · 4 miRobert Brooke-Popham & 2 moreMPWalsham le Willows · 4 miMolly Peters & 1 more
Roydon (South Norfolk) · 6 miBeatrix Havergal & 1 more
Haughley · 7 miKerry Ellis
Scole · 7 miWilliam Gooderham, Sr.NSStowupland · 7 miNeil StacyQuestions about famous people from Gislingham
Who counts as from Gislingham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gislingham’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 (6)
- Declan Rudd: Preston_North_End_v_Liverpool_FC_-_July_2013.jpg: Ross Bradley derivative work: Dudek1337, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Upson: Paul Blank, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Brooke-Popham: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Beatrix Havergal: Cecil Beaton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Ellis: Steve Lawton Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Gooderham, Sr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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