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Park Farmhouse · Photo: Sandy Gerrard · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Glemsford, Suffolk
One famous person was born in Glemsford
The colonial Rhode Island settler Richard Scott was born in 1605. Their birth falls before the Georgians. Readers can find them written up in one language. A short trip away, Sudbury (5 mi) counts 21 famous people, Thomas Gainsborough among them.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Richard Scott
in 1 Wikipedia languages
First
1605
Richard Scott
The best known
Born in Glemsford
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Famous people from the towns next door
5 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Glemsford
Who is the most famous person from Glemsford?
Richard Scott (colonial Rhode Island settler) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Glemsford?
1 people born in Glemsford have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who counts as from Glemsford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Glemsford’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 (3)
- Thomas Gainsborough: Thomas Gainsborough, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wickham Steed: Charles Haslewood Shannon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isaac Taylor: Chalk drawing by Josiah Gilbert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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