Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Great Blakenham
Ralph Fiennes tops the 250 names on record in Ipswich, 5 mi away. No famous person’s birth in Great Blakenham is on record yet. The longest list in Suffolk is Ipswich’s, with 250 names. 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 Great Blakenham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Great Blakenham yet.
Famous people born near Great Blakenham
Close by, the fullest list is Ipswich’s, at 250 names.
Ipswich · 5 miRalph Fiennes & 249 moreAPStowmarket · 7 miAmy Pemberton & 9 more
Hadleigh · 7 miThomas Woolner & 6 more
Needham Market · 4 miJune Brown & 2 more
Claydon · 1 miSir Harry Verney, 2nd BaronetBGGrundisburgh · 6 miBartholomew GosnoldNSStowupland · 7 miNeil Stacy
Capel St Mary · 8 miEdwin AldersonQuestions about famous people from Great Blakenham
Who counts as from Great Blakenham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Great Blakenham’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
- Thomas Woolner: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- June Brown: Joe Freeman, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet: Leslie Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edwin Alderson: Bain News Service (publisher), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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