Photo: Adrian S Pye · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Halesworth is listed yet
Just 8 mi away, Beccles’ list holds 14 names, Chris Martin the best known. Famous people are on record for 80 of the towns in Suffolk. 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 Halesworth’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Halesworth yet.
Famous people born near Halesworth
The longest list nearby is Beccles’, with 14.
Beccles · 8 miChris Martin & 13 moreMNFramlingham · 11 miMargaret, Duchess of Norfolk & 7 moreDDDitchingham · 9 miDave Deacon & 5 more
Bungay · 8 miSusanna Moodie & 4 more
Saxmundham · 9 miHenry Bright & 4 moreWRLeiston · 10 miWalter Riggs & 2 moreEGWorlingham · 8 miEdward Frank Gillet
Harleston · 10 miHenry WardQuestions about famous people from Halesworth
Who counts as from Halesworth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Halesworth’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 (4)
- Chris Martin: Charltonkyle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Susanna Moodie: Hephaestos at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Bright: Thomas Dewell Scott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Ward: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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