Photo: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people near Hessett: 84 in Bury St Edmunds
No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Hessett. Famous people are on record for 80 of the towns in Suffolk. Ipswich has the most of any town in Suffolk: 250. The best known born in Bury St Edmunds is Bob Hoskins.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hessett’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hessett yet.
Famous people born near Hessett
Nearby, Bury St Edmunds has the most on record, with 84.
Questions about famous people from Hessett
Who counts as from Hessett?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hessett’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)
- Bob Hoskins: Bob hoskins filming ruby blue.jpg: James Laurence Stewart derivative work: KoS, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Isaac Taylor: Chalk drawing by Josiah Gilbert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Simonds: Canadian government employee, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Ellis: Steve Lawton Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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