Photo: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people near Hintlesham: 250 in Ipswich
No famous person on record lists Hintlesham as their birthplace yet. Ipswich has the most of any town in Suffolk: 250. After Ipswich, the next longest list in Suffolk is Bury St Edmunds’, with 84. 80 towns in Suffolk have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hintlesham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hintlesham yet.
Famous people born near Hintlesham
Ipswich leads the towns around it, with 250 names.
Questions about famous people from Hintlesham
Who counts as from Hintlesham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hintlesham’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
- John Constable: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edwin Alderson: Bain News Service (publisher), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet: Leslie Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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