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Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Hopton, Suffolk
Bill Aston is the only name on the Hopton list
The British racing driver Bill Aston was born in 1900. Their birth falls in the Victorian era. Readers can find them written up in 17 languages. For more famous names, Thetford is 8 mi away: its list has 15, led by Thomas Paine.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Bill Aston
in 17 Wikipedia languages
First
1900
Bill Aston
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Hopton
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Thetford has the longest list next door: 15.
Questions about famous people from Hopton
Who is the most famous person from Hopton?
Bill Aston (British racing driver (1900-1974)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 17 languages.
How many famous people were born in Hopton?
1 people born in Hopton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 2 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Hopton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Hopton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hopton’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)
- Thomas Paine: Auguste Millière / After George Romney / After William Sharp, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Declan Rudd: Preston_North_End_v_Liverpool_FC_-_July_2013.jpg: Ross Bradley derivative work: Dudek1337, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Simonds: Canadian government employee, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Beatrix Havergal: Cecil Beaton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Gooderham, Sr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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