#1Famous people · Ixworth, Suffolk
2 famous people come from Ixworth, Guy Simonds the best known
Most widely known is Guy Simonds, the Canadian general, with articles in 19 languages. Joy Marshall is the only other name on the list. The neighbour with the longest list is Bury St Edmunds, 6 mi away: 84, led by Bob Hoskins. Over 36 years of births, the list goes from Joy Marshall (1867) to Guy Simonds (1903).
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Guy Simonds
in 19 Wikipedia languages
First
1867
Joy Marshall
Youngest
1903
Guy Simonds
Most common field
Military
1 people
The best known
Born in Ixworth
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Faith
Joy Marshall
1867–1903English-born New Zealand Anglican clergyman and school teacher (1867-1903)
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Known for
What Ixworth is known for
The largest field is Military, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Bury St Edmunds has the most on record: 84.
Questions about famous people from Ixworth
Who is the most famous person from Ixworth?
Guy Simonds (Canadian general (1903–1974)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 19 languages. Next come Joy Marshall.
How many famous people were born in Ixworth?
2 people born in Ixworth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ixworth known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 4% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ixworth?
Joy Marshall, born in 1867. The youngest on the list was born in 1903.
Who counts as from Ixworth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ixworth’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)
- Guy Simonds: Canadian government employee, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Hoskins: Bob hoskins filming ruby blue.jpg: James Laurence Stewart derivative work: KoS, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Paine: Auguste Millière / After George Romney / After William Sharp, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Ellis: Steve Lawton Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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