Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Kesgrave has yet to put a famous person on the list
Just 4 mi away, Ipswich’s list holds 250 names, Ralph Fiennes the best known. The longest list in Suffolk is Ipswich’s, with 250 names. After Ipswich, the next longest list in Suffolk is Bury St Edmunds’, with 84. Across Suffolk, the lists cover 80 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Kesgrave’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Kesgrave yet.
Famous people born near Kesgrave
Close by, the fullest list is Ipswich’s, at 250 names.
Questions about famous people from Kesgrave
Who counts as from Kesgrave?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kesgrave’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)
- Ralph Fiennes: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Morley: Alfred Hugh Fisher (1867-1945), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Eno: How We Get To Next, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet: Leslie Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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