Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0Kirton has no famous person on record yet
A short trip away, Harwich (6 mi) counts 21 famous people, Roy Salvadori among them. The longest list in Suffolk is Ipswich’s, with 250 names. Bury St Edmunds has the second-longest list in Suffolk, after Ipswich, with 84. The Suffolk lists hold names for 80 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Kirton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Kirton yet.
Famous people born near Kirton
The neighbour with the most names is Harwich, at 21.
Questions about famous people from Kirton
Who counts as from Kirton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kirton’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)
- Roy Salvadori: C5813, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Morley: Alfred Hugh Fisher (1867-1945), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dawn Addams: CBS Television. It was not uncommon for television networks, studios and sponsors of television programs to use either a public relations firm or advertising agency for distribution of publicity mate…, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Eno: How We Get To Next, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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