#1Famous people · Lakenheath, Suffolk
4 famous people were born in Lakenheath
Articles in 5 languages make the British singer-songwriter Nate James the best known. Behind the leader come Jeremy Gable and Colin Rutterford. Per head, the list is long: 8.8 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Suffolk has 3.3. The biggest group are athletes: 2.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Nate James
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1943
Colin Rutterford
Youngest
1982
Jeremy Gable
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Lakenheath
Nate James leads with articles in 5 languages, ahead of Jeremy Gable (3) and Colin Rutterford (2).
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Through the years
When Lakenheath’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1970s come out on top, with 1 births.
SportsMusicWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Lakenheath is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Lakenheath
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
4 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Lakenheath
Who is the most famous person from Lakenheath?
Nate James (British singer-songwriter) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Jeremy Gable and Colin Rutterford.
How many famous people were born in Lakenheath?
4 people born in Lakenheath have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Lakenheath known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lakenheath?
Colin Rutterford, born in 1943. The youngest on the list was born in 1982.
Who counts as from Lakenheath?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lakenheath’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)
- Nate James: Gill Rickson from London, London, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Gable: Jennnosek, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Merika Coleman: Terri Sewell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Palmer: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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