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Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Little Waldingfield, Suffolk
Little Waldingfield has one famous person on record
Samuel Appleton, the military leader, was born in 1625. That places their birth before the Georgians. Their name appears in articles in 2 languages. Nearby, Sudbury, 4 mi away, lists 21, led by Thomas Gainsborough.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Samuel Appleton
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1625
Samuel Appleton
Most common field
Military
1 people
The best known
Born in Little Waldingfield
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Sudbury: 21.
Sudbury · 4 miThomas Gainsborough & 20 more
Long Melford · 4 miWickham Steed & 8 more
Hadleigh · 7 miThomas Woolner & 6 moreRBActon · 2 miRonald Blythe & 2 more
Lavenham · 3 miIsaac Taylor & 2 moreGRClare · 9 miGilbert Fitz Richard & 2 moreFGBildeston · 5 miFrederic Salmon GrowseRSGlemsford · 6 miRichard ScottQuestions about famous people from Little Waldingfield
Who is the most famous person from Little Waldingfield?
Samuel Appleton (military leader) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages.
How many famous people were born in Little Waldingfield?
1 people born in Little Waldingfield have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Little Waldingfield known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 4% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Little Waldingfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Little Waldingfield’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)
- Thomas Gainsborough: Thomas Gainsborough, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wickham Steed: Charles Haslewood Shannon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Woolner: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Isaac Taylor: Chalk drawing by Josiah Gilbert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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